GROUP CLASSES AT WEST UNIVERSITY

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Elementary Puppy Class is a 4-week series dedicated to increase confidence through socialization and relationship-based training. Your puppy will learn essential communication skills, be introduced to new people and other puppies, and begin their basic obedience foundation. Owners will learn critical handling skills and how to navigate play sessions between dogs. 

This 4-week class expands on Elementary Class. We will focus on impulse control, polite social skills, and broaden foundational skills. We will be working on building and maintaining calm and polite behavior in an exciting and highly distracting environment. This is a fun, interactive class for adolescent dogs who have completed Elementary class.   

Skills 1.0 is a 4-week class that prepares your dog for authentic, daily situations and challenges. We will work on impulse control and overall basic commands such as sit, stay, down, recall, loose leash walking, leave it/take it, and jumping up. This class is for adolescent dogs and adult dogs over 5 months of age who are fully vaccinated.

This 4-week class is designed to help build on the basic level commands you learned in Skills 1.0 and make these behaviors useful in your everyday life. We will focus on refining your previously learned commands and introduce more complex exercises. Completion of Skills 1.0 is a requirement for taking Skills 2.0.  

Tricks training provides lots of enrichment and mental stimulation for dogs of all ages. Tricks can also be useful in building the confidence of shy and anxious dogs. Take this 4-week class purely for fun, to enhance what you've learned in manners class, build confidence, or to obtain AKC Tricks Titles! 

During this 4-week series, we will work on more advanced obedience in preparation for the Canine Good Citizen test. The exercises will consist of loose leash walking, crossing paths with other people/dogs, navigating a crowd, longer stays, recall, polite greetings, brushing/handling, and waiting while you are out of sight.

Our 6-week Peace On The Leash class is designed to provide owners with critical handling skills so they are confident and equipped to deal with the triggers and challenges that may arise in their everyday environment. We also aim to provide the dogs with coping skills necessary to exist more comfortably in the presence of triggers that provoke heightened levels of fear, anxiety, and reactivity.