FINE-TUNED CANINES Board and Train program puppy graduate, Jackson, the Golden Retriever male. Fine-tuned Canines offers Board and Train dog training services for puppies in Southwest Florida.We fine-tuned another dog! This time it was our pleasure to work with a young Golden Retriever puppy named Jackson, who was between 4 and 5 months old at the time we started his training. Jackson successfully graduated from our FINE-TUNED CANINES Board and Train program and enjoyed the whole learning experience. He made new friends, got lots of proper socializing experiences and had fun while learning good canine manners.

Jackson is a good example of a young dog who benefited a lot from early training. His owners are great role models because they are responsible dog owners and pack leaders who provided their puppy with a good education that equipped him with great life skills. Jackson is a pup with lots of curiosity and we were happy to be able to enhance that curiosity and instill in him the desire to learn. Dogs are animals of great intelligence, and only when we humans help them to develop their abilities and potential can they truly blossom like this little pup Jackson did.

As you can see in the graduate photo, Jackson takes his education very seriously too. ;) He learned that good behaviors make his human pack leaders happy and that makes him proud of himself and his achievements.

Dogs are never too young to learn (or too old). The earlier a pup starts to learn, the more proper behaviors he will learn and the sooner he'll become a well-mannered and balanced companion who is a joy to live with and be around.

More about Jackson and his achievements soon...so stay fine-tuned!

Fine-tuned Canines Board and Train puppy graduate, Jackson (Golden Retriever male pup), already working on his retrieving skills. Here he's proudly holding a newspaper.

Lexi (FINE-TUNED CANINES) socializing a young Golden Retriever pup during his Board and Train program in Southwest Florida.Socializing a puppy is a lot of fun. Everything is new and every experience is fresh... A good pack leader shares the experiences about the world, very much like a mother dog would teach her young pups about the environment. 

I truly enjoy seeing all kinds of expressions on a puppy face when he or she discovers new things in their life: new smells, sounds, images, social situations, etc.

Dogs are very social animals and they need to be gradually and properly exposed to a number of various social situations. 

During FINE-TUNED CANINES Board and Train program we provide dogs of all ages with proper socializing experiences and we carefully supervise the type of social experiences that are beneficial to each of our canine boarding school students. Board and train canine students experience new things and discover the world in a balanced way.

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This Golden Retriever puppy is full of curiosity and is getting lots of proper social experiences during his Board and Train program with FINE-TUNED CANINES.

Chopper is presenting to his fellow canines the fine-tuned way of walking on a treadmill. Dogs learn a lot from each other just by observation and mimicking that's why it's so important to show them what we DO want for them to do so they have a good role model (you, the pack leader) to follow. 

Our Board and Train canine students can take a full advantage of the "canine gym" and treadmill exercise. Even when it is hot and humid outside, we make sure that the Board and Train canine students receive their needed physical exercise. Treadmill exercise also provides dogs with mental stimulation and improves their ability to focus.This movie is showing Brodie, the Board and Train brilliant student, who is enjoying his treadmill exercise in the air-conditioned room, with additional personal fan and his very own human-canine cheer leading team: Lexi (his trainer) and his 2 canine friends: Shakti and Chopper. Go Brodie go! :)

Read Lexi Hayden's article "Keeping your dog fit during summer heat"