Four guides, each one built the same way: photos, numbered steps, a printable day-by-day plan, and daily text check-ins from the trainer who wrote it. Written by Southern Hounds, a balanced training company in the Carolinas. ★★★★★ 5.0 on Google.
The whole first month, start to finish: decompression, crate, potty, the structured walk, introducing your family and other dogs, and the ten mistakes that send dogs back to the shelter.
The crate routine we run on every board and train dog: setup, the duration ladder, nights, leaving the house, and the dog that panics.
Frequency, supervision, timing. The schedule, the outside routine, the hours in between, and every way it goes sideways.
Three rules, every walk, for thirty days. Plus the gear, the reactive dog, the frightened dog, and an honest word about tools.
The first 30 days, crate, potty, and the walk. 95 pages, four printable plans, and every check-in sequence. One download link, yours to keep.
The first 30 days covers the whole month at a chapter each. The other three take one of those chapters and turn it into a full guide. If you just adopted, start with the first 30 days. If one specific thing is wrecking your week, get that one.
You just adopted, or you are about to, and you want the whole month mapped out before the dog walks in the door.
Nobody in the house has slept in nine days, or you cannot leave without something getting destroyed.
There is a spot on the rug you have cleaned four times, or the shelter said house trained and the shelter was wrong.
You have started walking at 6am so you do not have to see anybody, or you have quietly stopped walking altogether.
Southern Hounds is a balanced dog training company in the Carolinas. We train in the real world: parks, hardware stores, sidewalks, front doors. These guides are the plans we hand our own clients, written down so you have them at 10pm on night one.
★★★★★"From the minute I met her and she did the eval on my Shepherd mix Thorn you could see the difference. She cares about the dogs and wants them to succeed."
★★★★★"Abby is no longer afraid to walk in public places. She prances proudly right by my side. I highly recommend Southern Hounds."
★★★★★"Maddie did more than she had to. That goes to show just how committed she is to helping us and our pets live better lives."
A PDF you can read on your phone or print, delivered by a download link the second you check out, plus a run of short daily text check-ins that follow the printable plan in that guide. Nothing is mailed and nothing is a subscription.
A little, on purpose. The first 30 days gives each topic a chapter so the month hangs together. Crate, potty, and the walk each take one of those chapters and go three times deeper: more steps, more problems, and a longer printable plan.
Yes. Clear structure, clear rewards, clear feedback. Nothing in any of the four guides requires a tool, and the tools chapter tells you honestly what belongs in a trainer's hands before yours.
Both, in all four. Where age changes the plan, the guide gives you the version for each rather than pretending one schedule fits an eight-week-old puppy and a four-year-old rescue.
Only if you're near us. We train in person in the Upstate of South Carolina, the Charlotte area, and Asheville, and the first consultation is free. If you're anywhere else, the guides and the check-ins are how we help.
They're digital downloads, so they can't be returned. If something is wrong with your file, text 864-387-5552 and we'll fix it.
Or take all four and stop buying them one crisis at a time.
Get all four for $59
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