DOG TRAINING SERVICES
Training That Builds Confidence. Not Compliance.
At THE DOG SERVICES, we don't just teach obedience—we help dogs and their owners create meaningful, lasting behavioral change. Our customized dog training programs address everything from leash manners and everyday obedience to fear, anxiety, reactivity, and more complex behavioral challenges. Through thoughtful, immersive training, we build confidence, communication, and practical skills that carry into everyday life. Serving dog owners throughout Menifee, Murrieta, Temecula, and surrounding communities.
FREE INITIAL ASSESSMENT
We Don’t Guess. We Assess.
Before recommending a training program, we offer a free 20–30 minute initial assessment. This gives us an opportunity to meet your dog, observe their behavior and temperament, discuss your concerns, and understand your goals.
Here’s what you can expect:
✔️ Behavior + temperament evaluation
✔️ Lifestyle and goal alignment
✔️ Customized training recommendations
✔️ No-pressure, educational conversation
Our Approach to Training
We believe tools should support training—not replace it. Our focus is on teaching dogs how to think, respond, and make better choices through clear communication, engagement, structure, and appropriate reinforcement.
Training is individualized to the dog in front of us. Through carefully planned exposure and real-world practice, we work to build confidence, emotional regulation, impulse control, and skills that owners can continue at home.
Meaningful behavioral change takes time. That’s why our programs are designed around the individual dog rather than promising quick fixes or one-size-fits-all results.
BOARD & TRAIN PROGRAMS
Immersive Training. Individualized to Your Dog. Built for Real Life.
Our Board & Train programs provide immersive, home-based dog training focused on behavior, communication, confidence, and practical skills for everyday life. Each dog receives an individualized training plan, daily structure, carefully planned real-world exposure, and training based on their specific needs and goals. Serving families throughout Menifee, Murrieta, Temecula, and surrounding communities.
4-WEEK BOARD & TRAIN
$4,500
Best suited for:
Dogs needing a strong training foundation, improved manners and impulse control, confidence building, behavior modification, or help with issues such as reactivity, fear, anxiety, leash pulling, and difficulty settling.
Your dog’s program may include:
✓ Engagement and clear communication
✓ Marker training and foundational obedience
✓ Sit, Down, Place, Stay, and Recall
✓ Leash skills and structured walking
✓ Impulse control and emotional regulation
✓ Confidence building and appropriate socialization
✓ Behavior modification based on the individual dog
✓ Carefully planned real-world exposure and generalization
✓ Daily structure, enrichment, and appropriate play
✓ Daily photo/video updates
✓ Owner education and hands-on coaching
✓ Go-Home lesson and post-program follow-up support
Every dog is different.
Training plans are individualized based on your dog’s behavior, temperament, learning history, and your goals. The initial assessment helps us determine whether the 4-week program is appropriate or whether additional training time would better serve your dog.
6-WEEK BOARD & TRAIN
$6,500
Best suited for:
Dogs with more complex or established behavioral challenges that require additional time, repetition, and carefully planned training. This may include significant reactivity, fear or anxiety, difficulty recovering from triggers, high arousal, poor impulse control, or dogs that need a slower approach to building confidence and changing behavior.
Your dog’s program may include:
✓ Everything included in the 4-Week Board & Train
✓ Additional time for decompression and relationship building
✓ In-depth behavior modification based on the individual dog
✓ Carefully planned exposure to triggers at an appropriate pace
✓ Extended confidence-building and emotional regulation work
✓ Impulse control around higher levels of distraction
✓ Increased real-world exposure and generalization
✓ Greater repetition to develop more reliable behavioral patterns
✓ Advanced obedience and reliability around distractions
✓ Daily structure, enrichment, and appropriate play
✓ Daily photo/video updates
✓ Owner education and hands-on coaching
✓ Go-Home lesson and post-program follow-up support
Every dog is different.
The 6-week program provides additional time for dogs whose temperament, behavioral history, or training needs require a slower and more comprehensive approach. Program length is recommended following the initial assessment and is based on what we believe will best support the individual dog.
