Board and train for Seabrook, NH dogs

What your dog learns, week by week

In the first week, every dog works on the core skills of Foundation: obedience, leash skills, place, stay and recall, impulse control, and crate and household manners, with enrichment and playgroup time when ready. Foundation ends there, with one go-home lesson.

Advanced continues into a second week of distraction proofing, real-world outings, neutrality, confidence building and structured socialization, then two scheduled go-home lessons. Choose it for an adolescent who is polite at home but pulls toward every dog in the Route 1 plazas or on the beach. Gabby, our Director of Training & Canine Behaviorist, confirms the right program at the opening assessment.

Route 1 shopping plazas and other everyday triggers

Seabrook’s Route 1 corridor is lined with big shopping plazas, busy parking lots and pet-friendly stores. For a young dog, the car park alone can be overwhelming: trolleys, slamming doors, strangers wanting to say hello. Add the summer beach traffic and the town has plenty of real-world practice on offer.

Use it gradually. Start at the quiet edge of a parking lot at an off-peak time and reward your dog for calmly watching people and cars, then move closer over several visits. Our neutrality in town guide explains how to pace that work.

During the stay

Your dog lives at Dogtown for the program, sleeping in an overnight suite with 24/7 monitoring. Days combine short training sessions, rest, enrichment in our 10,000 sq. ft. facility and, once the evaluation shows readiness, a playgroup of 7–10 dogs matched by size and temperament. You get an update each day.

Before drop-off, tell us about your dog’s routine in Seabrook: the early beach walks, the car rides along Route 1, who is home during the day. That helps Gabby shape the training goals around your real week, and it means the go-home coaching can focus on the moments you actually face, such as getting out of the car calmly at a busy lot.

If your dog has significant fear, reactivity or guarding, tell us up front. Dogtown’s behavior-modification programs run six to ten weeks, and Gabby will be honest about which route is right.

NH license, vaccines and price

New Hampshire licenses run May 1 to April 30, and every dog four months and older must be licensed in its home town each year. In Seabrook that is the Town Clerk, with online licensing through eb2gov. Before check-in we need the license, plus Rabies, DHPP and Bordetella records.

Each stay is priced after the assessment, and the evaluation is free. We reply within one hour on business days.