For those who wish to acquire the youngest possible Dobe with the greatest amount of training, this would be the program to add to your soon-to-be Hoytt Dobe who would be right around nine to twelve months of age at time of placement. A pup in the medical completion stage will be selected to begin a program that encompasses the Super Pup Courses and the Custom Young Adult Programs, but instead of heading home following the last steps of the CYA course, it enters an ongoing repetitional period that further refines the earlier programs. To this is added life outside the primary residence, from travel training and manners in a vehicle to distractive exercises. It is a form of "ON THE JOB TRAINING." If we gave Canine Résumés, this one would note an Associates Degree with some job experience.

Refinements ... Heel on lead becomes more automated. The Dobe is learning that there is more of a preciseness to heel than just walking with its people. Further emphasis is placed on not walking too far in front, not lagging too far behind, not crowding on the inside turns, or swinging too wide on the outside turns. Of course these rules are not new to the dog, but the repetition is necessary for developing the subconscious response. Next we will take the sit on command when walking and turn this into an automatic response provided the Dobe is not being prepared for the conformation ring (conformation training requires a dog to stand each time the handler stops), thus the dog automatically Sits from Heel when you stop walking. Sit-Stay off lead is extended both by distance and time as is the Down-Stay. Both exercises are off lead. Sit-Stay at your side is extended so that when out for a walk if you stop to talk with someone the dog is not constantly trying to go off and do its own thing. This and Come are expanded by working the Dobe in varied environments, meaning away from our property.

Freedom in the home 24 hours a day is now just another day in the life the developing President's Dobe, with times without anyone in the home for up to four hours to help eliminate most of the anxieties that the developing dog suffers from when its new family begins the process of leaving it alone. Also, unless otherwise requested, the Dobe will be treated as one of our own and thus will retire each night when we do. Given its own bed and a place in the master bedroom, sleep comes around 10/11 pm and wake-up call around 6 am. By request, we can also teach the Dobe to use a dog door, an excellent convenience if the situation allows.

Travel Training ... not only does this program take the Dobe past the I think I'm going to throw up stage every time it is placed in a vehicle, to let's go bye-bye, but it also adds manners i.e., no jumping around, no excess barking, no trying to help you drive, etc. Plus short times alone in the vehicle, when the weather permits, for those times where you have to make a quick trip to the store or have to pick up the kids, and you might have to leave your car for more then a few minutes.

Distractive exercises begin with trips to the local park where the dog is taken off-lead. Then to the flea markets and to the cities. First going to town before the shops open, sometimes after the shops close to minimize what is best called canine culture shock. So many new noises, so many new faces, so many new objects. As the Dobe gets more comfortable in this environment, the trips into town are at busier times of the day.

In the end from the moment the pup is weaned and for the next 7 to 9 months, the staff as well as the Hoytt's will have worked together to create your special Super Dobe.