Clover | Golden Retriever | Bakersfield, Ca

ByJesse Medina

🐾 Welcome to Our 3-Week Board & Train Program 🐾

This handsome pup has officially joined us at Off-Leash K9 Training Bakersfield for our 3-Week Board & Train Program, where we’ll also be preparing him to take his Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Test! 🎓🐶

He’s a friendly dog who does well with people and other dogs overall, but he can be a little standoffish with strangers — especially men. During his stay with us, we’ll be focusing heavily on confidence building, proper socialization, neutrality around distractions, and teaching him how to calmly work through new situations.

Some of the goals we’ll be working on include: ✔️ Preparing for the AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Test

✔️ Improving overall obedience and impulse control

✔️ Stopping unwanted chewing on kids’ toys and household items

✔️ Teaching proper house manners and boundaries

✔️ Staying off the couch and counters

✔️ Building confidence around unfamiliar people and environments

✔️ Strengthening focus, recall, heel, place, and calm behavior in public

Our training focuses on communication, structure, and helping dogs clearly understand expectations while building trust and confidence. We’re excited to help him become a calmer, more confident, and well-mannered companion both at home and out in public.

Stay tuned for pupdates and progress videos throughout his training journey! 🐕🔥

Pupdate:#2

WEIGHT: 75.4 Lbs

MORNING FEED: All

TRAINING HIGHLIGHTS: Today’s training with Clover focused on engagement, introducing light leash pressure, and working on recall. Clover did well staying attentive and responsive throughout the session.

Pupdate:#3

WEIGHT: 75.4 Lbs

MORNING FEED: All

TRAINING HIGHLIGHTS: Today’s training with Clover focused on duration commands, and he did a great job staying consistent and focused throughout the session. Clover worked on maintaining his commands for longer periods of time while building patience and impulse control, and he continues making great progress with his obedience training.

Pupdate:#4

WEIGHT: 75.4 Lbs

MORNING FEED: All

TRAINING HIGHLIGHTS: Today’s training with Clover went very well. He did an excellent job working on the place command and showed great focus throughout the session. Clover remained calm and consistent while holding position, continuing to build confidence, patience, and overall obedience. Great work from him today.

Pupdate:#5

WEIGHT: 75.4 Lbs

MORNING FEED: All

TRAINING HIGHLIGHTS: Today’s training with Clover focused on holding multiple commands, and he did an excellent job. We practiced maintaining positions for extended periods while working through different commands, helping to build his patience, focus, and reliability. Clover stayed engaged throughout the session and showed great consistency, even as expectations increased. He continues to make solid progress and is becoming more confident with each training session. Great work today, Clover! 🐾

 

Jesse Medina

Ever since Jesse was young, he had a fascination with all animals, especially dogs. Jesus once rescued a dog near the street he lived on and helped nurse her back to health. From that point forward Jesus has wanted to help dogs in any way. Read more about Jesse here.