Board and train, Cinco Ranch
Board and train in Cinco Ranch: Katy's biggest master-planned community
Cinco Ranch is thousands of homes, miles of trails, a pool in every section and a dog behind most doors, and the dogs we see from it have too much energy for a house that is empty from eight to three. The stay gives that dog a job, and the handover on the Cinco trails shows the family how to keep it.
Last reviewed September 11, 2026 · by the Best Dog University Team
- Drive to the training home
- About 25 to 35 minutes to Cypress via Grand Parkway (99) outside rush hour.
- Pickup and delivery
- $250 door-to-door pickup and return across Cinco Ranch, Grand Lakes and Seven Meadows, with the first lesson in your home. Included in VIP.
- The go-home session
- In Cypress for drop-off families; on your trail, at your door and at the pool gate with transport and for every VIP graduate.
- Where we train near you
- the sidewalks, stores and trails around Cypress during the stay · the Cinco Ranch trails and Exploration Park for the go-home session · the LaCenterra patios for the settle · the pet and hardware stores on Cinco Ranch Boulevard and I-10
- Homes and yards
- Master-planned sections with HOA rules, sidewalks, community pools and trails; young families with Labs, goldens, doodles and German shepherds.
The stay, from Cinco Ranch
Half an hour up 99, or the transport with the handover on the Cinco trails.
Grand Parkway makes Cinco Ranch to Cypress a straightforward half hour, and families split between dropping off and taking the $250 transport for a go-home session on their own street, at the pool gate and on the trail past the neighbors' dogs. Your dog joins our household for the stay, sleeps in a crate in the home and works every day in the house and out on field trips; updates come Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
The last field trips for a Cinco Platinum dog head back toward Katy: the Cinco trails at a quiet hour, the stores off I-10, a LaCenterra patio, so the family's own environment has been met before the handover.
The free phone consultation; program and dates set
Drop-off in Cypress or pickup at your Cinco Ranch door
Day one in the crate and the house; the program from day two
Field trips around Cypress, then the Cinco trails and LaCenterra
Updates Monday, Wednesday and Friday
The go-home session in Cypress or on your trail, door and pool gate
Unlimited lessons with Platinum, lifetime support
What a Cinco Ranch dog learns
The trail, the window, the school-bus greeting and the pool gate.
The Cinco Ranch dog is a family dog with nothing to do until three: by ten months it pulls toward every dog on the trails, barks at the window all day, jumps on the kids at the door and treats the pool as its own. The shepherds and Dobermans in the newer sections add guarding at the front door and lunging on the trails. Gold installs place, the calm greeting, the structured walk and impulse control. Platinum adds the behavior work for the guarders and the lungers, neutrality built at a distance on real trails, and unlimited lessons afterwards so every family member learns the handling. The pool rule is built at the lake near Cypress and transferred at your pool.
- A loose leash on the Cinco trails past other dogs and strollers
- Quiet at the window during delivery hours
- A calm greeting when the bus stops
- A wait at the pool gate and a recall out of the water
Programs and prices
Gold or Platinum, with the transport as the common add-on.
Cinco Ranch families split between Gold at $2,500 and Platinum at $3,750, or $2,750 and $4,000 door to door with the transport. VIP at $10,000 is the finished off-leash dog, transport included. The reservation deposit is $250, credited to the program, and the pricing page carries every number.
| Program | Length | Price | Door to door |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 2 weeks | $2,500 | $2,750 |
| Platinum | 3 weeks | $3,750 | $4,000 |
| VIP | 6 weeks | $10,000 | Included |
Cinco Ranch specifics
HOA rules, community lakes, Millie Bush and a long hot summer.
Cinco Ranch's sections enforce barking and leash rules, so the quiet cue and the structured walk are part of every Cinco stay. The community lakes have rules against swimming and can hold an alligator in the warm months, so water manners are built at the lake near the training home and transferred to your pool. Millie Bush Bark Park is the off-leash park Cinco families use, and a Platinum graduate's first visit is a walk of the fence line on a leash. Summer is long and the trails have little shade; the stay runs on the dawn-and-dusk schedule with the I-10 store aisles at noon.
- Quiet cue and structured walk for the HOA
- Community lakes for the long line, not swimming
- Millie Bush only after the recall exists
- Dawn and dusk trails in summer
The programs
Programs Cinco Ranch families book.
Gold for the wild ones, Platinum for the guarders and lungers, VIP for the finished dog, the bundle before any of it starts.
Asked and answered
Questions people ask about this.
Do you pick up in Cinco Ranch?
Yes, anywhere in Cinco Ranch, Grand Lakes, Seven Meadows or Cross Creek Ranch, for $250 both trips including the first lesson in your home. VIP includes it, and the go-home session for transport families happens on your own trail.
How long is the drive from Cinco Ranch to the training home?
About 25 to 35 minutes up Grand Parkway outside rush hour. Many families drop off themselves; the transport is there if you want the handover at your house and pool gate.
Can you help a dog that barks all day while we are at work?
Yes. Window barking is structure and management: no free access to the window, place with duration through deliveries, a quiet cue and a routine that tires the dog's mind before you leave. It is built in a Gold or Platinum stay and kept at home.
What do you do with a shepherd that guards our front door?
Platinum. Door work with real deliveries and guests, neutrality to strangers at a distance, structure the dog can rely on, and unlimited lessons afterwards so every adult runs the door the same way.
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Cinco Ranch families start with a call.
Tell our team what your dog does at the window and at the pool. The free phone consultation is a direct call, and the reservation deposit is $250.