Private board-and-train on acreage in Molino, Florida, for families from Gulf Breeze and Tiger Point to East Hill, Pace and Perdido Key.
Six dogs at a time · 2 spots open for the next intake
If this sounds familiar
The walk is a negotiation you lose. Guests get jumped on before they clear the door. The leash never comes off, so the beach, the boat and the back gate are all off the table.
You have done a group class. You have watched the videos. It worked in the parking lot and fell apart at home, because nobody proofed it anywhere real. That is not a discipline problem on your end. Six weekly sessions in a strip-mall training room cannot compete with a dog’s entire day.
What changes it is repetition, in the places the behavior actually has to work — and then a careful handover to you.
How it works
Twenty minutes on the phone. Your dog, your house, your three worst moments. I tell you which program fits, or that Leeward is not the answer.
Drop-off or door-to-door pickup, a vet-record check, equipment fitting, and a baseline video so you can see exactly where we started.
Three to six weeks living here. Two sessions a day, then the same commands proofed on docks, boat ramps, sidewalks, patios and sand.
In-home sessions on your street with your family, the full written log, and a twelve-month support line. Refresher weeks are always available.
Programs
Three weeks is the minimum, because anything shorter does not hold once your dog is home and the routine goes back to normal.
$3,000Three weeks on property
Obedience on leash, place, recall, door and guest manners, crate, leash pressure and the house rules you actually live by.
$4,500Four weeks on property
Everything in Foundation, plus e-collar conditioning and off-leash reliability proofed in public: beaches, boat docks, parks and patios.
$7,800Six weeks on property
Everything above, plus behavior modification for reactivity, aggression or severe anxiety. Retriever and pointer foundations are available here as an alternative track.
The Leeward difference
Six is what one trainer can work twice a day, walk individually and genuinely know. Twenty-dog facilities are kennels with a training add-on.
Pictures every day, a video update every week, and a written log: commands drilled, environments used, collar levels, setbacks. You see the bad days too.
Boat decks, dock edges, sand, sidewalks, brewery patios, Publix parking lots. A dog that only listens at the training field is not trained.
Twelve months of unlimited refresher weeks on the Estate program, and a support line you can call for the life of the dog.
Included with every program, across Escambia and Santa Rosa counties and into Atmore. Your dog gets picked up and delivered home trained.
Timing, pressure and release read the same on a thousand-pound animal. Years of starting horses is why the hands here are quiet. More on that.
What nobody else here trains for
You keep a boat. You are at Pensacola Beach, Big Sabine or Lost Key most weekends in the season. A dog on a boat has to hold a place while the deck moves, stay off the gunwale, load and unload without a scramble, and recall on sand with fifty people, three kites and another dog in play.
That is a specific set of behaviors, trained in specific places. It is not something a general obedience class covers, and no other trainer in this market advertises it.
How that proofing works
Half the dogs here come from houses on the water. A dog that swims needs a recall that works wet, an entry and exit that is not a scramble, and the judgment to stay out of the water when you say so — around boat traffic, oyster beds and current.
That is trained where it actually happens — the Sound, the bay, the dog beach and off a real boat — not in a back yard.
See the Estate program
The other half of this business, and the half I was raised in. Pointing dogs handled off a horse and on foot, and a flushing side built around cocker spaniels rather than Labradors — whoa, steadiness through the flush and the shot, backing, quartering inside gun range and delivery to hand.
Started dogs, finished dogs and pre-season tune-ups, on pen-raised birds first and wild birds after. My father trained bird dogs in Pensacola for twenty-seven years.
Gun dog and bird dog trainingFounding clients
Leeward is new on this ground. My father trained bird dogs in Pensacola for twenty-seven years and I spent the years after that guiding and running dogs in competition, but the reviews from that work are not mine to put on this website.
Plenty of trainers would fill this space with quotes nobody said. You should assume that happens more than it does not. I would rather show you an empty wall and let you judge the training, the pricing and the honesty of the rest of this site.
