Picking the puppy in Germany
Robert flies to Germany and spends three days with 12 Malinois puppies before choosing Schmoo. You watch what he looks for, what the breeder tells him, and why most people choose the wrong puppy for the wrong reasons.
What you do in the first 30 days determines everything that comes after.
Follow along day by day as Robert Cabral raises his Malinois puppy Schmoo from the moment he lands at the airport. Real footage. Real mistakes. Real results.
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Nobody warned you how hard this actually is.
The books made it sound simple. Get the puppy. Bond with the puppy. Train the puppy.
Nobody mentioned the 3am wake-ups. The biting that breaks skin. The crate screaming that makes you question everything you knew about dogs.
Most of the advice you find online is instructional. Sit. Down. Stay. How to hold the treat. It shows you what a trained dog looks like. It does not show you what to do at 5:30 in the morning on day three when your puppy won't stop screaming and you haven't slept since Tuesday.
It shows you the skills. It does not show you how to raise the dog. There is a difference.
The biggest mistake most owners make has nothing to do with technique. They start before the relationship exists.
The first 30 days are not about obedience. They are about building the foundation that makes everything else possible.
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Who's teaching you
Robert Cabral has been training dogs professionally for over 20 years.
He did not start in competition. He started in shelters, working with dogs nobody else wanted, dogs that had been written off, dogs whose owners had been told there was nothing left to try.
The First 30 Days with My Puppy is the first course Robert has built entirely from raw, daily footage shot over 30 consecutive days with his own Malinois puppy.
No script. No second takes. No pretending Schmoo understood something he did not.
Hall of FameIACP International, 2025
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“A puppy who does not trust you will not learn from you. He will comply under pressure and fall apart the moment that pressure is gone.”– Robert Cabral
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There is no course like this one.
Every other puppy course
- Scripted demonstrations
- Trained adult dog used as prop
- Clean studio lighting
- Shows the skills
- What to do
- Generic breed advice
First 30 Days with My Puppy
- Real daily footage, unedited
- Actual puppy on day one
- 5am, sweatpants, messy hair
- Shows how to raise the dog
- When to do it and why
- High-drive working breed reality
This course is for you if…
This is for you
- You just brought a puppy home and you are already overwhelmed
- You have a high-drive breed, Malinois, German Shepherd, Dutch Shepherd, Rottweiler, Doberman, and you knew it would be a lot but not this much
- You have had dogs before but not a puppy like this one
- You want to do this right the first time, not undo bad habits at 18 months
- You want to watch someone with over 20 years of experience do it in real time, in real conditions
This is not for you
- Dogs older than 6 months who need behavioral rehabilitation (Robert has other resources for that)
- People looking for a quick fix or a shortcut
- Anyone who believes forcing compliance is the same as building a relationship
30 days. 30 lessons. 18 hours of real footage.
Each video is one day. Each day is broken into chapters so you can skip directly to what you need. You must complete day one before day two, because the foundation built on day one is what makes day two possible.
The puppy comes home
What to do the moment your puppy walks through the door. Not training. Not sit. Robert shows you the one thing that must happen first and why skipping it creates problems that take months to undo.
The foundation
Crate introduction. First nights. Biting. How to handle the moments that test your patience. You see Robert getting up at 3am. You see Schmoo screaming in the crate. You see exactly what Robert does and does not do in response.
The first skills
Food luring. Basic positions. Hand feeding. Why Robert does not push the puppy into compliance. How to make training something the puppy wants, not something done to him.
Socialization in the real world
Home Depot. The mall. An assisted living facility. A park. How to take your puppy into the world before you think he is ready. What to watch for. What to correct. What to leave alone entirely.
Building what lasts
Integrating with the pack. Natural corrections from Goofy and Maya. Tug work. Drive building. How to finish the first 30 days with a puppy that is ready for everything that comes next.
Throughout the course
- Complete crate training protocol, the real version
- How to handle biting that does not stop
- Separation anxiety prevention from day one
- What to do when the puppy refuses the lure
- How to read whether the puppy is in a state to learn
- The difference between a training session and a socialization outing
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The results of doing the work.
The results are amazing. I've used your training since my puppy was 8 weeks old. He's now a year and a half and completely off leash. The work you do directly pays off with the results you get.
Your work with Goofy really helped us train our Malinois. They are so well behaved. Your methods and our consistency have really paid dividends.
I haven't had a high-drive breed since the 90s and forgot how difficult it was. Between your content I feel confident I can raise a great dog.
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- 18 hours of real footage
- Chapter navigation, skip to any topic
- Includes crate training mini-course
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Before you join
My puppy is already past 8 weeks. Did I miss something?
No. The course is built for puppies 8 weeks to 6 months old. If your puppy arrived last week or last month, you are still in the window. Start from day one and work through it.
My puppy is not a Malinois. Does this still apply?
Yes. The principles Robert uses with Schmoo apply to every breed. High-drive breeds benefit the most because the margin for error is smallest. But every puppy needs this foundation: how to learn, how to trust, how to engage.
Is this different from his free YouTube content?
Yes. His YouTube content is instructional. This is experiential. You are living the 30 days with him rather than watching a finished technique demonstrated with a trained dog.
What if the course is not what I expected?
Money-back guarantee. No questions asked. Robert stands behind it completely.
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At the end of 30 days you will have a puppy ready to learn anything.
Not a perfectly obedient dog. Not a finished product.
A puppy that trusts you. A puppy that wants to engage with you. A puppy that is ready for everything you want to build together.
That is what the first 30 days are actually for. And that is what Robert Cabral shows you how to get.
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