Rocky Top University™

Our intentional and comprehensive curriculum educates owners to be knowledgeable to meet their dogs' growth and support their continued success. This education involves personalized one-on-one coaching where we take knowledge learned in the course work (University) and apply it through hands-on training in real time.

We pride ourselves on providing the utmost quality, care and calming environment to get the most out of our dogs in our programs. We train primarily inside of a home to ensure a stress-free and calming training environment. The less anxious they are, the more comfortable they feel to perform, learn, and retain new information.

Our dogs get consistent real world practice by applying what they’ve learned in a public setting such as: Home Depot, restaurants, breweries, car rides, neighborhoods and parks.

Dogs need 75 successes to learn new commands to create new neural pathways. To ensure the dogs are able to take what they’ve learned in the home and apply it outside the home, we change the context of their learning environment. This allows our dogs to understand that the same rules apply at home as they do in public.

It’s important to us that you feel that your dog is well taken care of. We post multiple daily progress updates of your dog training and playing in real time. This could include pictures as well as video footage.

We believe in transparency in how we train your dog. You can rest assured knowing that your dog is well taken care of, having fun and progressing in our programs. This helps owners feel more connected to the training process and invested in the dogs' learning and development.