Board & Train Onboarding

Your Full Name(Required)

Your Dog's Name(Required)

Your Dog's Breed(Required)

Your Dog's Weight(Required)

Your Phone Number(Required)

Your Email(Required)

Your Instagram Username

Please provide your Instagram username so we can share valuable training moments and updates on your dog’s progress with you

Your Dog's Birthday – Please include month, day and year(Required)

If you do not know your dog’s exact birthday, please estimate.

Your Address for Pickup Day(Required)

Please write the address in which you and your dog will be present for pickup day. Note: If you do not live in the greater DC area, you will drop your dog at our facility. However, please still leave your address on this form

Feeding Instructions(Required)

Please give us your dogs feeding instructions here. Include amount, frequency, and any other information we need.

Vaccination Records

Please upload your dog's proof of rabies vaccination. Also upload any other vaccination records you have such as (distemper, canine parvovirus, and canine hepatitis)

Drop files here or

Max. file size: 100 MB.

You can also email this to [email protected] if easier.

Emergency Contact Information

Please let us know who we should contact in case of an emergency if you’re not available.

Emergency Contact Name(Required)

Emergency Contact Relation(Required)

Emergency Contact Phone Number(Required)

Emergency Contact Email(Required)

Introductory Questions

Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability. The more information we have, the better.

Please describe what training, if any, you have done with your dog.(Required)

What is/are the main reason(s) you are hiring Nova Canine Academy to help train your dog?(Required)

What are the biggest obedience issues you are having with your dog? Feel free to list as few or as many as you’d like.(Required)

What are the most important things that you feel you need in having a well-trained, well-behaved dog? What would you like your dog to be able to do?(Required)

Once board & train is complete, your dog will still require work with you. For 30 days, can you commit at least 15 minutes every day to working with your dog? I will get you 90%-95% of the way there, but reinforcement is needed by you.(Required)

Please answer the following questions regarding your dogs current behaviors

Does anyone living in your household work from home and/or is home regularly throughout the day? Please describe how long your dog stays at home alone. Do you have a dog walker or a doggy door?(Required)

Has your dog ever escaped from a properly closed crate? If yes, please explain.(Required)

Has your dog ever bitten a person? If yes, please explain.(Required)

How bad is your dogs separation anxiety?(Required)

Has your dog ever bitten another dog? If yes, please explain.(Required)

Do you use a crate for your dog? Yes or no. If yes, how often?(Required)

What would happen if you put your dog in a crate and left the home for 5-7 hours?(Required)

If you don’t know what would happen, take your best guess. You know your dog best 🙂

How food motivated is your dog? If you were to hand your dog a piece of kibble, would he/she eat it?(Required)

Does your dogs meals consist of kibble? If yes, do you add things onto the kibble? If no, what do you feed your dog?(Required)

Do you want your dog to enjoy or learn to swim? If you'd like, we may take your dog on a boat for a few hours of swimming and playing (season dependent).(Required)

Goals

Please list at least 3-5 goals for our training with your dog.(Required)