Welcome Home - A Guide for Shelter Dog Adopters
Guided education for new dog shelter dog adopters.
Author
Skylar McClellan, CPDT-KA
Price
$79
Every purchase includes a $10 donation to an animal shelter or rescue organization of your choice.
ABOUT THE COURSE
The Welcome Home Program is a guided course for people in the first weeks and months after bringing a dog home. It is designed to help you understand what your dog is experiencing during transition and how your early choices shape stress, learning, behavior, and trust over time. Many adopters receive very little guidance about this phase, even though it is one of the most influential periods in a dog’s life.
Across seven modules, you will learn how stress accumulates, how to recognize when your dog needs more time, how to build safety before you ask for skills, and how to make thoughtful decisions that support long-term stability. The course is built around the same framework used throughout the program, including warm water, golf balls and rice, and the process of thawing back into themselves, all grounded in real patterns seen in newly adopted dogs.
This program is practical, calm, and realistic. You can move at your own pace, return to modules as your dog changes, and apply what you learn directly in your home. If you are early in life with a new dog, this course gives you a clear map of the transition and a way to build a relationship that lasts.
THREE DAYS
Decompression, quiet observation, low expectations, and learning your dog without pressure, performance, or premature training goals yet
THREE WEEKS
Routines settle, stress lowers, trust builds, patterns emerge, and you begin seeing the dog you are actually living with
THREE MONTHS
Personality surfaces, bonds deepen, behavior stabilizes, and thoughtful training becomes possible, useful, and genuinely effective in daily life
COURSE LESSONS
Skylar McClellan, CPDT-KA
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