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.
This isn’t obedience training. It’s developmental immersion.
Why families choose SmartyPup Day Camp. A real school track for puppies. Camp is part of a bigger path: Puppy 1, Puppy 2, Puppy 3, socials, and tune‑ups, so your puppy doesn’t just “go somewhere for the day”—they move through a thoughtful learning curriculum.
Built for critical puppy weeks. Day Camp is designed specifically for 8–14 week 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, and follow‑up class options so you know exactly how to keep Camp skills going at home. The goal isn’t just a smart puppy at Camp; it’s a smoother everyday life for you.
Price: $1,840 + $150 Orientation Day Fee + 2 FREE Puppy Socials ($70 value)
Best for: Families who want faster progress and strong follow‑through at home. 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.
Price: $2,100 + $150 Orientation Day Fee + 3 FREE Puppy Socials ($105 value)
Best for: Families who want Camp woven into everyday life for a month. 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.
Price: $1150. + $150 Mandatory Orientation + 1 FREE Puppy Socials ($35 Value!)
Best for: Families who want a fast, focused jump‑start. Five days a week for two weeks gives your puppy a burst of consistent training during the day, so good habits get started quickly and are easier for you to practice at home in the evenings and on weekends.
Price: $1,560 + $150 Orientation Day Fee + 1 FREE Puppy Social ($35 value)
Best for: Work-from-home families who can actively partner in training. Three days a week gives us time to build the foundation—and you're the trainer the other four days. Short training bursts sprinkled throughout your day, every day, in every situation where you want cooperation. This rhythm works if you're ready to lead the learning when your puppy is home.
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.