Yes. We train dogs from across Hardeeville and Jasper County — Latitude Margaritaville, Hilton Head Lakes, Sun City’s Hardeeville side, Riverwatch and the neighborhoods along the Highway 278 and I-95 corridors. Training happens at our 20-acre academy in Dorchester, SC, where your dog lives and works for the length of the program.

Hardeeville 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. Some Hardeeville 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.

It is extremely normal, and Hardeeville sees more of it than most places because so much of the town is new construction and new arrivals. A dog that was fine in the old house often unravels in a new one — new noises, new neighbors, new dogs on the other side of a fence that wasn’t there before. That is not a dog going bad. That is a dog without enough structure to absorb a change this size. Structure is exactly what a Board & Train installs.

Yes, and it is one of the most common calls we take from the 55-plus communities here. A dog that can pull you off your feet is a safety problem, not a manners problem. We do not solve it with a stronger collar and a better grip — we solve it by teaching the dog that walking beside you is simply what happens, so the leash stops being a contest. Once the dog is not pulling, how strong you are stops mattering.

Yes, and it is the signature complaint of a fast-growing town where houses sit close together. Fence-line barking is a habit the dog has been allowed to rehearse hundreds of times, and every repetition makes it stronger. We interrupt the pattern, teach an alternative behavior, and then proof it — so your dog stops treating every passing neighbor and dog as something to announce.

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 Hardeeville 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 honestly.

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 entire 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 seen.

All of it — Latitude Margaritaville, Hilton Head Lakes, Riverwatch, the Sun City communities on the Hardeeville side, Levy, Okatie and the broader Jasper County area.