Advanced Obedience
Higher Skills, Greater Focus & Real-World Reliability
For Dogs Ready to Take Their Training to the Next Level
Knowing a command is one thing. Responding reliably when life gets exciting, distracting, or unpredictable is another!
Our Advanced Obedience program is designed for dogs who already understand their foundational obedience skills but are ready to develop greater reliability, focus, responsiveness, and self-control in real-world environments.
This program takes the behaviors your dog already knows and strengthens them through increased duration, distance, distraction, and progressively more challenging situations.
Our goal is to move beyond simply performing commands at home and develop dependable skills that become a natural part of everyday life.
What Your Dog Will Learn
Over 8 private training lessons, we'll build upon your dog's existing foundation and progressively develop more advanced obedience and real-world skills, including:
Advanced Obedience & Duration: Extended sit, down, place, and stay commands with increased duration, distance, and distractions.
Advanced Recall & Emergency Recall: Strengthening response to recall cues, developing emergency recall, and building reliability around competing distractions.
Distance Commands & Handler Responsiveness: Practicing obedience cues from greater distances while maintaining focus and responsiveness.
Advanced Leash Skills & Heel Work: Refining loose-leash walking, introducing or strengthening heel and switch, and developing controlled movement in different environments.
Impulse Control & Self-Regulation: Improving patience, emotional control, and the ability to remain composed in exciting or distracting situations.
Environmental Neutrality & Handler Engagement: Maintaining focus and appropriate behavior around people, other dogs, unfamiliar environments, and everyday activity.
Real-World Proofing: Strengthening obedience in progressively more challenging locations, situations, and distractions.
Off-Leash Foundations & Reliability: Introducing appropriate off-leash preparation through long-line work, distance training, distraction proofing, and reliable responsiveness when safe and suitable.
As your dog progresses, we'll begin transferring learned behaviors beyond familiar training environments and into appropriate real-world settings.
Whether you're walking through town, visiting a park, navigating public spaces, or exploring somewhere new, our goal is to help your dog understand that the same expectations apply regardless of the environment.
Off-leash training is introduced only when appropriate for your dog's abilities, reliability, and safety. Rather than rushing to remove the leash, we progressively build the skills needed for greater freedom while teaching you how to recognize when your dog is ready.
Every dog progresses differently. Training difficulty is increased according to your dog's individual abilities, confidence, and demonstrated reliability—not simply because we've reached a certain lesson.
We build the next level only when your dog is ready for it.
Your Training Package Includes
8 Private Training Lessons, including your initial in-home assessment and first training session.
Complimentary 30-Minute Initial Phone Consultation to discuss your dog's existing skills, training history, and advanced training goals.
Cedar Creek Advanced Training Kit with equipment and tools to support advanced training and real-world proofing.
Individualized Advanced Training Plan & Homework designed around your dog's current abilities and progress.
Real-World Training & Progressive Proofing in appropriate environments as your dog develops greater reliability.
Owner Education & Ongoing Support to help you maintain consistency, reinforce skills, and continue building success between lessons.
Personal Client Portal Access to manage appointments, follow progress, access educational resources, and communicate with your trainer.
How to Get Started — Our 3-Step Training Process
STEP 1 — Initial Phone Consultation (30 Minutes)
Every successful training journey begins with understanding your dog!
Your first required appointment is a 30-minute phone consultation where we'll discuss your dog's training history, existing obedience skills, current reliability, everyday challenges, and your goals for advanced training.
We'll also discuss any behavioral concerns, safety considerations, and the environments or situations where you'd like to see greater reliability.
This conversation helps us determine your dog's current foundation and prepare for the initial in-home assessment.
This consultation is included in your purchased package at no additional fee.
STEP 2 — In-Home Assessment & Initial Training Session (2–2.5 Hours)
Your first in-home appointment is where we begin evaluating your dog's current skills and building a plan for the next level!
During this visit, we'll conduct an in-depth assessment of your dog's temperament, training history, foundational obedience, handler engagement, impulse control, and responsiveness.
We'll evaluate existing skills, identify areas requiring additional strengthening, and determine an appropriate starting point for advanced training.
We'll then begin hands-on training, introduce appropriate progression exercises, and establish an individualized plan for building greater reliability.
Your appointment includes approximately:
1 hour of consultation and training assessment.
1 hour of hands-on training.
Additional time for questions, recommendations, and planning.
This appointment counts as Lesson 1 of your 8-lesson package. No additional assessment fee is required.
STEP 3 — Remaining Training Sessions
After completing your Initial Phone Consultation and In-Home Assessment, you may begin scheduling your 7 remaining private training lessons.
