Doggy Bootcamp Melbourne | Alpha Boarding School For Dogs

Alpha Boarding School For Dogs offers a comprehensive and specialised training program designed to address a variety of behavioural issues in dogs, from reliable obedience to holding a gate boundary.

Focusing on rehabilitation and putting your pet in the right direction, we provide a structured environment which allows dogs to learn effectively, while giving owners the tools they need to maintain and enhance this training at home.

The trainers here are working boarding school dogs within close proximity to their own dogs who are all in off lead drop stay. These boarding school dogs all began their courses with different behaviours issues & goals. Ranging from fear based aggression, anxiety around new people and dogs, aggressive behaviour towards other dogs on lead, to over excitement and uncontrollable behaviour when there was something more interesting to do than listen to their owners.

Dog Boarding School (Also Called Doggy Bootcamp) in Melbourne: Our Training Approach

Alpha Boarding School For Dogs (some might call it doggy bootcamp) in Melbourne prioritises modern and effective techniques to provide effective results.

Our trainers are highly skilled professionals, equipped with the knowledge to implement proven training methods tailored to your dog’s temperament and learning style.

We help with improvements in behaviour for daily walks, interactions with strangers, and at home, regardless of distractions. Whatever you need, we will fully explain the boarding school process, what we do, how we do it, and what you need to do once your dog comes home!

In our purpose built manners room – learning to wait for an invitation though a doorway

“Every interaction with your dog is important so the methods used to teach them must be practical, positive and relevant to all real-life scenarios”.

Dog Boarding School (Also Called Doggy Bootcamp) in Melbourne: Proven Training Techniques

The training techniques of Alpha Boarding School For Dogs are diversified to suit individual dogs’ issues and owners’ goals. We employ a variety of methods such as the Pattern Learning Training Method, which helps in developing consistent behaviours in dogs through clear communication and effective training techniques.

In addition to pattern training, we also use Canine Cognitive Tonal Conditioning and Reset Learning techniques to adjust and fine-tune behavioural responses, focusing on cognitive development and emotional regulation.

Overall, we take the time to make sure you know exactly what you are paying for should you decide to train with us.

These dogs are waiting to be invited through the gate. Once individually invited they come through on command.

We train your dogs to be responsive and reliable under realistic distraction and then demonstrate their new skills and good behaviour in your scheduled three hour handback session!

All training is practical and effective and you will learn to train your dog using relevant methods that actually work, hands-on and in real-time.

We will teach you practical skillsets that we will clearly demonstrate to be relevant to any behavioural issues affecting your dog. It is these skills that will allow you to teach your dog to learn to learn and to learn to listen to you at home, not to just us here at the training kennels.

This dog is working on her off lead manners and obedience in our manners room – under the distraction of one of our resident Kitty Cats Jensen.

These dogs live in an apartment so their owner is using boundary training to assist with safely traveling in the elevator.

This dog is learning self control & overall manners around food on a coffee table.

Dogs of all ages can learn not to barge out an open gate – in this picture the Beagle is 3 months old, the Kelpie is 1 year old and the Rottweiler at 10 years old.

The trainers dogs are waiting at the gate for their turn to be invited through. They help the trainers throughout the day teach the other dogs to listen under distraction.

Choose Alpha Boarding School (Also Called Doggy Bootcamp) in Melbourne

How does our boarding school make sure that your dog will be safe, happy, and well-cared for? Here is why you can trust us with your dog:

Personalised Training Plans: We provide training and behavioural outcomes that are relevant to real life. Our methods help with the prevention or rehabilitation of serious canine behavioural problems.
State-of-the-Art Facilities: Our facilities in Melbourne are designed to foster learning and make your dog’s stay comfortable and safe.
Post-Camp Support: Training doesn’t end when the bootcamp does. We provide continuous support to help integrate learning back home, ensuring long-term success.

Enrol at Alpha Boarding School For Dogs in Melbourne

Whether you’re dealing with over-excitability, aggression, or wish to refine your dog’s manners, our experts are here to help with dedicated programs and comprehensive support.

Your dog will settle quickly into their new surroundings and have a positive experience at our kennels. After all, we want you to have realistic expectations of what can be achieved, and to inspire and motivate you through clear examples of how our system works!

Call (03) 8756 8900 (option 2) to see improvements in your dogs’ behaviour and obedience, ask questions, or request pricing.

Thank you for visiting, please take the time to read all the information on this site, it is part of the overall process of openness that we use to educate owners as to how and why our service can help you with your dog’s specific problems.

This dog is demonstrating calm controlled behaviour and manners under high distraction of both the cat wandering past and the child having a meal nearby.

She is also demonstrating a calm wait for permission to enter the lounge area (internal house boundary) without the need for a commonly used “baby gate” room divider.

This dog is also demonstrating calm controlled behaviour inside the home whilst the baby is playing nearby.