Online courses and coaching to help you navigate the challenge and adventure of life with your dog
As an Academy student, you can learn how to:
- Get your dog to focus and pay attention to you in public
- Teach your dog to reliably come when called
- Raise a happy, well-behaved puppy without losing your mind
- Get your dog to stop pulling on leash
- Get your new adult rescue dog settled in and off to a good start
- Potty train your dog (even if they've had a lot of accidents!)
- Understand your dog and communicate clearly
- Reduce your reliance on prong collars, head halters, or restrictive harnesses
Build your bond and get your dog to WANT to listen to you
The training techniques in the Academy are dog-friendly (and human-friendly!) and teach your dog that you are amazing and fun to be around.
The All-Access Pass
Get all our courses, bonuses, and support for one low monthly price
- Instant access to all our online courses. Scroll down to see the full course list.
- Access to twice-monthly live coaching sessions. Bring us your questions!
- New content added every month. The big courses are cool and all, but OH BOY do they take a long time to make. This new structure allows us to quickly create smaller, yet detailed tutorials on a variety of subjects.
- Lock in your rate. As long as you stay on your automatically-renewing subscription, your rate will never increase.
- Cancel any time. Just go to "view/edit membership" in the navigation menu, and hit the Cancel button. No hoops to jump through!
Looking for Puppy Survival School?
Our puppy program will teach you how to raise a happy, well-behaved puppy without losing your mind.
It comes with eight courses, each covering a different area of puppy life, plus some bonuses to help you make progress quickly.
And the whole thing is included with the All-Access Pass!
Training designed for real life, filmed in real life
Our tutorials are full of video demonstrations using real training footage.
You’ll get to see the “demo dogs” (aka our own dogs who we love very much) go from baby steps to advanced training. We’ll even point out our mistakes.
And this is no fancy studio production. The videos were recorded in our messy houses, with our noisy housemates.
You won’t have to use your imagination to figure out how these lessons fit into real life; you’ll get to watch them happen in real life.
As an All-Access member, you'll receive:
Support on your training journey
The courses are self-study, but you don’t have to go it alone.
You’re invited to our twice-monthly live coaching calls on Zoom where you can tell us about your situation, and we’ll give you some tailored advice.
Can’t attend the live session? No worries! Submit your questions in advance and then watch the replay.
You also get access to our forums where you can ask questions, vent about your canine conundrums, and share your wins.
Immediate access to our full course/content library
All of our step-by-step dog training courses are at your fingertips. We cover topics like reliable recalls, pulling on leash, puppy biting, and more. Here’s the complete course list.
We also have a content library of webinar recordings and other bonus content for you to check out.
The rescue dog roadmap
The most common question we get about our big flagship program, Puppy Survival School, is “will this work for my new adult/teenage rescue dog?”
The short answer is… mostly, but not completely. Raising a puppy and a rescue dog are similar, but different experiences. What all you folks with a new rescue dog really need are bits and pieces of ALL our courses.
So we’ve created a new feature: the rescue dog roadmap. It’ll show you exactly which lessons to take from each course, so you can get your new dog settled in.
We’ll be adding more roadmaps over the next few months, to help you quickly make progress on a variety of canine issues.
Achievement badges!
Most of the courses let you earn badges or level-up as you work through them.
With this feature, we aim to give you a fun way to track your progress and celebrate all your wins along the way.
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COURSE LIST
Super Recall
Get your dog to pay attention to you in public and reliably come when called, with just 15 minutes of training per day.
House Training
Potty train your dog with a simple plan that actually works, even if they've had a lot of accidents.
Foundation for a Well-Behaved Puppy
This will help you quickly get puppy problems under control and be a lot less overwhelmed. (Haven’t brought your pup home yet? Foundation will help prevent problems and establish good habits from the beginning)
Mini course: How to Get Your Dog to Work for Food
Troubleshooting food motivation issues (with advice that goes beyond "just use better treats!")
Practical Leash Manners: Loose Leash Walking
Finally get your dog to stop pulling and happily walk WITH you, with a step-by-step plan that mortals can follow.
Puppy Life Skills
Teach your puppy important "life skills" that will save you time and help you get your freedom back.
The WTFWIT-Phase
A guide to the critical but often-ignored mental and emotional side of raising a puppy.
Dog Introductions Demystified
All about techniques for safe and happy dog introductions, plus a deep dive into the body language and “rules” of dog to dog interaction. Consider it our advanced Dog Speak class.
Puppy Biting
Learn how to survive the hyper crazy bitey phase.
Baby Obedience Training
Video tutorials for teaching your puppy cues and basic manners that will make life easier, using fun games and puppy-friendly methods.
Dog Training Essentials
This mini course will teach you the basics you need to know to start thinking like a dog trainer and improve your results.
Understanding Your Puppy
Learn how to understand your puppy, so you can communicate clearly and reduce frustration
Puppy Socialization
Teach your puppy about the world in a way that's fun, builds your bond, and turns her into the best dog she can be
JOIN NOW TO GET YOUR ALL-ACCESS PASS
$24 per month
You’ll get access to:
- All of our courses
- Twice-monthly live group coaching calls on Zoom with Erin and Jake
- The Rescue Dog Roadmap
- Achievement badges
- Forums
- New content added monthly
- Lock in your rate. As long as you stay on your automatically-renewing subscription, your rate will never increase.
- Remember, you can cancel any time. Just go to "view/edit membership" in the navigation menu, and hit the cancel button. You'll have access to the Academy for the remainder of the thirty days, and then it won't renew.
The 60 Day Money Back Guarantee
If you decide the Academy isn’t for you, send us an email within two months of purchase and we’ll refund 100% of your payment, no questions asked.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS
We’re Erin Buvala and Jake Buvala, a husband-and-wife dog training team. We’re all about providing non-judgy, effective, modern training information to dog owners.
Fun fact: we met because of 3 Lost Dogs. I (Jake) had been running 3LostDogs.com solo for years. Erin adopted a particularly challenging dog (seriously – ask us about the time he ate an entire couch). She emailed me to get my thoughts on the situation, and 70 emails later, we decided to get married and also work together. Totally normal, right?
We’ve spent time in the dog ownership trenches ourselves. We know what it’s like to feel fed up, exhausted, and even angry when it comes to our dogs and their “issues.” We’ve both had those moments of thinking, “maybe getting this dog was a bad idea,” and “wow I’m literally the worst dog owner on the planet. I suck at this.”
We know what it’s like, so we’re dedicated to helping other people make it out of that trench of despair, and get to the good parts of dog life.