The founding six
The first six dogs through the program get the full price sheet honored with one condition: at the end, you tell the truth in writing about how it went, good or bad, and let me publish it with your first name and your town.
If the training does not do what I said it would, that review says so and it still goes up here.
Every dog leaves with this
On the last day you get the written log for every session, the video record from day one to the end, and a handover in your own house with the whole household present. If the dog slides in the first twelve months, you bring it back for a refresher week. That is the whole guarantee, and it is the only one worth making — nobody honest guarantees behavior in an animal, but I will guarantee I stay on the phone until it is right.
Service area
The property is north of town on purpose. Space, quiet, water and field. The driving is my job, not yours.
Door-to-door transport runs across Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, plus Atmore, Alabama. Pickup and drop-off are free with every board-and-train program, both ways.
FAQ
Three prices, stated plainly. Foundation is $3,000 for three weeks. Off-Leash Freedom is $4,500 for four weeks. Estate & Concierge is $7,800 for six weeks.
Every program includes boarding, feeding, daily pictures, a weekly video update, a written training log, all training equipment, an in-home transfer session and a twelve-month support line. There is no hidden intake fee.
Programs run three, four or six weeks. Three weeks is the floor because that is roughly how long it takes to build a behavior, then proof it somewhere the dog would rather not listen.
Anything shorter produces a dog that performs in my driveway and forgets on your street. Two-week programs sell well. They do not hold.
Yes, on most dogs, and only after the dog understands every command on leash first. The collar is conditioned at levels most people cannot feel on their own hand. It is a way to talk to your dog at two hundred feet, not a correction device.
No dog is forced onto one. If you do not want an e-collar, say so on the call and we will build a leash-and-management plan instead. I will be honest about what that changes.
The property is in Molino, Florida, about twenty-five minutes north of Pensacola.
Door-to-door transport runs across Escambia and Santa Rosa counties: Gulf Breeze, Tiger Point, Pace, Milton, Navarre, Perdido Key, Pensacola, Cantonment, Gonzalez and Century. Pickup and drop-off are free with every board-and-train program, both ways.
That is the real risk with board and train, and it is a handler problem, not a dog problem. Which is why the program does not end when your dog does.
You get in-home transfer sessions on your own street, the full written training log so you know exactly which commands and which collar levels your dog was working on, and a twelve-month support line. If things slide, call me.
Six. Never more.
Six is the number of dogs one person can train twice a day, walk individually, proof in public and still know intimately. Facilities running twenty dogs are running a kennel with a training add-on. That is a different business.
Yes. Tours are by appointment, before you book and while your dog is here. I ask that mid-program visits are short, because a full reunion in week two resets a lot of work.
Everyone gets daily pictures and a weekly video update regardless. You will see the training, not a highlight reel.
Current rabies, DHPP and Bordetella, plus a negative fecal within the last six months. Canine influenza is recommended. Dogs on flea and tick prevention only.
Confirm this list against your own veterinarian’s recommendation and your insurance policy before publishing.
Some. Reactivity, resource guarding, leash aggression and dogs with a bite history get assessed individually, in person, and they belong in the Estate & Concierge program because they need six weeks and a much slower hand.
I turn down cases. If a dog needs veterinary behavioral medication managed by a veterinary behaviorist, or if I do not believe the outcome you want is achievable, I will say so and refer you out.
Retriever and pointer foundations are available as an alternative track inside the Estate & Concierge program, in place of behavior modification. It is an option, not the focus of the business — most of the work here is household and off-leash reliability.
No. The horses on the property are the owner’s own. They are the reason there is acreage, fencing and a barn here, and the reason the timing on the dog side is what it is, but horse boarding, lessons and training are not offered. Every program Leeward sells is dog work.
Tell me about your dog on a 20-minute call. If Leeward is not the right answer, I will tell you that on the call and point you somewhere better.
Currently booking: 2 spots open for the next intake
