Phase Two

What does Phase Two look like?

Phase Two is where we start the heavy public work. By now our dogs are at least 6 months old and can start to be asked to focus much more in public. They are taken out daily to test their skills and work though issues that present themselves. Please read here (AKC Canine Good Citizen Urban) for the testing requirements to graduate this phase of training.

What does that look like in our program?

By this time, we should have dogs that enjoy going out in public each day and are building their skills to be outstanding and so well behaved. A big part of the work we do in this Phase is acclimating all those behaviors that we learned in the last Phase to even busier environments and developing impulse control in the dog. We continue working on heel, solidify our sit and down, lengthen our stay in both the sit and down position, continue proper greetings, amp up our recovery time when distracted or startled, get loading and unloading from a vehicle under control, work heavily on handler focus and continue building these dogs into Service Dogs.

Our dogs will continue to build up their skills for tasking during this time. ESD trainers will have the dog’s tasks working and integrating them into public. This is often the best phase to purchase your dog from Errorless SD's in. This way we can start customizing the task work to your specifically handling needs while we work them in public.

In this 16-week period our trainers are putting in the same 200 hours of active training with the dogs. This leaves our dogs with 400 hours of active work done by the end of this phase. This price for this Phase is $12,920 and will be tested by a third-party trainer in a very busy city environment.

Phase Two Overview:

• Cost of Phase Two: $12,920
• Training Length: 16 Weeks
• Training Hours: 200
• AKC Title Tested: AKC Canine Good Citizen Urban Test
• Phase Focus: Socialization, House Work, Basic Commands, Heavy Emphasis on Public Work and Gaining Comfort in Different Environments