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Puppy Services Overview
The Board Hound offers a variety of puppy-specific solutions to your puppy-specific problems in an enriching and supportive environment. Our services are designed specifically for you and your new puppy to build confidence, play, and learn in an environment that enriches your puppy’s social development.
To learn more about each service in more depth, or to register for any of our puppy-specific services, please use the main menu to view those services.
Here’s how to get registered for our Puppy Services:
The Board Hound is accepting new puppy clients for Training, Puppy Party, Daycare, and Boarding services!
To get more information about our puppy socialization and puppy training services, please send an email to training@theboardhound.com.
Puppy Party Workshops
50-minute sessions – $10
Puppy socialization opportunities for pups up to 16 weeks old (16-20 weeks old requires an invitation to participate). Puppy Party is hosted on Sunday afternoons. Your puppy’s first session is free!
Puppy Kindergarten Workshops
6 rotating topics, 50-minute sessions – $45 per session
Curriculum follows positive experience socialization, name recognition, healthy play, voluntary attention, exposure to new experiences. The workshops are also designed to helps owners with puppy problem solving, focusing on one of our 6 topics, and customized recommendation for your puppy’s unique needs. Puppy Kindergarten is hosted on Sunday afternoons after Puppy Party.
Specialized Socialization for Puppies
1-hour session – $60
Socialization opportunities for puppies and adolescents to aid in their social development. The one-hour session is a great option for dogs that need additional socialization and confidence building beyond puppy party before they are ready for daycare.
Puppy Daycare Services
Full Day (over 6 hours) – $65
Half Day (6 hours or less) – $50
Puppy Daycare services are very popular for our puppies that have graduated from puppy-specific socialization. Our Puppy Daycare gives young puppies the opportunity to continue progressing in their social development by interacting with dogs of varying in size, personality, and age. Puppy Daycare includes lunch, and independent enrichment like frozen kongs. Puppy Daycare also includes lots of rest time to prevent overexertion and keep your puppy healthy. Puppy Daycare is for puppies up to one year old.
Boarding Services for Puppies
Boarding services are a great resource for owners that need overnight accommodations for their pet. Similar to our daycare participation requirements, for puppies under 16 weeks to be approved for boarding with us, they must be medically and behaviorally cleared to complete a daycare evaluation. Once your puppy has successfully completed their evaluation, additional daycare visits may be required prior to scheduling a boarding stay. It is important that your puppy’s social development is progressing well, and that they have the confidence to comfortably interact in a small playgroup of dogs varying in size, personalities, and ages. Please discuss your puppy’s social development with our behavior team if you have questions about boarding your puppy.
At The Board Hound, our daycare was established to enrich the lives of the dogs in our community through healthy outlets for play and socialization. Our smaller play groups come with individual care and attention, while providing a low-stress, safe, daycare environment at our location in Alexandria, Virginia. Since safety is our first priority, we start with providing a high staff to dog ratio of about 1 to 10. This personalization ensures that your dog is always closely monitored.