What Two Weeks Can and Cannot Fix
Two weeks is real, and it is not everything
The 2 Week Foundations program is honest about its limits, and that honesty is the point. We tell you plainly what two weeks can and cannot do, and we do not promise a "100% reliable" dog in a month. What we do promise is a trained dog, a written plan, and enough lessons to keep it. That is a smaller promise than some programs make, and it is the one we can actually keep.
What two weeks actually covers
In fourteen days, your dog works through two full weeks of curriculum. Week one is foundations: settling into a routine, name recognition, eye contact, Sit, Down, and the release word "Okay." Week two is leash communication: keeping the leash loose and following the handler through turns, then taking that skill from a quiet space out into the real world - a neighborhood sidewalk, then a dog-friendly restaurant patio with people eating and traffic passing by. That is the full arc of what two weeks holds.
What your dog comes home with
At pickup after two weeks, your dog settles in a crate, waits for food, knows its name, offers eye contact, and does Sit and Down when lured into position. Your dog also accepts a collar and leash and walks with you without a fight. That is a real foundation - a routine, house manners, and the basics in place. It is not finished obedience, and we do not present it as finished obedience.
Tools follow the same honesty
The 2 Week program does not include e-collar training at all - it is not offered at that length, because introducing an e-collar takes three dedicated days on top of a dog that already understands the obedience cues, and two weeks does not leave room for both. If your dog needs that level of communication, that is part of what the free evaluation figures out, and it usually means a longer program instead of squeezing an e-collar introduction into a program that was not built for it.
Puppies book the same 2 or 3 Week length but follow a different track entirely, built around manners and routine instead of formal obedience. The two-week clock does not mean the same thing for a ten-week-old puppy as it does for a two-year-old dog with a pulling habit, which is exactly why puppies get their own curriculum instead of a shortened version of the adult one.
What two weeks does not fix
Two or three weeks builds a foundation in a dog that does not have major issues to begin with. It is not enough time to fix an established behavior problem. A dog with real reactivity, aggression, or long-standing habits needs the 4 or 6 Week program, where there is time to build a specific behavior plan and proof it in new places under real distraction. We place dogs there after a free evaluation, not after guessing from a phone call.
Why the line is drawn there
This is also why the 2 Week program is meant for dogs six months to ten years old with no major behavior issues to begin with. It is built to establish a foundation, not to rebuild one. Trying to compress a real behavior plan into that same two weeks would not make the plan faster. It would just make it incomplete, and I would rather tell you that up front than sell you a program that cannot deliver it.
How you keep it after pickup
None of this holds up without you. The 2 Week program includes two Go-Home Lessons, where I show you exactly how to handle what your dog learned, plus a yearly Lifetime Refresher for the life of your dog if the training starts to slip. Two weeks gets your dog to a real foundation. What you do with it afterward is what decides whether it lasts.
If you are not sure whether two weeks is enough for your dog, that is exactly what the free evaluation is for - a program length gets recommended based on your dog, not the other way around.