GROUP CLASSES

Puppy Kindergarten is a six-week group class that covers important foundation behaviors and puppy topics including socialization, grooming and house-training. (Group Class, NYC)

Prep School is a 6-week basic manners class designed to teach and strengthen your teenage or adult dog’s essential basic manners skills while learning to add in challenges such as distance, distraction and duration.(Group Class, NYC)

Strengthen your dog’s behavior and sharpen your own training skills in this 5-week advanced class with fun exercises and games that incorporate duration, distance and distractions. Prerequisite required. (Group Class, NYC)

This class will focus on the 10 required items included in the American Kennel Club’s Canine Good Citizen Test. (Group Class, NYC)

Urban Leash Walking is a 5-week class that will give you and your dog the skills needed to successfully navigate the streets of NYC without leash pulling, scavenging and planting ruining your walks. You’ll learn how to communicate clearly and effectively so leash walks can be fun for both you and your dog despite the challenges of an urban environment. (Group Class, NYC)

Calm Canine is an innovative course for dogs that have difficulty settling at home, or in new environments. This course will help you to learn how to manage and moderate your dog's stress and arousal levels, teach impulse control, and help teach them to focus on you even around distractions. (Group Class, NYC)

Sidewalk Psychos is an 8-week group class with an urban focus specifically designed for NYC dogs who bark, lunge or growl at other dogs on leash walks. (Group Class, NYC)

Build on your skills from Sidewalk Psychos Level 1. In this 5-week class, you will review concepts from Level 1, and challenge your dog by taking your skills out to the streets! Prerequisite required (Group Class, NYC)

Stranger Danger is an 8-week group class designed specifically for dogs who bark, lunge, growl, or show other signs of threatening behavior towards strangers. (Group Class, NYC)

Teaching tricks is the perfect way to exercise your dog’s mind and body without a lot of space or a big time commitment. You will learn a repertoire of fun tricks while also helping to build your dog’s confidence. Prerequisite required (Group Class, NYC)

Use the building-blocks learned in Tricks Level 1 to teach your dog more advanced behaviors, including chain behaviors, differentiation, and even using an iPad! Prerequisite required. (Group Class, NYC)

This course will teach you how to use at home objects to increase your dog’s physical fitness and to build indoor obstacle courses to exercise your dog. Great for rainy days, or small spaces. Prerequisite required (Group Class, NYC)

Think putting your dog’s harness on, taking them to the vet, cutting their nails and administering eye/ear drops without any struggle or stress sounds impossible? We’ll show you how! (Group Class, NYC)

Teaching tricks is the perfect way to exercise your dog’s mind and body without a lot of space or a big time commitment. You will learn a repertoire of fun tricks while also helping to build your dog’s confidence. Prerequisite required (Online Group Class)

Calm Canine is an innovative course for dogs that have difficulty settling at home, or in new environments. This course will help you to learn how to manage and moderate your dog's stress and arousal levels, teach impulse control, and help teach them to focus on you even around distractions. (Online Group Class, NYC)

Teach your dog to play games using their amazing sense of smell! These are great activities for dogs young and old alike and a perfect way to help your dog expend mental energy while having fun. (Online)

Having your dog bark, lunge or growl on walks can be embarrassing and frustrating! Learn 5 critical skills you'll need to master to help walks with your dog become less stressful. (Online)

Does your dog bark incessantly when you have a delivery? Or at dogs on the street passing by your parlor window? Learn practical ways to manage the behavior and invaluable techniques to decrease the intensity of your dog’s alert barking. (Online)

Having your dog bark, lunge, or growl when meeting new people or having guests over can be stressful for everyone! Learn techniques to safely manage these situations and ultimately help teach your dog to display more socially appropriate behaviors. (Online)

Teaching tricks is the perfect way to exercise your dog’s mind and body without a lot of space or a big time commitment. These single session workshops are for dogs 5 months and older without serious behavioral concerns, and are held in-person at School For the Dogs. No prior tricks training required! (Workshop, NYC)

Is your adolescent dog jumping, barking, mouthing or just generally driving you crazy? Blame their brain! It's true: adolescent dogs need extra guidance during this critical time due to their brain development. Learn key concepts and skills that will teach your dog how to regulate their behavior during this 60 minute workshop. (Workshop, NYC)