Study Abroad is Traction Dog Training Club’s intensive board and train program in Austin. Your dog stays in a professional trainer’s personal home, with individualized training goals and coaching for you. Most programs run for three weeks.
Looking for a Texas board and train program and willing to travel? You can discuss an Austin stay even if your address is outside our in-home service area.
Schedule a consultation with our 5-star training team to discuss your dog’s goals and match them with an Austin Study Abroad trainer.
Your dog lives in a professional trainer’s personal home, where practice becomes part of everyday routines. Explore our Austin training services and client reviews.
Your evaluation establishes an individualized written goals sheet. Goals can include leash manners, recall, advanced obedience, reactivity or aggression and behavior concerns, based on what you want to do with your dog.
Progress updates arrive about every three days. In Austin, owner coaching takes place through frequent visits during the program, usually twice a week. Visits may be at your home, your trainer’s home or public goal locations such as parks and coffee shops.
The Study Abroad program page explains the evaluation, stay, owner visits, graduation and follow-up in detail.
Owners elsewhere in Texas can discuss an Austin training stay even if they live outside the in-home service area. Coordinate the evaluation, drop-off and owner visits before arranging travel.
Austin visits are usually twice a week. We practice where you want to take your dog or where you have had difficulties. Frequent graduation locations include Mueller Farmers’ Market, Butler Park’s playground and dog park, and the downtown Austin river trail. Locations are selected around your goals.
If you will be away during the program, discuss your availability with Mara before booking so owner coaching can be planned.
The listed three-week Study Abroad price is $3,990. Your evaluation establishes the recommended length and written goals. See Austin pricing and payment options.
After graduation, continue developing handler skills and maintaining training through Varsity or Traction Rally. Discuss next steps with your trainer.
For care without an intensive training program, see boarding in trainers’ homes. Traction K9 Kennels provides separate contact-free kennel boarding in Del Valle. If your dog will remain at home, compare Tutoring and Homeschool.
Yes. Your dog stays in a trainer’s Austin-area home, so your address does not need to be inside the in-home service area. Coordinate the evaluation, drop-off, owner visits and graduation coaching before arranging travel.
Yes. In Austin, visits usually take place twice a week at your home, the trainer’s home and/or public goal locations. You practice the skills during the stay and at graduation, supported by written goals and progress updates. See Study Abroad for the full structure.
If your main concerns happen in your home, such as behavior around guests or fence fighting, Homeschool lets your trainer work with that setting. Tutoring suits owners who want to learn the teaching process themselves. Your consultation helps choose the format.
