Train my puppy
 without a leash? 

While any trainer understands that the average pet dog owner is mostly concerned with housetraining and manners, these are not the only urgent issues in puppy class. The two most urgent issues, the issues that can mean life or death later, are bite inhibition and socialization. Both of these issues
 REQUIRE lots and lots of off-leash play with other dogs and handling by everyone in the class. 

To focus on on-leash training while ignoring off-leash play is to put the cart before the horse. Of course it’s important for puppies to learn manners and for owners to learn how to train their pups. But what good is it to end up with an adolescent dog who walks nicely on leash but is inappropriate with other dogs, will do damage should he ever feel the need to bite someone and often feels the need to bite someone because he hasn’t been handled by anyone but his family ?

Not a pup anymore?

  Our philosophy here at WAGS is that you actually CAN teach an older dog new tricks... it just might take a bit longer.  So we offer classes that will get your "older pup" under control too.