Puppy training for the life you actually have.
A practical, positive-reinforcement puppy course released one module at a time, each week. Follow along as I train my own puppy and learn how to build useful skills in short, manageable sessions.
Join now for $97Weekly lessons. Real-life demonstrations. No perfect schedule required.
You don’t need a perfect schedule
You don’t need a completely quiet house, a free afternoon, or an hour of training time to help your puppy learn.
I’m a busy mom with young kids, a business, a lot of dogs, and a pretty hectic season of life. Some mornings, I can wake up ten minutes earlier and train my puppy in the dark before everyone else is up.
That’s the kind of training you’ll see here: small, thoughtful moments woven into everyday life. Want to follow along with us?
Hi, I’m Abigail Greenwalt
A positive-reinforcement horse and dog trainer, breeder, and lifelong animal professional. My background includes:
- A degree in Animal Science and Captive Wild Animal Management
- Certified Equine Positive Reinforcement Trainer through the Pet Professional Guild
- Certification through Living and Learning with Animals (LLA), Dr. Susan Friedman’s course
- Former zookeeper, with extensive hands-on experience training a wide range of species using positive reinforcement — including big cats, foxes, small cats, meerkats, red pandas, capybaras, birds, crocodilians, primates, hoofstock, and more
- Former veterinary technician and shelter manager
Working with animals across species has shaped how I approach training: observe the individual, make the next step achievable, and use positive reinforcement to teach skills.
In this course, I’ll bring that experience to the everyday questions puppy people have: What do I do when my puppy bites? How do I build good habits without expecting perfection? What should we practice first?
A lifetime of training across species
A few moments from a career spent observing animals and teaching with positive reinforcement.
Planned topics
The course is being released in weekly modules as I film and train with my puppy. Planned topics include:
Preparing your home and setting up a puppy-safe space
Using food, a marker word, or a clicker in training
Building attention and starting recall
House-training routines and supervised freedom
Making early alone-time practice comfortable
Helping with mouthing, chewing, and other common puppy challenges
Socialization that gives your puppy room to observe, approach, or take a break
Training foundations such as settling, following a lure, and offering behavior
Starting leash skills, handling, and grooming exercises
Practicing exchanges, “drop it,” and “leave it”
Choosing what to focus on based on your puppy — not a rigid checklist
A peek at what a session looks like — the same positive-reinforcement method, whether it’s a jaguar or a puppy.
Learn at home, at your own pace
A virtual course lets you learn around your own schedule and in the place where you’ll actually be training: home. You can watch a lesson, try a small piece of it with your puppy, and return to the material when you need a reminder.
You’ll also see training as it happens with a real puppy. Puppies have their own personalities, energy levels, and learning pace. I’ll show the process, including how I adjust the setup and keep practice manageable.
A recorded course, released weekly
This is a recorded online course with new modules added weekly. When you enroll, you’ll join as the course is being released and receive new lessons as they’re uploaded. The course is designed for you to follow along at your own pace — there are no set class times.
Each module is a recorded lesson uploaded that day — not a live class.
Join the course and follow along with us
A recorded, positive-reinforcement puppy course for real life — new modules every Tuesday, November 17 through December 22, 2026.
Join the course — $97Before You Enroll
This course is educational and designed to help you build everyday puppy-training skills. Every puppy is an individual, so you’ll need to adjust the examples to your puppy and your home. For serious safety concerns or behavior problems that aren’t improving, seek help from an appropriately qualified professional.