Puppy Raising 101
Age Range: 8 weeks to 15 weeks
Price: JUST $25 thanks to a generous grant from the Animal Assistance Foundation for the 2026 class cycle.
Course Duration: Orientation and 7 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.
S.T.A.R. Puppy Elementary
Age Range: 16 weeks to 1 year
Price: $300
Course Duration: Orientation and 6 classes
Requirements: None
This class is for puppies that are over 15 weeks but under one years old. This class will cover all the basic puppy topics including class time and supplimental reading on noise and movement desensitization, socialization, and more. In addition, this class covers cues such as sit, down, recall, loose-leash walking, trades, hand targeting, and more. Puppies will also test for their AKC Star Puppy Title at graduation.
NeoDog 1
Age Range: 16 weeks and up
Price: $250 ($125 for Puppy Raising 101 Graduates), $25 deposit REQUIRED
Course Duration: 6 weeks
Requirements: None
In NeoDog 1, we teach behaviors such as "sit", "down", loose-leash walking, recall, and impulse control. We work on teaching these behaviors and then making them reliable anywhere, anytime! We also talk about our positive reinforcement and relationship-based training methods, and how and why they work. Learn the basic skills and cues your pup needs to be a well-mannered dog and make both your lives easier!
Control Unleashed
Age Range: 5 months and up
Price: $200, $25 deposit REQUIRED
Duration: 6 weeks
Requirements: Recommendation from an instructor or behavior counselor.
Control Unleashed teaches pattern games developed by Leslie McDevitt with the goal of helping strengthen engagement and communication between you and your dog. These pattern games are extremely helpful in making novel environments and situations easier for a dog. This class is perfect for just about any dog and the pattern games can be adapted to meet the needs of any dog and handler team.
NeoDog 2
Age Range: 20 weeks and up
Price: $250, $25 deposit REQUIRED
Course Duration: 6 weeks
Requirements: Graduation from NeoDog 1
Middle School!
This course is a continuation of NeoDog 1, where you and your dog will refine your basic obedience skills. You will also start learning proper manners for behaving in public, along with working on a recall that could save your dog's life.
Canine Connection
Age Range: 6 months and up
Price: $250, $25 deposit REQUIRED
Course Duration: 6 weeks
Requirements: Graduation from Neo-Dog 2
High School!
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 advance curriculum.
Canine Good Citizen
Age Range: 6 months and up
Price: $150, $25 deposit REQUIRED
Course Duration: 4 weeks
Requirements: None
Honor Roll!
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.
Nose Knows - Intro to Nosework
Age Range: Any
Price: $225, $25 deposit REQUIRED
Duration: 6 weeks
Requirements: None
ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR CLASSES, AND FOR GOOD REASON! 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
Looking to compete? Inquire about our "Intro to Odor" class! Already "on odor?" Inquire about our drop in NACSW Nosework classes!
Trick Dog Foundation
Age Range: 6 months and up
Price: $200, $25 deposit REQUIRED
Course Duration: 6 weeks
Requirements: Graduation from NeoDog 1
It's time to have fun! Trick Dog Foundations is a 6 week course that focuses on the flashier aspects of training. Teach your companion how to spin, play dead, unroll a mat, or something else entirely! Your class will culminate in brief performance that shows off their new skills. You will also learn enough behaviors to be able to test for your AKC Novice Trick Dog title at the end of class.
Intro to Agility
Age Range: All
Price: $225
Course Duration: Orientation and 5 in-person classes
Requirements: None
Take your canine through obstacle training in this introduction to agility class. Great for seeing if agility is something you and your dog want to do seriously or as just a fun class for you to do with your dog
Canine Freestyle
Age Range: All
Price: $225, $25 deposit REQUIRED
Course Duration: 8 weeks
Requirements: Graduation from Canine Conncetion
Have a dance party with your dog! Teach your dog to move with you to the music. Both choreography and handling classes are available.
Rally Obedience
Age Range: All
Price: $30 per session
Course Duration: Drop-In
Requirements: None
Navigate a fun, sporty course with signs indicating different exercises to perform. Competing in this sport helps you and your dog improve balance, focus, and control.
Total Recall
Age Range: Any
Price: $250, $25 deposit REQUIRED
Course Duration: 7 weeks
Requirements: Graduation from NeoDog 1
Improve your dog's ability to come reliably when called. This course increases in difficulty each week.
Walk With Me
Age Range: Any
Price: $250, $25 deposit REQUIRED
Course Duration: 6 weeks
Requirements: Neo-Dog1 or referral. Dogs with Reactivity must have a behavior referral
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. Please note that this class is not a standard class offering.
Outdoor Adventure
Age Range: All
Price: $250, $25 deposit REQUIRED
Course Duration: 8 weeks
Requirements: Graduation from Canine Connection
Confront real-life situations designed to teach your dog reliable behavior no matter where you go. This is a required class in order to take any of the other Outdoor Adventure classes. These more advanced classes include OA Extreme: Hiking, OA Extreme: Water, OA Extreme: Restaurants, and OA Extreme: Nighttime.
