GROUP CLASSES

Prep School is a six-week basic manners class designed to help you create a solid foundation of leadership and communication with your teenage or adult dog.

Puppy Kindergarten is a six-week group class that covers important foundation behaviors and puppy topics including socialization, grooming and house-training. (You must complete the prerequisite Puppy: First Session before the first day of Puppy Kindergarten.)

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

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.

Use the building-blocks learned in Tricks Level 1 to teach your dog more advanced behaviors, including chain behaviors, differentiation, and even using an i-pad!

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 keep your dog’s stress and arousal levels low, and teach them to focus on you even around distractions.

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!

Practice fun loose leash walking exercises with instructor guidance and feedback, and be sent “home” with a set of resources that will give you even more ways to turn your dog’s walk into the best part of their day and yours!

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.
Prerequisite: FREE Understanding Leash Reactivity Webinar

Humans struggle with impulse control all the time. Imagine how hard it is when you're a dog and no one around you speaks your language! In this workshop we’ll demonstrate how to invite your dog to use polite behaviors to get what they want instead of being rude.

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.

We often think of veterinary care as a "necessary evil" for our dogs - but some simple training exercises and preparation can make visits to the vet a fun, enriching experience for both you and your dog. Trainers Anna and Em will lead you through training and handling techniques that minimize stress, maximize reinforcement, and just might make the phrase "Want to go to the vet?" set your dog's tail wagging!

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.

Are you finding it a challenge to work from home with your dog? This workshop will help you teach your dog the skills needed to be a great co-worker!

Our specialized Puppy Kindergarten course will help get your puppy off to a great start! You and your puppy will learn important foundation behaviors, as well as puppy topics such as socialization, grooming, potty training, and more! (You must complete the prerequisite Puppy: First Session or First Video Session before the first day of Puppy Kindergarten.)

CLASS BEING HELD VIRTUALLY

This class, which was first developed by our co-founder Annie Grossman in 2013, challenges you to engage your dog with something you have on you all the time: Your touch screen device. Learn how you can use an iPad or iPhone to teach your dog new concepts and improve your ability to shape and cue subtle behaviors.

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.

Build on your skills from Tricks Level 1! In Level 2, you will challenge your dog with advanced behaviors such as body part differentiation, color differentiation, and behavior chains!

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!

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 keep your dog’s stress and arousal levels low, and teach them to focus on you even around distractions.

Our Prep School course is specifically designed for adult dogs and adolescent dogs over 5 months. Teach and strengthen your dog’s essential basic manners skills while learning to add in challenges such as distance, distraction and duration to foundations.

This doggy yoga course is the perfect mix of relaxation, stretch and tricks training! Downward Dog will help you learn tips for keeping your dog’s stress levels low, and also build upon your repertoire of fun new tricks!

Have you and your dog been practicing your tricks? Would you like to pick up new ones in the new year? Come to this virtual Tricks Party and show us what you got! We'll be playing fun games that will put you and your dog's listening skills to the test. Don't sweat it: We promise you already know how to play!