For families looking for Lake Norman dog training, Dogs 180 has been helping dogs and their people since 2007. Our training and behavior support is tailored to each dog and household, with a focus on better communication, behavior, and everyday reliability.
Our training programs are designed around your specific goals and challenges—whether you’re starting with a new puppy, working on everyday manners, or dealing with more difficult behavior.
Most importantly, we teach you how to communicate clearly with your dog and build better behavior through structure, consistency, focus, and enrichment—so the progress you make carries into everyday life.
Help your puppy start life with the right habits through age-appropriate training focused on communication, confidence, social skills, household manners, leash work, and everyday routines. Puppy Foundations is designed to prevent common problems before they become established behaviors while helping owners build a strong relationship from the beginning.
Build the practical skills that make daily life with your dog easier and more enjoyable. Training may focus on leash manners, recall, place, impulse control, greetings, household behavior, focus around distractions, and reliable responses in real-world situations.
Take established skills to the next level with greater distance, duration, distractions, and real-world reliability. Advanced Training is designed for dogs that already have a solid foundation and may include advanced obedience, public manners, and off-leash reliability when appropriate.
Receive individualized help for more challenging behaviors such as reactivity, fear, resource guarding, overarousal, anxiety-related behaviors, aggression concerns, and other problem behaviors. Dogs 180 evaluates the dog, the environment, and the owner’s goals to create a practical training plan built around the individual situation.
Private Training, Day Training, and Training Camp are three distinct Dogs 180 services. Private Training gives you direct one-on-one coaching with your dog. Day Training allows Dogs 180 to handle more of the hands-on training and repetition during scheduled training days. Training Camp provides an immersive stay-and-train experience. Your Free 180° Assessment helps determine which service best fits your dog, your goals, and your household.
The first months of a puppy’s life are an important time for learning, confidence, socialization, and building good habits. Puppy Foundations helps you and your puppy start with clear communication and practical skills while helping prevent common problems before they become established behaviors.
Training may include household manners, leash skills, recall, focus, impulse control, appropriate socialization, confidence building, and everyday routines. Your puppy’s program can be delivered through Private Training, Day Training, or Training Camp depending on your goals and lifestyle.
Fundamental Training builds the practical skills that make everyday life with your dog easier, safer, and more predictable. Training may include leash manners, recall, place, impulse control, household expectations, greetings, and focus around distractions.
As your dog progresses, Advanced Training builds greater distance, duration, distractions, public reliability, and off-leash skills when appropriate. Each program is tailored to your dog’s current ability, your goals, and the situations you encounter in real life.
Training can be completed through Private Training, Day Training, or Training Camp. Your Free 180° Assessment helps determine the right starting point and format for you and your dog.
Challenging behavior rarely has a one-size-fits-all solution. Dogs 180 provides individualized support for concerns such as reactivity, fear, resource guarding, overarousal, anxiety-related behaviors, aggression concerns, and other difficult behaviors that affect everyday life.
We look at the dog, the environment, the behavior itself, and your goals to build a practical training plan for your household. Depending on the situation, training may involve Private Training, Day Training, Training Camp, or a combination of approaches.
Because behavior cases can vary significantly in complexity, safety considerations, and training needs, your Free 180° Assessment is used to determine the appropriate plan and pricing.
Training doesn’t stop once the fundamentals are learned. Group Classes give Dogs 180 clients an opportunity to continue building reliability around other dogs, people, distractions, and real-world situations in a structured environment.
Classes are designed primarily for dogs that have completed Puppy Foundations, Fundamental Training, or another approved Dogs 180 training program. This allows us to focus on practice, proofing, confidence, and continued progress rather than starting from the beginning.
For dogs and owners who want to continue building skills and work toward recognized training milestones, Dogs 180 offers support for AKC programs including S.T.A.R. Puppy and Canine Good Citizen.
These programs give you a structured goal while reinforcing good manners, confidence, reliability, and responsible dog ownership. They can also be a great next step for clients who have completed Puppy Foundations or Fundamental Training and want to continue progressing with their dog.
Training built around your dog, your household, and the goals that matter most to you.
Skills are developed for the situations you actually encounter at home, in public, and in everyday life.
We teach you how to communicate clearly with your dog and continue making progress outside of training sessions.
You’ll know what to practice, how to practice it, and what to focus on between sessions.
Training progresses according to your dog’s temperament, ability, challenges, and learning pace.
The goal isn’t simply good behavior during a lesson—it’s dependable skills you can use in everyday life.
Training is personal, and every dog’s journey looks different. Here’s what a few Dogs 180 clients have said about their experience working with Leann.
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