How to Build a Dog Training Weekly Plan with Session Caps
Dog-training plans fail when the model writes a boot camp. It invents 45-minute sessions, a shock-collar protocol, a calorie count, and a "fixed in two weeks" promise. You try it. The dog shuts down. The job is a weekly plan from the caps and skills you named, force-free, with a not-veterinary-advice banner, and no invented minutes.
The matching generator is the Dog Training Weekly Plan with Session Caps prompt. Browse related cards in the PromptDig library (Browse more prompts). When a filled run survives, share the version you actually use (Share a prompt).
Caps are Facts. Skills are a list, not a curriculum catalog.
Situation: dog age/energy only as you stated, household (kids, other pets) only if named. Facts: session cap (for example 8 minutes, twice on weeknights), skills you want (sit, leash start), what already works. Constraints: no walks after 8 if you said so, apartment hallway, etc. Safety: no aversives if you said force-free; bite history only if you volunteered it. Banner: not veterinary advice. Prefs: treats you actually use, if named.
If minutes are unnamed, the plan uses "short sessions" plus a gap, not 15 minutes because that is a common blog number. If the dog's age is unnamed, do not guess puppy vs adult drills.
Force-free schedule, then a not-vet banner
The generator should emit a week grid with session caps copied, skills from Facts only, and a rest day if you asked for one. Each session: setup, one skill, end-on-success if you named that preference, stop at the cap.
Do not invent:
- Session length
- Calorie or treat counts unless Facts named them
- Veterinary diagnoses
- Medication
- Shock, prong, or alpha rolls
- "Board and train in 14 days"
- Breed stereotypes as science
Safety: if Facts include growling on leash, the plan can suggest hiring a credentialed trainer and stopping the drill. It cannot diagnose. Not veterinary advice. Not a behaviorist report.
De-identify vet clinic names and your address if they appeared in a paste.
Contingencies: skip, shorten, do not pile on
If a session is missed, the contingency is skip or one makeup inside the cap, not a double session. If the dog disengages, end. Do not add minutes to "catch up."
Gaps: missing cap, missing age, missing what already works, missing whether a trainer is involved, missing health limits. Five bullets.
A worked pass: eight minutes, two skills, no boot camp
Situation: adult dog, apartment. Facts: cap 8 minutes, two weeknights plus Saturday, skills sit and leash-start at the door. Safety: force-free only. Banner: not veterinary advice. Prefs: food rewards you already use, unnamed brand.
Plan: six sessions max, 8 minutes, sit or leash-start not both if time runs out. Saturday is a hallway leash-start, not a hike you did not name. Contingency: if evening is chaos, skip, do not stack 16 minutes. Gaps: age in years, health, whether kids appear during sessions.
If the model writes 30-minute downs and a prong-collar "option," throw the plan away. If it promises a polite heel in seven days, cut the promise. The week is a cap with two skills, not a transformation.
If Saturday is the only long window you have, still split it into two capped sessions with a rest between, rather than one long block. Write the rest in the grid. If Prefs named a marker other than food, use that marker. Do not add a second reinforcer from a blog. If the dog is recovering from something Family mentioned without details, Gaps should include "health clearance," not a stretch protocol.
Fill the card, then run
Paste the minutes you will actually do and the skills you care about this week. Keep the not-veterinary-advice banner.
Household / situation: [Situation]
Facts and numbers I have: [Facts]
Constraints: [Constraints]
Safety notes: [Safety]
Not-advice needs: [Banner]
Preferences: [Prefs]
A cap you will keep beats a heroic schedule you will skip. When a run refuses extra minutes and aversives, share that filled card.