Each session builds upon previously introduced skills while progressively increasing duration, distance, distractions, and overall difficulty.
As your dog demonstrates readiness, training may expand into appropriate real-world environments to strengthen reliability beyond the home.
We'll focus on refining obedience, improving handler communication, strengthening impulse control, and developing dependable responses in increasingly challenging situations.
Off-leash preparation and advanced proofing will be introduced when appropriate, with safety and demonstrated reliability guiding each progression.
Training will move at a pace appropriate for your dog's individual abilities, confidence, and performance.
Important Booking Information: All appointments must be completed in order. Your Initial Phone Consultation (Step 1) must be completed before your In-Home Assessment (Step 2), and both must be completed before beginning your Remaining Training Sessions (Step 3).
Your Cedar Creek Client Portal
Once you've completed your package purchase, you'll receive an email with instructions for accessing your personal Cedar Creek Client Portal.
Your portal serves as your central hub for everything related to your dog's training journey!
Through your portal, you'll be able to:
Schedule & Manage Appointments: Book upcoming training sessions and keep track of your schedule.
Monitor Training Progress: Follow your dog's development, accomplishments, and advanced training milestones.
Review Session Information: Access training updates, notes, and recommendations.
Access Personalized Homework: Review advanced training exercises and practice assignments between lessons.
Explore Educational Resources: Read helpful handouts, training guides, and informational materials.
Communicate With Your Trainer: Send messages, ask questions, and receive guidance throughout your program.
Your portal makes it easier to stay organized, involved, and informed throughout your dog's advanced training experience.
Ready to Take Your Dog's Training to the Next Level?
Advanced Obedience is about more than teaching additional commands. It's about developing the consistency, communication, and reliability needed to make your dog's existing skills truly useful in everyday life.
To Get Started: Select Advanced Obedience, complete your package purchase, and watch for your client portal welcome email with instructions for scheduling your first required appointment.
Please note: Purchasing your package does not automatically schedule your appointments. All training appointments must be scheduled separately through your client portal and completed in the required order.
8 Private Lessons • 30-Minute Phone Consultation • Advanced Training Kit Included • Real-World Proofing • Personalized Homework • Client Portal Access • Ongoing Owner Support
Higher skills. Greater focus. Real-world reliability.
Higher Skills, Greater Focus & Real-World Reliability
For Dogs Ready to Take Their Training to the Next Level
Knowing a command is one thing. Responding reliably when life gets exciting, distracting, or unpredictable is another!
Our Advanced Obedience program is designed for dogs who already understand their foundational obedience skills but are ready to develop greater reliability, focus, responsiveness, and self-control in real-world environments.
This program takes the behaviors your dog already knows and strengthens them through increased duration, distance, distraction, and progressively more challenging situations.
Our goal is to move beyond simply performing commands at home and develop dependable skills that become a natural part of everyday life.
What Your Dog Will Learn
Over 8 private training lessons, we'll build upon your dog's existing foundation and progressively develop more advanced obedience and real-world skills, including:
Advanced Obedience & Duration: Extended sit, down, place, and stay commands with increased duration, distance, and distractions.
Advanced Recall & Emergency Recall: Strengthening response to recall cues, developing emergency recall, and building reliability around competing distractions.
Distance Commands & Handler Responsiveness: Practicing obedience cues from greater distances while maintaining focus and responsiveness.
Advanced Leash Skills & Heel Work: Refining loose-leash walking, introducing or strengthening heel and switch, and developing controlled movement in different environments.
Impulse Control & Self-Regulation: Improving patience, emotional control, and the ability to remain composed in exciting or distracting situations.
Environmental Neutrality & Handler Engagement: Maintaining focus and appropriate behavior around people, other dogs, unfamiliar environments, and everyday activity.
Real-World Proofing: Strengthening obedience in progressively more challenging locations, situations, and distractions.
Off-Leash Foundations & Reliability: Introducing appropriate off-leash preparation through long-line work, distance training, distraction proofing, and reliable responsiveness when safe and suitable.
As your dog progresses, we'll begin transferring learned behaviors beyond familiar training environments and into appropriate real-world settings.
Whether you're walking through town, visiting a park, navigating public spaces, or exploring somewhere new, our goal is to help your dog understand that the same expectations apply regardless of the environment.
Off-leash training is introduced only when appropriate for your dog's abilities, reliability, and safety. Rather than rushing to remove the leash, we progressively build the skills needed for greater freedom while teaching you how to recognize when your dog is ready.
