Puppy  Classes

 Beginner Puppy 

    The primary goal of our puppy classes is to produce willingly compliant, well-mannered, easily handle-able adult dogs. Our off-leash Beginner Puppy classes are for puppies between 10 weeks and 5 months of age (see Young Adult Manners and Obedience for pooches over 5 months). Class priorities are teaching Bite Inhibition (so your puppy develops a soft mouth), socializing your puppy to people (especially children, men, and strangers) and other dogs, and teaching basic manners such as sit, down, stand, and come. This is a 6 week class.  There must be a total of 6 dogs registered for the class to be held.  You should plan on attending all six classes!  The cost for this class is $80.

Advanced Puppy 

    These off-leash classes are reserved for Beginner Puppy Graduates only. Also, your pup also must not be older than18 months of age to register. In Advanced Puppy  classes, dogs and owners learn higher level obedience, including walking the pup on a loose leash, heeling, placement commands ("Go to your mat and settle down"), stays with heavy distractions, emergency recall, emergency down, and distance commands and recalls from play sessions. It is best to attend a Advanced Puppy class just as your dog is entering adolescence, usually around six to nine months of age to build good habits during this "teenage" stage of development.  This is a 6 week class.  The cost for this class is $70.  If you register and pay for both the Beginner Puppy and the Advanced Puppy classes at the same time, the total cost is $130.

Adult  Classes

Young Adult Manners and Obedience

    Our Young Adult classes are specifically designed for dogs that are too old to register for Beginner Puppy Class. We teach you and your dog all of the basic skills needed for a mannerly pet dog, and how to apply them in your day-to-day life. Our Young Adult classes are for quiet, people-friendly and dog-friendly dogs between the ages of 5 months and two years of age. Older dogs may be accepted if the owner has recently (within 3 months) adopted or otherwise acquired the dog. Classes are taught on leash at all times. Exercises covered include: Rev and Settle Down (calming the crazies), Reward training:  Watch, Stays, and Walking on a loose leash, Lure/Reward training position changes - Sit, Down and Stand, Lure/Reward training Loose-leash Heeling, Polite on-leash greetings.  This is a 6 week class.  You should plan on attending all six classes!  The cost for this class is $80.

Adult Refined Manners

   A detail-oriented class that builds on the foundation skills of Young Adult Manners & Obedience . The focus is on your dog’s reliability in responding to your requests on the first try, as well as reliability and focus in the presence of distractions. We will cover real-life manners training scenarios such as recalls away from food and other dogs, polite loose leash walking, Heel, Leave it and drop it, go to your mat, emergency recall, emergency down, motion commands, come-to-heel position, and some tricks. In Young Adult Refined Manners. we also focus on using hand signals and verbal requests to control your dog, minimizing the need for food rewards or a leash to communicate effectively.
Your dog is ready for Young Adult Refined Manners if she can focus on you most of the time in class, and can do sits, downs, and come with out a lure. If you're not there yet, you're welcome to repeat Young Adult Basic for more practice before moving forward, after all practice makes perfect!  This is a 6 week class.  The cost for this class is $70.  If you register and pay for both the Young Adult Manners and the Adult Refined Manners classes at the same time, the total cost is $130.