You can keep practicing sit, recall, and potty training as your puppy grows. The early window for helping a puppy feel safe on unfamiliar surfaces and around everyday noise is much shorter. Bulletproof Puppy is my San Diego private training program for building an environmentally sound dog: one who can meet the real world with curiosity and confidence, not just obey cues in the living room.
BULLETPROOF PUPPY · SAN DIEGO
Build an environmentally sound puppy.
I’m Mary. You and your puppy train directly with me. We put the early weeks to work building solid foundations for surfaces, sounds, movement, and new places—while I teach you how to read your puppy and keep each experience manageable.
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Noise and surface foundations come first
- Surfaces and footing: grass, outdoor grates, smooth or slippery floors, sidewalk cracks, curbs, steps, and other safe textures your puppy may meet in daily life.
- Sounds and movement: engines, traffic, doors, construction sounds, and emergency sirens at a distance your puppy can handle.
- New environments: calm introductions to people, busy settings, and, when appropriate, farm animals or other unfamiliar sights.
- Confidence with you: learning to recover, check in, play, and follow your guidance when the world changes.
- Everyday basics: potty routines, bite redirection, leash foundations, recall, and useful obedience cues.
Puppies go through a first fear period around 8 to 11 weeks and may experience another during adolescence. What they learn in those windows can shape how they respond to the world for years. I help your puppy build confidence around lawnmowers, leaf blowers, horns, sirens, wildlife and other real-life sounds, and across asphalt, outdoor grates, stairs, ramps and safe wobbly surfaces. We work at a distance and pace your puppy can handle; frightening a puppy into exposure is never the goal. I teach you to read your puppy and keep building these foundations as your dog matures.
You learn alongside your puppy
If you are looking for a San Diego puppy coach, you and your puppy work directly with me in your real environment. I show you how to read your puppy, build a workable practice routine, and handle the moments between lessons. Our private sessions address the issues that matter in your household.
I bring more than 20 years of dog training and experience competing across multiple dog sports to puppy foundations: clear communication, confidence, and skills that can support the life you want with your dog, whether that means calm family outings or a future in sport.
FROM A GOOGLE REVIEW
Guidance the whole family could use
Elizabeth Erbes describes training with Mary and her dog Nyx. She says Mary explained the work clearly, adapted to Nyx in the moment, and gave their family practical tools they could use in real life. This review reflects Mary’s coaching approach; puppy lessons are tailored to each young dog and household.
Read Elizabeth’s original Google review ↗Enrollment and investment
Program price: $2,800. The Bulletproof Puppy package includes eight weeks of private training with two sessions each week. Puppies must be 16 weeks old or younger to enroll. The $250 initial assessment is not required for this puppy package and is not an additional enrollment fee. If your puppy is older, ask Mary which private training option may fit better.
Private puppy training in San Diego
I offer in-home puppy training in San Diego and nearby coastal communities, including La Jolla, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Coronado, and Imperial Beach, subject to travel availability. Tell me your puppy’s age, neighborhood, and the challenges you are seeing at home or on outings. We can then discuss your goals.
Get started
Contact Mary about puppy training or read the current program details. For more background, see the guide to early puppy training in San Diego.