Every dog progresses differently. Training difficulty is increased according to your dog's individual abilities, confidence, and demonstrated reliability—not simply because we've reached a certain lesson.
We build the next level only when your dog is ready for it.
Your Training Package Includes
8 Private Training Lessons, including your initial in-home assessment and first training session.
Complimentary 30-Minute Initial Phone Consultation to discuss your dog's existing skills, training history, and advanced training goals.
Cedar Creek Advanced Training Kit with equipment and tools to support advanced training and real-world proofing.
Individualized Advanced Training Plan & Homework designed around your dog's current abilities and progress.
Real-World Training & Progressive Proofing in appropriate environments as your dog develops greater reliability.
Owner Education & Ongoing Support to help you maintain consistency, reinforce skills, and continue building success between lessons.
Personal Client Portal Access to manage appointments, follow progress, access educational resources, and communicate with your trainer.
How to Get Started — Our 3-Step Training Process
STEP 1 — Initial Phone Consultation (30 Minutes)
Every successful training journey begins with understanding your dog!
Your first required appointment is a 30-minute phone consultation where we'll discuss your dog's training history, existing obedience skills, current reliability, everyday challenges, and your goals for advanced training.
We'll also discuss any behavioral concerns, safety considerations, and the environments or situations where you'd like to see greater reliability.
This conversation helps us determine your dog's current foundation and prepare for the initial in-home assessment.
This consultation is included in your purchased package at no additional fee.
STEP 2 — In-Home Assessment & Initial Training Session (2–2.5 Hours)
Your first in-home appointment is where we begin evaluating your dog's current skills and building a plan for the next level!
During this visit, we'll conduct an in-depth assessment of your dog's temperament, training history, foundational obedience, handler engagement, impulse control, and responsiveness.
We'll evaluate existing skills, identify areas requiring additional strengthening, and determine an appropriate starting point for advanced training.
We'll then begin hands-on training, introduce appropriate progression exercises, and establish an individualized plan for building greater reliability.
Your appointment includes approximately:
1 hour of consultation and training assessment.
1 hour of hands-on training.
Additional time for questions, recommendations, and planning.
This appointment counts as Lesson 1 of your 8-lesson package. No additional assessment fee is required.
STEP 3 — Remaining Training Sessions
After completing your Initial Phone Consultation and In-Home Assessment, you may begin scheduling your 7 remaining private training lessons.
Each session builds upon previously introduced skills while progressively increasing duration, distance, distractions, and overall difficulty.
As your dog demonstrates readiness, training may expand into appropriate real-world environments to strengthen reliability beyond the home.
We'll focus on refining obedience, improving handler communication, strengthening impulse control, and developing dependable responses in increasingly challenging situations.
Off-leash preparation and advanced proofing will be introduced when appropriate, with safety and demonstrated reliability guiding each progression.
Training will move at a pace appropriate for your dog's individual abilities, confidence, and performance.
Important Booking Information: All appointments must be completed in order. Your Initial Phone Consultation (Step 1) must be completed before your In-Home Assessment (Step 2), and both must be completed before beginning your Remaining Training Sessions (Step 3).
Your Cedar Creek Client Portal
Once you've completed your package purchase, you'll receive an email with instructions for accessing your personal Cedar Creek Client Portal.
Your portal serves as your central hub for everything related to your dog's training journey!
Through your portal, you'll be able to:
Schedule & Manage Appointments: Book upcoming training sessions and keep track of your schedule.
Monitor Training Progress: Follow your dog's development, accomplishments, and advanced training milestones.
Review Session Information: Access training updates, notes, and recommendations.
Access Personalized Homework: Review advanced training exercises and practice assignments between lessons.
Explore Educational Resources: Read helpful handouts, training guides, and informational materials.
Communicate With Your Trainer: Send messages, ask questions, and receive guidance throughout your program.
Your portal makes it easier to stay organized, involved, and informed throughout your dog's advanced training experience.
Ready to Take Your Dog's Training to the Next Level?
Advanced Obedience is about more than teaching additional commands. It's about developing the consistency, communication, and reliability needed to make your dog's existing skills truly useful in everyday life.
To Get Started: Select Advanced Obedience, complete your package purchase, and watch for your client portal welcome email with instructions for scheduling your first required appointment.
Please note: Purchasing your package does not automatically schedule your appointments. All training appointments must be scheduled separately through your client portal and completed in the required order.
8 Private Lessons • 30-Minute Phone Consultation • Advanced Training Kit Included • Real-World Proofing • Personalized Homework • Client Portal Access • Ongoing Owner Support
Higher skills. Greater focus. Real-world reliability.