RAISING A SEARCH & RESCUE PUPPY
YOU'RE INVITED BEHIND THE SCENES
Follow two puppies on their journey to become certified human remains detection dogs.
Get an inside look at how their trainers make decisions, address challenges, and lay the foundations for their puppy’s success.
"PUPPIES ARE A CRAP SHOOT"
You’ll hear even the most experienced trainers tell you this. And it’s true...sort of.
When you pick a puppy to be your next search dog you research different breeds and select a dog from a pedigree with proven health and performance.
But that's all BEFORE you bring your puppy home.
Once you get your puppy home—then what do you do to ensure their success?
Follow along as two trainers raise up their next
search & rescue K9 partners
Jo and Kathleen, each with decades of experience and multiple certified search dogs, are sharing what they’re doing to give their puppies the best chance of success.
You’ll get to watch our puppy training in action and join our conversations as we discover each puppy's unique personality and navigate different challenges that arise.
Come join us behind the scenes
Every week we'll be sharing videos from our live training sessions and you can bet we'll be sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly. You'll also be invited to join our monthly training chat where we'll reflect on how our training is going and brainstorm our next steps.
WEEKLY TRAINING VIDEOS
Watch each handler and their puppy during real training sessions.
Learn why the trainer made the choices they did and how they plan on moving forward with their puppy.
You'll follow the puppies' training progress in near real time and get to watch their trainers work through different challenges.
LIVE TRAINING CHATS
Hang out with us live each month as we swap training tales and brainstorm our next steps.
We'll be discussing the latest research and training techniques and how we can apply them to our puppies.
You'll be front row as we create individualized training programs (and share stories of our puppy adventures!)
GOT PUPPY QUESTIONS?
Tap the collective experience of both trainers to get help with your puppy, a future puppy, or teammates puppy.
Learn more about specific training decisions Jo and Kathleen made with their pups.
You'll be invited to ask any puppy-related questions and talk through puppy raising and training scenarios.
Get behind the scenes
Follow along as we raise our puppies to become certified search dogs!
No contracts. Cancel anytime.
$24
- Renews Monthly
- Instant Access to Weekly Videos
- Live Training Calls
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$34
- BEST VALUE — Two Programs, One Low Price
- Puppy Project + Monthly Training Membership
- BONUS: Puppy Selection for Detection Handlers ($27 value)
- Renews Monthly
- Instant Access to both programs
Frequently Asked Questions
Here’s everything you need to know about The Puppy Project and how you'll get to follow along as these puppies train to become certified search dogs.
You are welcome to join us whether you currently have a puppy, are thinking of getting one, are supporting a teammate with a new puppy, or are simply curious what the process of training a puppy looks like for us.
The Puppy Project is your opportunity to learn more about developing strong foundations that are critical to the ultimate success of a search dog.
This is the real exciting part of The Puppy Project!
We believe that cookie cutter training won't get you very far and that it's critical to train the dog in front of you.
Plus, it's our responsibilities as trainers to always be striving to improve the clarity and efficiency of our training.
While we’ll be pulling from our experience with previous dogs, you’ll be following along in real time as we create a unique plan designed specifically for our new puppies.
Jo and Kathleen have spent hours talking about puppies, discussing training strategies, and developing plans for how they're going to raise these new puppies.
We're opening the doors to these private chats so you can join us each month to learn more about what we're doing and ask any questions you have.
Each month you'll get to join Jo & Kathleen on their monthly chats where we'll be talking all things puppy and puppy training.
You're encouraged to bring your questions and share your training ideas during these chats.
If your looking for even more comprehensive training, the bundle is a great option.
In addition to everything you get in the Puppy Project, the Membership gives you targeted training topics designed to help new and advanced dogs focus on skills that are critical to your success in the field.
Each month in the Memberhsip you get a training plan PDF, a training video, demo videos from real handlers, and a live Q&A call where you can get help troubleshooting your training.
When you bring a new puppy home, so much of the initial work is about getting to know your puppy—their unique personality. You're giving them different experiences to help you learn more about them so you can create a training plan that is customized to them.
Especially in the early months, what we do with our puppies is the very similiar no matter what discipline they being trained for. The variation usually comes later when we introduce target odor.
If you're interested in broading your overall training tool box and actively participating in the live chats, we invite you to join us.
And remember, your subscription to The Puppy Project is on a month-by-month basis so you can cancel anytime.
No awkward phone calls or emails required. You can cancel anytime by logging into your handler dashboard and clicking cancel.
Be advised, if you're taking advantage of the bundle with both The Puppy Project and the Monthly Training Membership, when you click cancel you'll be canceling both.
ARE YOU READY TO TRAIN SOME PUPPIES?
Get your behind the scenes access to watch how these puppies train to become certified HRD dogs.
Follow along as two trainers take their puppies from 8 weeks to certification.
No contracts. Cancel anytime.