Group Classes
Intro to Scent Work Virtual Class
This will be an online group class that teaches from the very beginning the fundamentals of sent work, box searches, room searches, and chair searches. You will be training your dog off birch scent. This class has a virtual classroom, handouts, homework, and videos to submit. This class ran last year and had a full roster and was a huge success.
Cost: $200
Dates: January 6th-February 24th. 9:30-10:30 am
(payment plans are available but full payment is due by Jan. 6th)
Intermediate Scent Work Virtual Class
Prerequisite for this class is the Intro to Scent Work class. This is an online virtual class that will be working with more advanced searches, Adding an additional scent to the previously trained birch scent. Discrimination task work, scent distractions, low and high searches, box searches, chair searches, and some outdoor searches.
Cost: $200
Dates: January 6th- February 24th, 11am-12pm.
(payment plans are available, but full payment is due by Jan. 6th).
Intro to Allergen Detection Class
This class is geared towards any service dog that needs to be trained specifically for allergen detection. Handlers will be able to choose the allergen that they need to work with, learn how to work with the allergen substance safely, train the scent detection, the alert indicator, cross contamination, randomization, accounting for human bias, discrimination work, and real time identification. Video submissions will be required.
Cost: $270
Dates: January 9th-February 27th 6:30-745pm
(payment plans are available but full payment is due by June 4th).
Cooperative Care Class I: Virtual Vet Handling and Prep Class
This training will deal with solving behavioral issues such as aggression towards people or other animals, eliminating habits like barking, jumping on people, scratching, destructive behaviors, crate training, loose leash walking, sit/stay, down/stay, recall, and setting off-limit areas for the dog to reduce the stress of separation anxiety such as crate training or a gradual transition to free roaming in the home.
Cost: $200
Dates: March 5th- April 30th 6:30- 7:30pm
(payment plans are available, but full payment is due by March 5th).
Service Dog Public Access Group Classes
These Classes are designed to allow service dogs in training and trained service dogs to continue working on public access, new environments, dog neutrality, task work in public settings, and having support from other service dog handlers while building a community. These are more challenging trips and geared towards dogs that have already been doing some public access work in their private 1:1 classes.
Cost: $50/hr
Dates: TBD (use contact form for updates on events)
(RSVP/Registration for group classes required).
Cooperative Care Class II: Virtual Vet Handling/Grooming Class
The goal of this level of training is to have all members of the homework with their dog in a positive and consistent manner. The family will be taught to establish good and healthy boundaries with the dog, limit setting, delayed gratification, positive reinforcement, and understanding of pack behavior.
Cost: $200
Dates: June 4th- July 30th. 6:30pm - 7:30pm
(payment plans are available, but full payment is due by June 4th).
Canine Good Citizenship Test &
Urban Canine Good Citizenship Test.
CGC is open to all dogs–purebred and mixed breed. There are no age minimums or limits for participating in the Canine Good Citizen program, because yes, you can always teach an old dog new tricks!
With that being said, we also know that training a puppy can be very different than training an adult dog. Check out our specialized training program for puppies, AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy, which teaches the basics to get your puppy off to a good start and is an excellent first in-person training class.
This is offered individually and group testing.
Cost: $50/hr