Upcoming Classes

Murphy, NC

July 28 – 7:30 p.m.
September 15 – 6:00 p.m.
November 10 – 6:00 p.m.

Because a well trained dog is a pleasure to have in your home, a pleasure to travel with and is welcome most anywhere.

We’ll be working on a variety of basic, good manners: Polite Greeting, Sit, Down, Polite Walking on Leash, Come, Go to Bed, Targeting, Off/Leave It, etc., and some fun dog tricks! We also discuss other dog behavior challenges according to class need/interest. For dogs and puppies over the age of 20 weeks on the class start date.

6 consecutive weeks

$125

Level I Good Manners

Murphy, NC

September 15 – 7:30 p.m.

To reinforce the behaviors you and your dog have already learned and build on the foundation you’ve already created.

You’ll learn to work with your dog with different and increasing levels of distraction. You’ll help your dog learn to generalize the Level I behaviors to new places and situations and we’ll introduce new exercises such as Distance Down, Stay (with distance and distractions), Hand Signals (Down, Sit, Come), etc., that build on the behaviors you’ve already learned. This is an intermediate good manners class that continues the work of Level I Good Manners. We’ll be working both inside the classroom and outside.

6 consecutive weeks

$125

Level I Good Manners or Comparable Skills

Hiawassee Dam area, Murphy, NC

September 10 – 6:00 p.m.

Besides just being plain fun, introducing and training your dog on different agility obstacles help to give your dog confidence. Your dog will be more confident in new situations, less timid overall, better behaved all around and more confident around other dogs and people.

You’ll be working with your dog to help him or her learn to negotiate tunnels, dog walks, jumps and teeter totters. Join in the fun sport of Agility, but in a non-competitive environment Come join us for backyard fun!

6 consecutive weeks

$125

Agility for Fun, Level I

Hiawassee Dam area, Murphy, NC

Please call for scheduling

To continue building upon the skills you learned in the first Agility for Fun class and for a 2nd round of fun!

We’ll be working on increasing your dog’s skill on each of the agility obstacles, as well as exercises designed to help your dog focus on you and vice versa, exercises to bring about consistency and exercises for your dog on self control. As in Agility for Fun Level I, class will be held on 5 acres of fenced pasture so that your dog is safe while working off leash.

6 consecutive weeks

$125

Murphy, NC

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Reliable Recall is ensuring that your dog will come running to you enthusiastically the first time and each time you call him/her to Come! Coming to you when called is one of the most important skills your dog can learn.

This 4 week course provides you with multiple strategies for introducing; practicing, reinforcing and gaining effective recalls. Getting your dog to come to you on cue is one of the nicest things you can do for your dog (and for you!). By knowing that your dog will return whenever you want him to allows you to give your dog freedom to play and go where he/she wants to go (within reason).

4 consecutive weeks

$80

Murphy, NC

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To give your puppy the best possible start in life and to make sure that your puppy has “positive experiences” with all of the new people, places and things they encounter. Did you know that the most formative time in your puppy’s life is the first few months? It’s very important that you socialize your puppy to a variety of people, places and things during this window of time.

How to set your puppy up to be a well-mannered, confident, adult dog.

• This class is for puppies who are 10 to 20 weeks of age at the start of the first class. We’ll be working on Bite Inhibition (so your puppy develops a soft mouth), we’ll be Socializing your puppy to people (especially children, men, and strangers) and other dogs, as well as teaching basic good manners such as Polite Greeting, Sit, Down and Come, and real life skills such as Drop It and Leave It. Our goal is to set your puppy up to be a well-mannered, confident, adult dog.

• Requirement: Puppies should receive a minimum of one set of vaccines at least 7 days prior to the first class and a first de-worming, and should be kept up-to-date on vaccines throughout the class.

6 consecutive weeks

$125