A major part of training is the owner's side of the learning process. If you do not have much experience training a dog then just sending the dog to a trainer for a couple of weeks is not going to help you a lot.
It is really important that you find a trainer that will train you on how to train the dog. If you do not know how to teach and reinforce the behaviors you want your pet to learn then your dog is not going to advance. You have to establish the means of communication with the pet that is needed to get across to him what is expected. Dogs do not come to us with the ability to understand our language and they can't read our minds either so it is up to us to teach the dog what it's boundaries are and what the behavior is that we expect of them.
I would say $500.00 is an awful lot to pay for boarding services. You might better find a good place for your dog to stay while you are on vacation and then when you get home start learning how to train your dog. Anything you do at a class needs to be done at home multiple times throughout the day in order to reinforce what you both are learning. |