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Behavioral rehabilitation, board-and-train, and concierge logistics for Belle Meade households — on twenty private acres, guaranteed until the standard is met.
Belle Meade families have brought their dogs to Agoge from across the broader West Nashville area — Hillwood, West Meade, the Boulevard, and the streets surrounding Belle Meade Country Club and Percy Warner Park. Many of our Belle Meade clients are multi-dog households with doodles, retrievers, and sport-bred working dogs, and the common thread is high expectations and limited time.
Belle Meade is about an hour from our facility in Hartsville — west across Nashville on I-40. For the families who want to skip the drive, our Elite Membership includes drop-off and pickup logistics for both training and boarding stays — so your dog’s program doesn’t compete with your travel calendar, your kids’ schedules, or your standing tee time.
Aggression, reactivity, fear, severe cases — the national referral for the dogs other trainers won’t take.
Every dog lives and learns on-site in Hartsville — 24/7 supervised, daily vet-scale weigh-ins, video-only updates.
Sprinter pickup at your Belle Meade door, airport & FBO meetups, boarding that sharpens — built into the Elite Membership.
Foundation → · Cohort → · Elite → · Puppy → · Behavior Modification →
We work with your dog until you have the dog you signed up for. If we haven’t hit the standard by program end, we keep working — at no additional cost — until we do.
Our facility sits on private land in Hartsville, Tennessee — roughly an hour from Belle Meade, west to east across Nashville via I-40 and TN-141. The drive is intentional. We’re close enough that drop-off and pickup are workable, but far enough out that the dogs in active programs get the focused, low-traffic environment that high-end training requires.
Frequently. Families from Belle Meade, Hillwood, West Meade, and the surrounding West Nashville neighborhoods are a meaningful share of our client base — particularly multi-dog households and families that travel. We’ve worked with every breed and temperament you’d find in these neighborhoods, from small companion dogs to working breeds. The protocol adapts to the individual dog — and the household it’s coming home to.
Honest answer? It depends on what you’re actually looking for. If you want a cookie-cutter, two-or-three-thousand-dollar program that runs every dog through the same script — this isn’t that. If you want a solution tailored to your specific dog and your family’s situation — then we’re your people.
Investment is walked through in person, during the consultation, after we’ve seen your dog. Every program is flat-rate and backed by the Agoge Commitment: we keep working until the standard is met, at no additional cost.
Yes. The fit check happens by phone first — fifteen minutes with Brian, not a sales call. If we’re a fit, the in-person consultation happens at the facility in Hartsville or in your home, depending on the case. Concierge pickup and drop-off for board-and-train programs is available through the Elite Membership.
From our 20-acre facility in Hartsville to the neighborhoods we know by name.
1075 Sleepy Hollow Ln · Hartsville, TN · By appointment only
