Adolescent & Adult Dog Training Classes
Want a better relationship and do more with your dog?
Whether you’re starting fresh or refining your dog’s manners, our adult dog classes are designed to strengthen the bond between you and your canine companion. Our Certified Trainers personalize the training to fit your dog’s age, experience, and learning style while keeping it upbeat and humorous.
Certified Dog Trainers + Positive Reinforcement
Our CPDT-KA & ABCDT certified trainers use modern, positive reinforcement methods to address challenges such as leash manners, reactivity, jumping, separation anxiety, impulse control, and focus around distractions. Each class builds practical skills that translate into everyday life, helping your dog become a calm, confident, and well-mannered member of your family.
From foundational obedience to advanced skills and enrichment-based learning, we’ll guide you every step of the way so you and your dog can enjoy life together to the fullest. Do you have a puppy under 8 months old? Visit our Puppy Training page. If you’re looking for AKC Rally, Agility, Scent Work be sure to check out our Dog Sports offerings!
Let us help you unlock your dog’s potential through connection, communication, and consistency!
Basic Dog Manners, Obedience & Reactivity Training
Adolescent Manners
The Teenage Phase: Thriving & Surviving
For dogs 8-18 months who suddenly seem to have forgotten all their manners!
4-Week Course • Limit 6 Dogs
Ages 8 -18 Months
Cost: $150
This class is designed to help you and your teen dog navigate the challenging adolescent stage with patience, positive reinforcement and a little bit of humor. You’ll learn how to grow or rebuild your teen dog’s focus, reinforce training, and bring back the calm, cooperative pup you remember. Longing for the sweet puppy from just a short time ago? Let us help train your teen dog into responsible adult!
🎯 Key Skills You’ll Learn
🐾 Reliable Recall and Attention Around Distractions – strengthen your dog’s focus and responsiveness
🤝 Calm Greetings and Polite Public Manners – teach friendly, appropriate interactions with people and other dogs
🚶♀️ Leash Manners During Walks – enjoy relaxed, connected walks without pulling or lunging
🌎 Confidence and Focus in New or Exciting Environments – help your teen dog adapt to unfamiliar places with ease
🩺 Cooperative Care Skills – make grooming, nail trims, and vet visits stress-free for both of you
💡 Strategies for Managing Overexcitement – guide your dog through emotional moments with patience and structure
🎯 Settle and Relax on Cue – teach your dog to unwind calmly at home, in class, or out in public
🧠 Problem-Solving and Thinking Games – boost mental engagement and channel that teenage energy productively
Why Choose This Class?
The teenage stage can be a handful! Your sweet puppy has turned into a rebel without a cause. Our Teen Dog class helps channel that energy into focus and confidence through positive, real-world training. You’ll learn practical skills to improve manners, leash behavior, and impulse control and better connection.
Adult Manners & Life Skills
Building Real-Life Skills and Manners
For dogs over 18 months learning basic skills and manners or are beginning their training journey.
4-Week Course • Limit 6 Dogs
Ages 18 Months +
Cost: $150
This foundational class focuses on improving your dog’s manners, building a communication system, and instilling confidence. You’ll learn how to teach your dog the essential life skills needed for a calm, happy household and stress-free outings. Using positive reinforcement, we turn everyday training into fun, achievable success for both ends of the leash.
🎯 Key Skills You’ll Learn
🐾 Sit and Down – reliable, calm alternatives to jumping or impulsive behavior. If you have these, we’ll add challenges!
🐶 Come and Collar Grab – recall that could save your dog’s life and strengthen your bond
🧘 Basic Stay – self-control and focus around distractions
🌉 Confidence Course – comfort with new sights, sounds, and surfaces
🔔 Name Game – positive attention and engagement when called
🍲 Comfort Around the Food Bowl – prevention of resource guarding
🤝 Meeting Strangers – calm behavior and polite public manners
🩺 Body Handling – cooperative care for grooming and vet visits
🐾 Advancing Leash Manners - Continue the road to happy and stress-free walks
Why Choose This Class?
Whether your Adult dog is new to training or just needs a fresh start, this class builds the foundation for everyday manners and clear communication. You’ll learn how to manage distractions, reinforce calm behavior, and teach essential life skills like leash walking, polite greetings, and coming when called.
4-Week Course • Limit 4 Dogs
Ages 9 Months +
Cost: $180
This class helps dogs build focus, self-control, calmer choices around distractions, and making better choices. You’ll learn simple engagement games, threshold awareness, management techniques, and structured calm behaviors. Note: If you are dealing with a dog who really go to the limits with reactivity please check out our private lessons.
🎯 Key Skills You’ll Learn
🐾 Simple focus and engagement games you can use anywhere
📏 Managing distance, duration, and intensity — your dog’s “thresholds”
🧠 Recognizing early signs of over-arousal before it escalates
🛟 Learning management techniques to prevent over-arousal
🔊 Understanding demand barking and how to reduce it for good
👀 Teaching your dog how to disengage and check in with you
🧘 Building the ability to settle after excitement
🏠 Practicing structured calm behaviors — sit, down, and place — around distractions
✨ Replacing big feelings with calmer choices, attention, and recovery skills
🧩 Creating realistic practice setups so your dog can succeed in real life
Why Choose This Class?
Choose this class if your dog gets easily excited, has a hard time settling, or struggles to focus around distractions. You’ll learn practical, positive strategies to help your dog make calmer choices, recover faster after excitement, and build skills you can use at home, on walks, and in public.
Worked Up! Focus & Reactivity
From Chaos to Calm
Dealing with jumping, lunging, barking? This class is for you!
