📅 Next Class Begins:
Saturday, September 27th at 2:30 PM

📍 6-Week Group Class — $200

🐾 Tentative Weekly Itinerary

Week 1:

• Introduction to clicker/marking behavior

• Duration, distance, and distractions

• Sit

• Watch Me

• Leave It

• Touch

• Self-regulating Down (behavioral down/calming exercise)

• Walk pups together/playtime

Week 2:

• Introduction to leash/collar pressure

• Down

• Introduction to Stay

• Stand

• Drop It

• Introduction to Place

• Walk pups together/playtime

Week 3:

• Loose leash walking (15 steps) past people and dogs (turn for correction if pulling)

• Stay (instructor holds leash while owner walks 15 steps and returns)

• Introduction to doggie handling (owner checks ears, eyes, feet)

• Walk pups together/playtime

Week 4:

• Walks by other people and dogs with them 5 feet away

• Introduction to Come (short leash/5–6 feet)

• Reaction to distractions (door slam, item drop from 15 feet away)

• Walk pups together/playtime

Week 5:

• Come on 15-foot longline past distractions (puppy popcorn)

• Wait (thresholds, doorways, crate)

• Take It (intro to treat puzzles & mental stimulation)

• Approach of another person and allowing petting time

• Walk pups together/playtime

Week 6:

• Introduction to the Quiet Time Exercise (calming)

• Review of class commands

• AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy Test (optional)

• Walk pups together/playtime​​​