GROUP CLASSES

Prep School

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: Level 1

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.

Tricks Class: Level 1

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.

Tricks Class: Level 2

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

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.

Barkour

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!

Workshop: Loose Leash Walking Games $60 per class•Purchase required to enroll

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!

Workshop: Basic Skills for Reactive Dogs

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

Workshop: Impulse Control Games $60 per class•Purchase required to enroll

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.

Workshop: Nose Work Games $60 per class•Purchase required to enroll

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.

Workshop: Happy Vet Visits $60 per class•Purchase required to enroll

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!

Workshop: Window and Door Barkers $60 per class•Purchase required to enroll

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.

Workshop: Working From Home With Your Dog $60 per class•Purchase required to enroll

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!

Virtual Puppy Kindergarten $300•Purchase required to enroll

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.)

Virtual iPaw Course

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.

Virtual Tricks Level 1 $300•Purchase required to enroll

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.

Virtual Tricks Level 2 $300•Purchase required to enroll

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!

Virtual Barkour $300•Purchase required to enroll