Raise a confident, well-mannered puppy with the marker method, at home, a few minutes at a time.

Follow the order. It matters.

A note from your trainers: this course is built like a ladder. Every exercise uses skills your puppy picked up in the ones before it. We highly recommend working through the exercises in order, and staying with each one until your puppy is solid before moving on to the next. Some days that will feel slow. It's genuinely the fastest way for a puppy to learn. Two exceptions in Obedience: Stay and Settle need the place cue, so do Exercise 17 · Place bed before them; Wait uses the crate cue from Exercise 16. One more thing before you start: the words are yours to choose, and the only rule that matters is that you stay consistent and that everyone in the house uses the same ones. We teach "yes" to mean the exercise is finished and the reward is coming, "good" to mean hold what you are doing while the food comes to you, and "okay" as the release that tells your puppy they are off duty. Agree your words with everyone who trains this puppy, including your walker and trainer, because a puppy is learning from all of you at once.