Yes. We train dogs from across Bluffton — Old Town, Palmetto Bluff, Hampton Lake, Sun City, Rose Hill, Belfair, Colleton River and the Buckwalter corridor. Training happens at our 20-acre academy in Dorchester, SC, where your dog lives and works for the length of the program.

Bluffton is outside our complimentary pickup area, so it works one of two ways and you choose on the discovery call. We can quote you transport and handle both drives, or you can bring your dog out yourself. Plenty of Bluffton families make the trip once on purpose — walk the 20 acres, meet the staff, then hand over the leash. The cost is settled before you commit either way.

This is one of the most common calls we take from Bluffton, and it is a safety problem, not a manners problem. A dog that can pull you off your feet is a broken hip waiting for the wrong moment. We do not fix that with a stronger collar and more grip — we fix it by teaching the dog that walking beside you is the default, so the leash stops being a tug of war. Handler size stops mattering when the dog is not pulling in the first place.

Yes. Old Town is a hard environment for an untrained dog — narrow sidewalks, patio dining, other dogs at close range, and not much room to create distance when something goes sideways. We teach social neutrality, which means your dog learns that another dog or a passing stranger is not an event worth reacting to. Then we proof it under real pressure so it holds on Calhoun Street and not only in your driveway.

We will not use a live alligator, but we will build a recall strong enough to outrun your dog’s curiosity. The lagoons through Palmetto Bluff, Hampton Lake, Rose Hill and most of the gated communities are a genuine hazard, and an emergency recall — one command your dog obeys instantly, every time, regardless of what they are looking at — is the single most valuable safety behavior your dog can own here.

Six weeks is our standard and what we recommend for most dogs. Four-week and custom lengths are available when the dog and your goals call for it. We do not run two-week programs. Under four weeks there is rarely enough time to build reliability that survives contact with real life, and we would rather say so now than hand you back a dog that regresses in a month.

Board & Train starts at $4,726. Private coaching is $400 per session. Transport from Bluffton is quoted separately since you are outside the complimentary pickup area. Financing is available and we will walk you through it on the call.

Yes. Behavior modification for aggression, severe reactivity, fear-based responses and anxiety is a large share of what we do, and a number of our dogs arrive after another trainer declined them. Be straight with us about bite history on the call so we can scope the program properly.

Your puppy needs to have completed the vaccination series, which usually lands around 16 to 17 weeks. There is no upper age limit for adult dogs — we have turned around plenty of eight- and nine-year-olds.

You get a turnover session where we put the leash in your hands and walk you through the whole system — what to say, when to say it, and what to do when your dog tests you on day three. Qualifying programs include lifetime support and alumni group classes. We do not hand you a trained dog and disappear.

Yes, and graduates get priority. Your dog already knows the campus, the staff and the routine, which is a meaningfully different experience from a boarding kennel they have never set foot in. For Bluffton families who travel, that is worth something.

All of it — Old Town, Palmetto Bluff, Hampton Lake, Sun City, Rose Hill, Belfair, Colleton River, Hampton Hall, Island West and the Buckwalter Parkway corridor.