Group Classes

Our S.T.A.R. course offers comprehensive guidance for puppies under 6 months who have received a Bordatella and 2 rounds of puppy vaccines. Upon completion of this course, your dog will be eligible for our Beginner Obedience and our House Manners courses, regardless of their age. Our S.T.A.R Puppy focuses on four key aspects:

Socialization: Puppies interact with different people, dogs, and environments, promoting confidence in themselves, their owners, and the world around them.

Training: Basic obedience commands like sit, stay, and come are taught, building a strong bond between you and your pup.

Activity: Engage with your dog to keep them mentally stimulated and prevent boredom and destructive behavior.

Responsibility: Learn essential puppy care, including basic grooming and handling, potty training, and more.

Class Length: 6 weeks

If your dog struggles to relax, gets overly excited at a doorbell ringing, a guest coming to visit, or a neighbor walking their dog past the home, this course is for you. Throughout this class, we will teach our dogs a series of behaviors aimed at increasing impulse control. When applied in real-life, these behaviors enable our dogs to manage their behavior appropriately while lessening the need for constant handler intervention. We will teach you to walk your pup around the neighborhood, relax on place, stand quietly to be groomed, practice manners around food, and even learn some fun tricks as you deepen your bond.

Class Length: 6 weeks

Learn the basics of dog obedience as you prepare to take the AKC’s Canine Good Citizen test. This course covers a 10 foundational skills your dog needs to live a fulfilling life. Dogs will learn commands such as sit, down, stay, come, loose-leash walking, neutrality around other dogs, how to interact appropriately with people, proper reactions to medical equipment, eye contact, and more. Humans can expect to learn the basics of canine communication. This includes when, where and how, to communicate your wishes, how to know whether your dog understands you, and how to make your communication clearer for your furry friend.

Class Length: 6 weeks

Requires prior completion of Beginner Obedience or CGC Curriculum Board and Train Program. (Students do not need to obtain their CGC title to be eligible for this course). Advanced obedience builds off of the principles taught in our Beginner class, as students work towards their CGC—Advanced or “Community Canine” title. This course prepares dogs for off-leash reliability in high distraction environments such as patio dining, hiking and camping, attending farmer’s markets or public events and more. We focus on fine-tuning our dog’s behavior in increasingly difficult environments through the addition of the 3 D’s of dog-training; distance, duration, and distractions.

Class Length: 6 weeks

Requires completion of Beginner and Advanced Obedience courses. In this 6 week course we will work with owners and their dogs to prepare them for the AKC Urban Canine Good Citizen Test and prepare them to serve their community as a certified Therapy Team. This course includes outings to local pet-friendly businesses where dogs will practice skills such as stairs, elevators, loading in and out of vehicles, working around medical equipment, safely interacting with members of the public, and more. Upon successful completion, teams may apply to the Pets Helping People Therapy Team.

Class Length: 6 weeks

Learn the basics of clicker training and better your communication with your dog as you work on foundational skills like “go to mark”, paw and nose targeting, and “paws up” commands. We’ll help you generalize these skills through the use of different surfaces and heights. The skills learned translate easily to everyday life whether for grooming, vet visits, or fun party tricks. The final week of class, teams will get to use the skills they’ve built to apply for the Novice Trick Dog Title through the AKC.

Class Length: 6 weeks

*Dogs must have previously completed a basic obedience course. Jump into the action! Agility is an exciting sport where dog and handler navigate their way through a series of obstacles competing for time and accuracy. This 5-week introductory class will introduce dogs and handlers to the rules of AKC agility competition. You and your dog will get on the course, learning how to navigate all the obstacles from jumps and tunnels to contact obstacles. Agility is suitable for any breed of dog that would love to get out and get active with its owner in a fun and challenging learning environment.

**Dogs must have previously completed a basic obedience course and an Intro to Agility class. Building on the skills taught in the intro to agility class. This 5 week Advanced course will introduce new handling skills such as: front crosses, rear crosses, lead outs and send outs. Additionally a variety of agility skills "games" will be presented to teams to improve their handling and control of their dog in an off-leash run. Students will be introduced to the additional types of AKC agility courses that can be entered. For the final week the teams will be introduced to an ACT Jumpers course.

*Dogs must have previously completed a basic obedience course. The sport of Scent Work celebrates the joy of sniffing, and asks a dog to sniff to their heart’s content; turning your dog’s favorite activity into a rewarding game. Based on the work of professional detection dogs (such as military and police K9’s) your dog will be introduced to essential oils as the “target odor.” The ultimate game of hide-n-seek, dog and handler navigate 4 scenarios: interior, exterior, Containers & buried hide looking for trace amounts of odor.

**Dogs must have previously completed a basic obedience course and an Intro to Scentwork class. Building upon the skills learned in intro to scent work this class is for dogs already familiar with birch as a target odor and the elements of: interior, exterior, buried, and container searches at the novice level. Advanced scentowrk will prepare your dog for the next level of AKC Scentwork trails by introducing water buried elements, anise, clove, and cypress odor. Advanced container searches and increased difficulty to interior and & exterior searches as well as team building activities for dog and handler.

*Dogs must have previously completed a basic obedience course. Rat Hunt is a new and exciting activity for the dog in your life! This sport was created around a dog’s natural love for hunting vermin and has become both a safe and exciting challenge for dog, handler and spectators alike. Owners will enjoy watching their dogs use their natural skills to climb and burrow tunnels in the search for a RAT! Rats are kept safe in tubes allowing dogs to use their sense of smell to sniff out the hidden rodent. This 4-week introductory class will introduce owners to the skills they need to enhance their dogs natural hunting ability and teach the dogs how to ALERT to the rat.