If you're a busy professional, have young kids or just don't have the time and energy to deal with the early weeks of raising a puppy, but still want a well-behaved dog, The Mannered Pup can do the work for you with Puppy Board & Train.

We will deal with the peeing, pooping, razor sharp biting, zooming through the house, shoe chomping, can't-stop-jumping puppy chaos so you don’t have to.  Plus your puppy will learn important skills.  In our board & train program, your puppy will go home with me, live in my home, be treated as one of the family and learn the following:

My home is in College Place and I accept one puppy at a time, between the ages of 8-12 weeks.  If you are within a one hour's drive from the Walla Walla Valley, I can pick puppy up, or you are welcome to drop off your puppy.  Puppy will stay with me for 3-4 weeks.  The time varies because each puppy is different and some puppies might not need the full 4 weeks to learn the skills we aim for.  

Every day I will provide puppy with multiple planned lessons as well as in the moment learning.  Safety is very important so puppy will always be supervised in the house and out in the yard.  

I will provide you with regular progress notes, photos and videos so you can be part of your puppy’s learning journey.   

While no dog can be programmed like a robot and your puppy will still be a puppy when it has finished our board & train program, your puppy will have an excellent foundation on which you can build.  To that end, I will provide a go-home lesson for you on pick up day and a virtual check in to make sure you're able to maintain at home what puppy has learned with me.  

I'm Adina Pearson and dogs have been a serious pursuit of mine for over    20 years -- not just as pets, but as training partners, starting with my heart dog Rosco who earned his CGC and was a therapy dog in multiple venues.  I've competed and earned titles in Rally and Novice Obedience with two of my own dogs and helped a friend title her miniature poodle in Beginning Novice Obedience.  My training foundation was built under mentors with high-level competition credentials, and I hold a training certificate through GoodPup.

Beyond my own dogs, I've fostered multiple dogs for rescue -- including some wild ones!  A recent foster arrived at 7 months with no training foundation and now can heel on leash, do a 3-minute sit stay, a 1-minute stand stay and hold her position while a stranger approaches and touches her.  That kind of work, done with patience and consistency, is exactly what I bring to every puppy in my care.

After years of training my own dogs, fostering, and learning from experienced mentors, I now offer puppy board & train for local families -- intentionaly keeping my client load small so every puppy gets my full attention.  I train with positive reinforcement, clear structure and genuine warmth.  My goal is a confident, happy puppy who fits into your life -- and an owner who knows how to keep it that way.

I can't wait to meet your puppy.

Shiloh is a puppy that started training with me at 9 weeks and finished at 13 weeks.  This was early in her arrival checking out her new crate.

Shiloh learned her name pretty quickly, here I am testing her while she's distracted.

She learned "Drop it" very quickly through the game of tug.

She was awesome at recall!

Smart puppy learned Sit and Down pretty quickly, but tended to want to paw at me on the way down, so a raised surface helped her practice correctly.

This is Dolly, a foster I took in at 7 months with no training foundation and this is about 3 weeks in to our training.

Also Dolly, doing a 2:45 second sit stay.  I didn't start the video until a bit into it, but she completed the task.  

Dolly now holds a one-minute stand stay. -- a foundation skill  we'lll continue building on.  

Mabel was a 6 month old pup who stayed for a monthand learned to heel on leash and more!