Describe your service and the behaviors you need to understand. Makeform creates a structured intake covering the dog's history, routine, concerns, and the owner's goals.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Private-training clients
Format
Conditional multi-step intake
Prompt size
367 chars
Example questionnaire structure
Conditional multi-step intake
Dog profile and household
Which behaviors would you like help with?
Describe the most recent incident
Has your dog bitten or attempted to bite?
Your top three training goals
Suggested routing tags
New puppy
Reactivity
Private training
Ask what happened before, during, and after a behavior. A recent example is more useful than a label.
Step 1
Describe
service, audience, concerns, and goals
Step 2
Generate
organized intake fields and follow-up branches
Step 3
Review
trainer checks context before the appointment
Step 4
Prepare
session plan starts from the client's real priorities
Better first consultations
A structured intake gives trainers useful history before the consultation and keeps essential details out of scattered messages.
Conditional questions capture observable triggers, setting, distance, sequence, and recovery.
Capture people, pets, routines, equipment, rewards, and schedule constraints.
Ask owners to rank goals and describe recognizable improvement.
Useful across services
Keep a consistent record while changing questions for each selected service.
Gather history, household routines, a recent example, and ranked goals.
Organize development, home setup, social experiences, house training, mouthing, sleep, and foundational-skill questions.
Branch into triggers, body language, management, bite details, and existing videos.
Ask concise environment and behavior questions so the trainer can discuss whether a group setting matches the dog's current needs.
Build your intake
Describe your service, refine the generated questions, and share the form.
Name the program, client, accepted concerns, required details, and follow-up triggers.
Use neutral language and show bite-detail questions only after a yes response.
Publish or embed the questionnaire, notify the reviewer, and route records as needed.
Review goals, history, triggers, and examples. Discuss unclear answers with the client.
Intake approaches
A useful intake is easy for owners to complete and trainers to review.
Field guide
Use these six sections as an intake outline. Keep questions factual and discuss interpretation with the client.
Dog profile
Identify the dog and establish context. Allow owners to mark unknown details.
Home life
Ask who shares the home and what an ordinary day looks like.
Behavior details
Collect what the owner sees, where it happens, and the sequence around it.
Safety history
Use a yes-or-no gateway followed by calm fields for attempts, contact, dates, and context.
Training history
Ask what was tried, what helped, and what was difficult to maintain.
Goals and logistics
Ask clients to rank goals, describe desired changes, and share access needs.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for trainers preparing a clearer new-client intake.
It is a pre-service intake covering the dog, household, routine, training history, concerns, safety history, and goals. A trainer reviews it before a consultation or class. It organizes owner context; it is not a diagnosis.
Ask about dog and owner details, adoption history, household, routine, previous training, equipment, rewards, and ranked goals. For each concern, ask where it occurs, what precedes it, what the owner observes, what follows, and what they tried.
Use neutral language and include attempts as well as contact. After a yes, ask who was involved, when and where it happened, whether skin was broken, and the sequence around it. Avoid blame and prepare clarifying questions.
Yes. Conditional logic can show bite details after a yes, trigger questions after reactivity is selected, or puppy-routine questions for puppy clients. This collects depth without showing irrelevant fields.
Yes. Add uploads for existing videos, images, or relevant records. Tell owners not to recreate a concerning event. The trainer can discuss anything unclear during the consultation.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for creating, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge. Edit the generated questionnaire before sharing it.
Yes. Tailor one core structure by service. Puppy intake can emphasize routines, private training can gather fuller history, and group-class screening can focus on comfort in that environment.
Responses arrive in your Makeform inbox. Configure notifications or connect Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Decide who reviews intakes and what needs clarification before an appointment.
Know the dog before the first session.