6-WEEK PUPPY RAISING & TRAINING PROGRAM
$6,200
For puppies starting as young as 8 weeks
Best suited for:
Young puppies whose families want professional guidance and a strong developmental foundation from the very beginning. This immersive six-week program combines puppy raising, thoughtful socialization, confidence building, household routines, early training, and owner education during one of the most important developmental periods of a puppy's life.
Your puppy’s program may include:
✓ Engagement and clear communication
✓ Marker training and age-appropriate obedience foundations
✓ Sit, Down, Place, Stay, and Recall foundations
✓ Crate training and healthy crate routines
✓ Potty training and consistent daily scheduling
✓ Leash introduction and structured walking foundations
✓ Age-appropriate impulse control and emotional regulation
✓ Carefully planned socialization during the crucial developmental period
✓ Exposure to new people, appropriate dogs, sounds, surfaces, objects, and environments
✓ Confidence building and healthy recovery from new experiences
✓ Handling for grooming, veterinary care, and everyday life
✓ Appropriate puppy play and development of healthy social skills
✓ Settling and calm behavior in the home and appropriate public environments
✓ Prevention and management of common puppy behaviors such as biting, chewing, and jumping
✓ Age-appropriate real-world exposure and generalization
✓ Daily structure, enrichment, rest, and appropriate play
✓ Daily photo/video updates
✓ Owner education and hands-on coaching
✓ Go-Home lesson and post-program follow-up support
Every puppy is different.
Training and socialization are individualized based on your puppy’s age, temperament, confidence, developmental needs, and vaccination status. Our goal is not to create a “finished” dog in six weeks, but to build strong foundations during this important stage of development and give you the knowledge and skills to continue that progress as your puppy grows and matures.
Your Dog’s Journey Doesn’t End at Graduation
Training may end, but our relationship doesn’t. After completing a Board & Train program, clients have access to our exclusive boarding service when they travel or need care for their dog. Because your dog is returning to people who already know them, their training, routines, and individual needs, boarding can provide greater consistency and familiarity while you’re away.
Our boarding is home-based and intentionally small-scale—not a traditional commercial boarding environment. Dogs receive daily structure, appropriate exercise and enrichment, individual attention, and continued reinforcement of the skills and routines established during training.
Boarding is reserved exclusively for current and former Board & Train clients and is not offered to the general public.
Training the Dog Is Only Half the Program
A successful Board & Train doesn’t end with a trained dog. Lasting results depend on owners understanding their dog, the training, and how to continue that work at home. That’s why owner education begins while your dog is still with us and continues after they return home.
Throughout your dog’s program and after they return home, you receive:
✓ Daily photo and video updates — Follow your dog’s progress throughout their stay and see their training develop in real time.
✓ Educational training videos — We explain what we’re teaching, why we’re teaching it, and how it applies specifically to your dog, so you begin learning before your dog comes home.
✓ Educational resources tailored to your dog — Written information helps you better understand your dog’s behavior, training needs, and the concepts being used throughout their program.
✓ Hands-on Go-Home training — We teach you how to communicate with your dog, maintain structure, use the training appropriately, and carry those skills into everyday life.
✓ Private follow-up training during the first 30 days — Continued one-on-one coaching helps ensure that you are comfortable and confident applying the training at home while giving us the opportunity to address questions or challenges as they arise.
✓ Free group training sessions when available — Board & Train graduates may join complimentary group sessions for additional practice, coaching, and training around real-world distractions.
✓ Ongoing support — Questions don’t always happen during a scheduled lesson. We remain available to answer questions and provide continued guidance as you and your dog move forward together.
We don’t simply train your dog and send them home. We teach you how to understand the training, continue it, and confidently support your dog’s long-term success.
WHY WE'RE DIFFERENT
HOME-BASED TRAINING
Training happens in a real home environment, helping dogs practice the routines and skills they need for everyday life.
REAL-WORLD TRAINING
Skills are practiced in carefully selected real-world environments so dogs learn to use their training beyond the home.
INDIVIDUALIZED TRAINING
Every dog is different. Training is tailored to your dog’s temperament, behavior, learning style, and your goals.