Therapy Dog Training
Share the Love: Therapy Dog Prep
For sweet, social dogs and their people who want to make a difference.
6-Week Course • Limit 6 Dogs
Ages 9 Months +
Cost: $180
Do you and your dog have a heart for helping others? This 6-week class helps prepare dog-and-handler teams for therapy dog evaluation skills, including the more rigorous Pet Partners-style test items. Teams will practice calm greetings, polite handling, real-world distractions, loose-leash walking, visit etiquette, and safe interactions in both classroom settings and field trips.
In this class, you’ll work on:
Calm greetings with friendly strangers
Accepting petting, grooming, handling, and hugs
Walking politely through distractions and crowds
Sit, down, stay, recall, and leave it skills
Appropriate therapy dog visit manners
Reading your dog’s body language and advocating for them
Field-trip practice in real-world environments
Preparing for therapy dog evaluation-style exercises
AKC Canine Good Citizen
AKC Canine Good Citizen Prep Class and Testing
CGC Prep Class: Calm, Confident, and Reliable
For advanced dogs who’ve completed Adult Manners or are ready to polish their manners for the AKC Canine Good Citizen test.
5-Week Course • Limit 6 Dogs
Ages 9 Months +
Cost: $170
This 5 week class is designed to polish your dog’s manners and reliability for real-life success and prepare you both for the AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) test. You’ll work on advanced focus, impulse control, and teamwork through practical exercises that mirror everyday situations. Each lesson strengthens your dog’s confidence, self-control, and ability to respond calmly in new or distracting environments. This class includes the Testing for your dog to receive earn their AKC Canine Good Citizen Title.
🎯 Key Skills You’ll Learn
🎯 Advanced Loose-Leash Walking – walk smoothly while holding an object, maintaining focus and position even around obstacles
↩️ Back Up – teach your dog to move backward on cue for better control and spatial awareness
🧘 Advanced Stay – maintain position calmly as you move, place objects, or step away
🐕🦺 Advanced Come & Leashing-Up Manners – recall past distractions, then ca6lmly reattach the leash before release
🤝 Meet & Greet with Body Handling – polite interaction with strangers, including gentle petting and touch
👀 Attention During High Distraction – maintain eye contact and focus even as new people enter or noises occur
🍽️ Table Manners – remain settled and composed while people eat or talk nearby
🪑 Do You Really Know Sit? – respond accurately to “sit” cues in different contexts and positions, proving true understanding and reliability
🚗 Load Up & Exit Calmly – enter and exit the car with patience and control for safety in public settings
🏅 CGC Practice Stations – rehearse all ten Canine Good Citizen test elements with trainer feedback and real-life setup
Why Choose This Class?
This is the finishing touch for teams who want a truly dependable, well-mannered dog. Whether your goal is to earn the CGC title or simply have a dog you can take anywhere with confidence, this class provides the skills and coaching you need. You’ll leave with a dog who’s not just trained but connected, composed, and ready to shine in the real world. You will take the CGC Test as part of this class.
Common Dog Behavior Problems Solved
Real-World Results for Happier Dogs & Owners
🐾 Stop Leash Pulling – enjoy relaxed, polite walks anywhere
🐾 End Jumping on People – calm, friendly greetings without chaos
🐾 Fix Poor Recall – get your dog to come when called, every time
🐾 Stop Door Dashing – prevent bolting through doors or gates
🐾 Curb Counter Surfing – keep paws (and noses) off the countertops
🐾 Reduce Barking – quiet confidence without constant noise
🐾 Prevent Reactivity or Aggression – calmer responses to dogs and people
🐾 Ease Separation Anxiety – confident, relaxed behavior when left alone
🐾 Stop Chewing & Destructive Habits – protect furniture and belongings
🐾 Prevent Resource Guarding – peaceful sharing of toys, food, and space
🐾 Fix Attention Problems – get focus even around major distractions
🐾 End Jumping on Furniture or Guests – polite manners in every room
🐾 Stop Ignoring Commands – reliable listening skills that last
🐾 Ease Fear & Build Confidence – handle new places, sounds, and people with ease
🐾 Improve Handling & Grooming Behavior – calm cooperation during nail trims and brushing
🐾 House Manners & Potty Training – create structure and peace at home
Dog Training Classes FAQ’s
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The natural progression is to start with Adolescent Manners for dogs 8-18 months old and progress to Adult Manners for Dogs over 18 months.
For Dogs 12 months or older that need work on specific behaviors or problems the Adult Dog Open Training is a great option.
You can then finish with the Canine Good Citizen prep class or move into dog sports.
Note: You may enter any level with instructor permission
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Jumping, leash pulling, reactivity, barking, anxiety, fearfulness, aggression toward other dogs, counter surfing, door manners, and more.
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Many reactive dogs can attend with management strategies in place. Severe reactivity may be better suited to private lessons. If you have unsure, please contact us and we’ll guide you.
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All classes are capped at a maximum of 6 dogs or less to ensure safety, coaching attention, and progress. Our huge training areas ensure each dog has appropriate space.
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No. We train using positive reinforcement, science-based methods, and humane tools only.
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Please bring a 5-6 foot leash, flat buckle or martingale collar, about 100 treats (tiny pieces of cheese or turkey - about ¼ the size of a small store bought dog treat), and a willingness to learn.
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Most group classes run 4–6 weeks, 45–60 minutes per session.
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Yes — workshops and classes include leash skills, trick training, scent games, house manners, agility foundations, and more.
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Yes. Trainers can help place you in the best class for your dog’s skill level and learning style.
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No — we believe owners must be involved in the training process. We focus on coaching you to train your dog successfully.