Helping you and your dog to have the highest quality life and relationship.
Our Training Services.
PupScouts Academy
This is Wild Pup Adventures’ premier adventure training program, led by the most experienced backcountry dog pack adventure guide in the Pacific Northwest. Offered as a 10–12 week program with a full, progressive curriculum.
PupScouts participants join weekly, all-day outdoor adventure dog packs designed to teach the most valuable real-world skills for dogs who love to explore outdoors. Learning happens in motion—through peer canine modeling, real-time application, natural consequences, and healthy social interaction—where dogs learn not only from their environment, but from one another.
This program is built on the principle that dogs learn fastest and most reliably in community, with thoughtful structure and confident leadership. With close guidance from the Pack Leader, dogs practice high-level skills in the same settings where they’re expected to perform them—off-leash, around distractions, and in changing terrain.
PupScouts is an ideal multi-month option for dogs preparing for off-leash hiking, camping, and adventure travel. The focus is on safety, impulse control, recall, social fluency, and situational awareness and so much more—so your dog can be trusted to make good choices no matter where you are.
Read more about PupScouts Academy.
In Person Custom Training Packages
Meet Toby, WPA’s Owner in person, weekly for 1-1.5 hour personalized training sessions for you and your dog.
Designed for pet parents and dogs to learn and grow together, these in-person sessions are fully customized to your goals, your dog, and your day-to-day life. No two dogs learn in exactly the same way and with the same methods, which is why every session is built in real time—based on your dog’s individual learning style, emotional state, and immediate feedback.
Wild Pup Adventures uses Learner-Centered Dog Training, a philosophy developed by Toby over a decade of hands-on work with dogs. This approach respects each dog as a unique individual and prioritizes clarity, trust, and understanding over rigid protocols or one-size-fits-all methods.
Training is offered in 4- or 8-week packages, allowing time for meaningful progress, integration at home, and support as new skills and behaviors take shape.
Board & Train Adventure Immersion
For pet parents who want meaningful progress without managing the daily training work, our Board & Train program offers an immersive learning experience designed to elevate your dog’s skills, confidence, and reliability.
Your dog lives and trains in a structured, loving and supportive home environment (learn more under Boarding) while receiving daily, individualized training—and participates in two or more guided adventures each week to practice skills in real-world settings. This combination allows dogs to build fluency, impulse control, and sound decision-making where it matters most: outdoors, around distractions, and in motion.
Programs are custom-created for you and your dog, based on your goals, your dog’s temperament, and the level of performance you’re looking for—whether that’s improved manners, off-leash reliability, social skills, or adventure readiness.
Board & Train is ideal for clients who want their dog to return home performing at a significantly higher level. Program lengths range from 1 to 6 weeks, depending on your dog’s needs and desired outcomes. Transition guidance is provided so skills transfer smoothly back into your daily life.
Virtual Training and Video Analysis Services
Virtual services to help you no matter where you live in the world.
Do you live far from Oregon? No problem. Toby can coach you through many training topics by phone. She can also analyze video you send of your dog to help translate and problem-solve.
Start reaching your training goals today.
1. Set up an account with us!
2. Toby will then give you a call to discuss details and answer any questions you may have about our services.
3. During the call you’ll be able to set up your Initial Training Consultation.
Our Areas of Expertise
Adventure Dog Skills
WPA teaches adventure-ready skills that build confidence and safety in real-scenario environments, including off-leash reliability with strong recall and stop cues—even around distractions—healthy off-leash play, swimming, and running safely alongside bikes or other wheeled equipment. Training also covers impulse control around trash, and unsafe food, foundational pet emergency first aid awareness, and the practical skills dogs need to explore the outdoors responsibly. If determined to be a good match for your dog, we can teach you how to utilize training collars to reach your goals while still maintaining a positive learning experience for all.
Everyday Training Topics
We help dogs build healthy social skills, reliable leash manners, and can resolve behaviors most people find challenging. We teach stop and release cues, eye contact on request, impulse control, and polite behavior such as no pulling, jumping, counter surfing, or excessive barking. WPA also addresses practical, real-life challenges like crate training, vehicle loading on cue, drop-it and leave-it skills, managing excitement without biting, mild resource guarding, and navigating family or multi-dog dynamics—while helping you understand and respond to your dog’s behavior with greater clarity and confidence.
How to be the best Pet Parent
We teach pet parents the foundations of effective training—how dogs learn, how to accurately read body language, and how to meet their dog’s physical and emotional exercise needs—so they can feel more confident, reduce anxiety, and respond to their dog with clarity and calm in everyday life.
Meet the Trainer
Thank you for investigating training options for you and your dog. Investing in this relationship can play a significant role in the quality of your lives but at the same time, it’s not easy to pick a program or trainer to work with. Let me introduce myself so you can determine if it’s a match.
I’m Toby Joy, Owner and Adventure Leader of Wild Pup Adventures.
For over 10 years, I’ve been building what I call Conscious Canine Community, working with dogs in off-leash wilderness environments where bodies, behaviors, and social dynamics are always in flux. I’ve safely managed off-leash packs of up to 18 dogs during multi-sport activities including dirt biking, kayaking, hiking and swimming—experiences that require calm and assertive leadership and the ability to read dogs moment by moment. Through this work, I’ve learned to notice subtle shifts in energy, emotion, and communication that often go unseen by others, yet make all the difference. I’ve spent countless hours in silence during our pack activities, watching, listening, and learning, allowing the dogs to be my teachers.
Because of that, I have unique and effective ways of understanding and working with dogs and their people. My heart is in this work and I devote myself fully to each client because your success is my success and seeing people happy with their dog brings me immense fulfillment.
When Wild Pup Adventures brings your dog in for training, you will always work directly with me—never a contractor or assistant. I show up with a decade of knowledge and know-how to help you reach your goals.
If your goals are within the scope of my services, I’ll offer thoughtful guidance throughout the process. Together, we’ll work toward a relationship that feels more connected, balanced, and genuinely enjoyable for both you and your dog.
I look forward to meeting you. Feel free to learn more about WPA’s values and philosophies or more about my background as well.
Feel free to learn more about WPA’s values and philosophies or more about my background as well. I look forward to meeting you.
(From left) Raven the Pack Leader, Jonah Meeks, myself, and Wally Woo-Woo. My 3 foster fails and the loves of my life.