Online 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: TBD
(payment plans are available but full payment is due 1 week before classes start)
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: TBD .
Gluten Detection Class
This 16 Week class is geared towards any service dog that needs to be trained specifically for Gluten detection. Handlers will learn how to train their dogs to alert to gluten, 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: $500 (Deal at only $30/class!) payment plans are vai
Dates: Jan 4, 2025- April 26th, 2025
Cooperative Care Class I: Virtual Vet Handling and Prep Class
This 12 week class and in partnership with area local vets is designed to work with clients on handling from nose to tail. To desensitize dogs to work with teeth cleaning, ear cleaning, vaccines, blood draws, wellness exams, nail trims, and so much more. Talk to your vet and see if they are a partner for additional % off registration and future vet visits!
Cost: $400 (this is ~ $37.00 a class!)
Dates: Jan 4, 2025- March 22nd, 2025
(payment plans are available)
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: $60/hr
Dates: TBD (use contact form for updates on events)
(RSVP/Registration for group classes required).
Diabetic Alert Service Dogs: Gluclose Detection.
In this class handlers will be training their dogs to alert to high/low blood sugars through scent detection. Handlers will learn how to safely collect samples, pair the scent, create the alert, and generalize the alert on the person, and then in all settings.
Cost: $450
Dates: TBD
(payment plans are available)
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