SMALL-SCALE, PERSONAL CARE
A small-scale environment allows for individual attention, thoughtful training, appropriate rest, and care based on each dog’s needs.
BEHAVIOR BEFORE OBEDIENCE
We look beyond commands to address confidence, arousal, impulse control, engagement, and emotional regulation.
PROFESSIONAL CARE
Continuing education, canine first aid/CPR training, and full business insurance support the professional care of every dog entrusted to us.
DAY TRAINING
Intensive Professional Training. Home With You at Night.
Day Training offers a more intensive training option for families who want more than traditional private lessons without overnight boarding. Your dog spends several hours training with us and returns home with you the same day. Each training day is individualized based on your dog’s needs, behavior, and training goals.
HALF-DAY TRAINING
$150 / DAY
Up to 4 hours total, including a 15–20 minute hands-on owner coaching session at pickup.
A focused training option for dogs who benefit from several hours of professional training and real-world practice without a full day away from home.
FULL DAY TRAINING
$225 / DAY
Up to 7 hours total, including a 20–30 minute hands-on owner coaching session at pickup.
A more immersive day of training that allows for multiple training opportunities balanced with real-world exposure, enrichment, structured activity, and necessary rest throughout the day.
WHAT DAY TRAINING MAY INCLUDE:
✓ Individualized training based on your dog’s needs and goals
✓ Obedience, leash skills, and impulse control
✓ Behavior-focused training when appropriate
✓ Carefully planned public outings and real-world exposure
✓ Confidence building and appropriate socialization
✓ Structured play and enrichment when appropriate
✓ Rest and decompression between training sessions
✓ Hands-on owner coaching during each training day
✓ Photo and/or video updates
EVERY DOG IS DIFFERENT.
Day Training is customized to the individual dog. The recommended session length, frequency, training focus, and number of training days are based on your dog’s temperament, behavior, training needs, and your goals. Day Training begins with a four-session commitment, with additional training days recommended when appropriate. Some dogs may be better suited for private training or a Board & Train program, which we will discuss during the initial assessment.
PICKUP & DROP-OFF AVAILABLE.
Pickup and drop-off may be available for an additional fee based on location and scheduling availability.
PRIVATE TRAINING
Personalized Coaching for You and Your Dog.
Private Training provides individualized, hands-on coaching for owners who want to be directly involved in their dog’s training. Sessions focus on teaching both you and your dog, with practical guidance you can continue applying between lessons and in everyday life.
6 PRIVATE TRAINING SESSIONS — $550
Six 1-hour sessions
In-home travel is included within 10 miles of Menifee. Additional travel: $1.25/mile.
BEST SUITED FOR:
✓ Puppies and adolescent dogs
✓ Foundational obedience and household manners
✓ Leash walking and everyday skills
✓ Impulse control and calm greetings
✓ Confidence building for shy or fearful dogs
✓ Owners who want to be actively involved in the training process
✓ Owners who can commit at least one hour each day to practice the training exercises and skills between sessions
✓ Dogs whose training needs are appropriate for a private-lesson format
YOUR TRAINING MAY INCLUDE:
✓ A customized training plan based on your goals
✓ Engagement and clear communication
✓ Marker training and foundational obedience
✓ Leash skills and structured walking
✓ Impulse control and settling
✓ Confidence-building exercises
✓ Coaching through everyday routines and challenges
✓ Hands-on owner education and practice
✓ Guidance for continuing training between sessions
EVERY DOG IS DIFFERENT.
Private Training is customized to your dog, your goals, and your household. Some behavioral challenges may require a more intensive training format. During the initial assessment, we’ll help determine whether Private Training, Day Training, or Board & Train is the best fit for you and your dog.
FROM OUR CLIENTS
Tiffany, Temecula
"I was blown away by the daily video updates. I could see the progress and knew my dog was not just being trained, but cared for. When we picked him up, he wasn’t just obedient — he was calm, happy, and connected to us again."
Sharon, Sun City
"I’ve had experience with a few dog trainers but I’ve never seen anyone as patient and caring as Nathalie. She’s turned dogs that others have said were hopeless into sweet adoptable dogs. There’s a mutual respect. Thank you Nathalie for all you’ve done!"