Beginner Classes
Get your canine off on the right paw with these foundational courses designed to help with behavior essentials, such as potty training, basic commands, controlled walking, and more.
Please complete the registration form to sign up for our beginner classes.
Puppy Raising 101
Age Range: 6 weeks to 20 weeks
Course Duration: Orientation and 6 classes
Requirements: None
The first five months of your puppy’s life shapes reactions to the environment for the rest of it. Don't miss this critical stage of development! Teach your puppy to play with others, become desensitized to noise, learn manners, get potty trained, and more.
Neo-Dog I
Age Range: 20 weeks to 20 months
Course Duration: 7 weeks
Requirements: None
Nurture your dog through adolescence by teaching him or her life-saving commands such as: “sit,” “come,” “go to your crate/mat,” “watch me,” and more. This course will also break your canine’s bad habits—such as jumping up, chewing, mouthing, and barking—and improve impulse-control skills.
Foundation Course
Age Range: 21 months and up
Course Duration: 8 weeks
Requirements: None
Teach your adult dog to sit, lie down, come when called, walk loose-leash, pay attention in an emergency, and obey hand targets. This course also prevents problematic behaviors such as jumping up, chewing, mouthing, and barking.
Canine Good Citizen
Age Range: 20 weeks and up
Course Duration: 4 weeks
Requirements: Completion of Neo-Dog I or Foundation Course
Prepare and test your canine for the American Kennel Club’s (AKC) Canine Good Citizen (CGC) certification program. The AKC certification program stresses responsible pet ownership for owners and basic good manners for dogs by testing handler and dog teams on 10 items.
Canine Connection
Age Range: 20 weeks and up
Course Duration: 8-week course
Requirements: Completion of Neo-Dog I or Foundation Course
Learn to read canine body language so you can recognize your dog’s signs of stress and unlock the possibilities of training with the clicker, a training method that’s been proven to motivate and stimulate dogs in training. This course serves as preparation for our advanced curriculum.
Walk With Me
Age Range: Any
Course Duration: 5 weeks
Requirements: None
Imagine the freedom of walking with your dog on loose leash! Perfect keeping the leash slack and your dog "with you" through this fun and enlightening course.
Total Recall
Age Range: Any
Course Duration: 7 weeks
Requirements: None
Improve your dog’s ability to come reliably when called. This course increases in difficulty each week.
Nose Knows: Introduction to Nose Work
Age Range: Any Course
Duration: 7 weeks
Requirements: None
Teach your dog to use his or her nose to find the prize! The art and practice of nose work makes basic search-dog skills available to companion dogs. For more information check out the National Association of Canine Scent Work at http://www.funnosework.com.