Is Board and Train Right for Your Dog?
Board and train is a fit if your dog:
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Pulls hard on leash or won't walk politely
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Reacts to other dogs or people — barking, lunging, or freezing up
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Won't come when called, especially outside
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Jumps on guests, counter-surfs, or tunes you out when it matters most
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Is a puppy who needs structure and socialization from the start
If any of that sounds like your dog, you're not doing anything wrong. Most of these behaviors just need consistent, focused work — and that's hard to fit into daily life.
What Board and Train
Actually Looks Like
Your dog lives and trains with me full time for one to three weeks at Potrero K9 in Roseville. Every day starts with focused training in the morning, followed by exercise, rest, and real-world field trips around Roseville and the greater Sacramento area — parks, sidewalks, stores, wherever the distractions are.
We run the repetitions it takes for behaviors to actually hold up. Not just in a quiet training room, but when there's a dog across the street or a stranger at the door.
Your Dog Comes Home — and So Do the Results
Board and train doesn't replace private lessons. It sets them up. Your dog builds the foundation with me, then I teach you how to keep it.
Every program includes a go-home lesson where I walk you through everything your dog learned, a written training plan built for your dog, and three months of text and phone access to me after your dog goes home. Because the training only sticks if you know how to run it.
1 Week — $1,000
Best for returning private-lesson clients and frequent boarders. One focused week on a specific issue, or a first introduction to the e-collar. Includes a go-home lesson and customized instructions.
2 Weeks — $2,300
Perfect for puppies. Two weeks building foundational obedience and confident socialization, plus a consultation, a go-home lesson, a written training plan, and three months of trainer access.
3 Weeks — $3,200
The most comprehensive package. Three weeks for foundational obedience, behavioral concerns, or giving a young puppy the structure to succeed — with consultation, go-home lesson, written plan, and three months of trainer access.
Who Your Dog Will Be Living With
Your dog isn't going to a kennel. Your dog is coming to my house — living with me, my dogs, my cat, the doorbell, the coming and going, all of it. Because that's what a home is, and a home is where your dog has to work.
That's the whole point. A dog can look perfect in a training room and fall apart in a living room. So we do life together. Meals, rest, the busy parts of the day, field trips out into Roseville and Sacramento with other trainers and other dogs. My house is a busy one. If yours is quieter, that's easy — I'd rather your dog learn to hold it together here and then go home to something calmer than the other way around.
I have a list of credentials I'm happy to walk you through — vet tech years, sport titles, the trainers who taught me. Ask me at the consultation. But none of that is what makes this work.
What makes it work is that we build the plan together. I meet your dog, I meet you, and we're honest about what your dog actually needs. Then your dog lives with me for 1 to 3 weeks and learns how to live in a house — so I can hand that back to you. Your dogs new best friend - Alexia Rodriguez