This six week class is appropriate for dogs under 4 months old. We focus heavily on puppy social skills, socialization to new sights, sounds, and experiences, and the foundational obedience cues that will give you the control you need to survive puppyhood! This class follows the Canine Life and Social Skills High School Curriculum, and it also meets the requirements for AKC STAR Puppy!

Things learned:

Group Social Skills

Sit & Down

Come & Collar Grab

Off leash Heel foundations

“Stay” Foundations

Confidence course - navigating scary things!

Name Game

Comfort around food bowl

Meeting Strangers

Body Handling for grooming and vet visits!

and much more!

Adult dogs no longer appropriate for Puppy High School should start at this level. This assumes your dog has comfort on a leash and collar, maybe knows some basic cues like sit and down, but still needs to learn obedience cues to help with day to day life!

Things learned:

Wait at the door

Come & Leash up calmly

Attentive loose leash walking

Meet and Greet!

Leave it

Wait for the Food Bowl

Stay

Settle

Give & Take (drop it)

And more!

This class focuses on expanding on cues learned in Bachelors by increasing the difficulty, duration, and distance of known cues! We will also learn new skills for new real life challenges!

Skills learned:

Wait in car before jumping out

Calmly pass other dogs

Wait at the door while stranger passes through

Sit-down-stand

Body handling for cooperative care

Loose leash walking over and past distractions

Stay + distance & distraction

Staying with a stranger (supervised separation)

This class offers your dog lots of new challenges! We work through challenging new environments and situations, as well as working towards learning the skills needed to pass the AKC Canine Good Citizen Test!

Skills learned:

Advanced Loose leash walking

Back up

Advanced Stay

Advanced Come and leash up

Handling done by a stranger such as a groomer or vet

Attention during HIGH distractions

Table Manners

Proofing cues for all environments

 Are you SERIOUS about making your dog the best behaved dog they can be and to have a dog that impresses family, friends, and is complimented by strangers in public? Or do you dream of your dog’s potential as a therapy dog or other assistance dog? Take your dog from zero to hero with our exclusive Intensive Obedience program!. We are taking ONLY 5 dogs for an exclusive group class opportunity that will only be offered twice yearly. This program includes:

5 months of training classes

Specialized, high criteria, and individualized feedback

detailed homework training plans (including guidance on how to easily maintain your dog’s progress during the holiday breaks) 

access to virtual trainer feedback any day of the week

Classmates committed to serious training and making their dog the best they can be

AKC VHMA-A/P title testing (after successful completion of unit 1)

AKC Canine Good Citizen testing (after unit 4)

AKC CGC-A, CGC-U testing (conclusion of unit 5)

Intensive obedience will be more demanding, have higher criteria, more detailed homework, and much more finely tuned trainer feedback in order to ensure you and your dog are meeting your goals. This level of training, feedback, and constructive criticism can be overwhelming to those in standard obedience classes, so this class is only for students ready to make a serious (yet extremely rewarding!) commitment to building a lasting bond with their dog and helping them be the best dog they can be.If you make this commitment you WON’T regret it. 

Note: We do not certify therapy dogs, testing must be done by an accepted organization of your choice. We also do not certify service dogs as there is no universal certifying body or standard for service dogs in the USA, and the ADA protects the right to self train. This class is simply the obedience foundations for impeccably behaved dogs in public spaces. 

5 month class price: $570