Puppy Day Camp – All-Day Learning & Play (8AM–4:30PM)
Remember the magic of camp? At SmartyPup! Puppy Day Camp, it’s even more fun on four paws. Your puppy spends the day in a safe, thoughtfully designed environment where they can learn, play, and grow through an intentional blend of training, socialization, and enrichment that supports what you’re working on at home.
Our focus is early development, not just “all‑day play.” Camp helps your puppy build brain and body skills for real San Francisco life: settling, impulse control, city sounds, handling, and being a good neighbor in busy spaces.
Drop off your puppy with our Camp Trainers for a day of joy and friendship!
We build the skills that make life easier: settling, bite-inhibition, recall foundations, and patient, polite behavior—trained with modern, reward-based methods you can repeat at home.
Socialization here means safe, structured, and age-appropriate: curated play, guided greetings, and confidence-building exposure—so your puppy grows up optimistic, not overwhelmed. Enrichment (slides, tunnels, exploration) turns “new and scary” into “new and doable.” It’s camp joy with a curriculum.
Explore new sights, sounds, surfaces, and mini-adventures in a controlled way—so your puppy learns to investigate, then recover and settle. This is how curiosity becomes confidence (and confidence becomes resilience).
We balance play with planned downshifts—potty breaks, calm crate/settle time, and quiet resets—so puppies regulate arousal and recharge. Rest is also when the brain processes the day’s experiences, helping new learning “stick” (instead of spiraling into overtired chaos).
Enjoy peace of mind knowing your pup is having a blast. With our Puppy Cam links, you can watch your puppy's adventures and activities in real-time.
Why families choose SmartyPup! Day Camp
Day Camp is more than “all‑day play.” It’s a real school track for puppies—your puppy doesn’t just go somewhere for the day, they move through a thoughtful learning curriculum designed for early development.
Built for the critical puppy weeks: Day Camp is designed specifically for young puppies, with daily practice in bite inhibition, city sounds, handling, alone‑time skills, and gentle social play—more than a generic “all‑day preschool.”
We train you too: You get clear homework, FAQs, follow‑up options, and brief daily check‑ins from our puppy trainers so you always know what your puppy worked on and how to support it at home. The goal isn’t just a smart puppy at Camp; it’s a smoother everyday life for you.
Camp Welcome & Assessment Day: $150 (required for all Camp packages)
A short pre‑Camp day where we meet you and your puppy, assess fit for Day Camp, and give you a brief behavior snapshot so we can tailor a plan and start on the right paw together.
Bonus: 2 free Puppy Socials ($70 value)
Strengthens learning pathways through repetition. Four days a week means your puppy doesn’t have much time to rehearse unwanted habits between visits, and trainers can build skills in lots of short, successful repetitions—making manners feel more automatic and easier for you to reinforce in daily life.
Best for: Families who want faster progress and strong follow‑through at home.
Maximizes the critical socialization window. Coming to Camp every weekday creates a predictable routine—same people, same games, same gentle rules—so polite behaviors become your puppy’s “normal,” and you simply reward those same good choices at home to keep them going long‑term.
Bonus: 3 free Puppy Socials ($105 value)
Best for: Families who want Camp woven into everyday life for a month.
Sets the essential early groundwork for confidence, attention, and social skills. A focused two‑week burst of daily training during the critical window—you get a responsive little learner to build with, and habits that stick when you practice at home.
Bonus: 1 free Puppy Social ($35 value)
Best for: Families who want a fast, focused jump‑start.
Partnership in training—we work with your puppy, you reinforce it at home. Three days a week lets us build the foundation while you’re the trainer the other four days, a rhythm that works beautifully if you’re ready to lead the learning between Camp days.
Bonus: 1 free Puppy Social ($35 value)
Best for: Work‑from‑home families who can actively partner in training.
Every experience your puppy has (and doesn’t have) between about 8–14 weeks wires how they see the world for the rest of their life—and those early weeks are prime time for building brave, resilient, “let’s-go-explore” puppy brains.
SmartyPup blends playful Day Camp vibes with modern, reward-based training to support the whole puppy—mind, body, and big puppy feelings.
More days at Camp = a more predictable routine = faster settling + better follow-through at home. Fewer Camp days can still work beautifully—it just means your puppy gets fewer coached reps each week, so progress leans more on you keeping up the same routine and training plan at home on the off days.
All of the packages work; the “right” one depends on how much you want the learning to stick and how often you’d like support.
3 days/week builds steady progress when you’re practicing at home between Camp days and keeping the same structure on non-Camp days.
4–5 days/week adds more frequent, well-spaced practice—so skills stay fresher from one day to the next, become more automatic, and are easier for you to reinforce in real life.
With fewer Camp days, you’re the primary coach on non-Camp days—so your puppy gets one clear story about what works everywhere.
With more Camp days, our trainer team carries more of the daily reps for you, and you get extra support to keep things feeling smooth at home.