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House Dog Obedience Classes: Obedience and Manners Training for Every Dog!
Our House Dog Obedience Classes are designed to provide a strong foundation in dog obedience training, helping you build a well-mannered companion that fits seamlessly into your daily life. These dog training classes focus on practical skills that improve communication, enhance safety, and strengthen the bond between you and your dog. Whether you’re welcoming a new canine family member or looking to refine your dog’s skills, our structured dog obedience classes will guide you every step of the way.
Why Dog Obedience Training Matters
Proper dog obedience training is essential for creating a well-behaved, confident, and happy dog. Teaching basic manners and reliable commands helps prevent unwanted behaviors, ensuring your dog is polite both at home and in public settings. Our dog training classes provide a positive and structured environment where dogs learn to listen, focus, and respond to their handlers.
Well-trained dogs are easier to manage, safer in different environments, and more enjoyable companions. Investing in dog obedience classes early on can prevent future behavioral issues, making life with your four-legged friend more harmonious.
What You’ll Learn in House Dog Obedience
🐾 House Dog Obedience Level 1 – Building a Strong Foundation
In this beginner-level dog obedience class, we teach foundational skills that can be applied to everyday life. This course focuses on:
- Loose-Leash Walking: Teaching your dog to walk politely without pulling.
- Sit, Down, and Stay: Essential commands for impulse control and good manners.
- Recall (Coming When Called): Ensuring your dog responds promptly when off-leash.
- Polite Greetings: Preventing jumping and encouraging calm interactions with people.
- Place Training: Helping your dog settle in one spot at home or in public.
By the end of Level 1, teams will complete a skills assessment to determine their readiness for Level 2.
🐕 House Dog Obedience Level 2 – Advancing Skills & Reliability
Once you and your dog have mastered the basics, Level 2 focuses on refining and advancing your training. In this class, you’ll work on:
- Chaining Behaviors Together: Teaching your dog to follow multiple cues seamlessly.
- Increasing Duration & Distance: Strengthening commands like stay and recall in distracting environments.
- Distraction Training: Helping your dog remain focused around people, other dogs, and everyday distractions.
- Fading Food Reinforcers: Ensuring reliable obedience even without treats.
This course prepares dogs for more advanced dog training classes, such as our Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Prep Class, and helps create a well-mannered companion in all situations.
Who Can Join?
Our dog obedience training is designed for dogs of all ages (20 weeks and older). Whether you have an adolescent dog needing structure or an adult dog needing reinforcement, these dog obedience classes provide the perfect training environment. Have a puppy under 20 weeks (5 months) of age? Check out our Puppy Pre-K Classes!
Class Benefits & Structure
📅 Sessions Meet Weekly – Classes run for six weeks unless otherwise specified.
🎓 Graduation Requirement – Pass the skills assessment on week 6 to advance to Level 2.
📚 Exclusive Training Resources – Registration includes access to video tutorials demonstrating the skills taught each week, so you can practice at home with confidence.
Why Choose Our Dog Training Classes?
- Expert Instruction: Learn from experienced and certified trainers who meet every team where they are at
- Real-World Applications: Teach your dog skills that apply to daily life, from greeting guests politely to walking nicely on a leash.
- Supportive Learning Environment: Train in a fun, structured setting with other dedicated dog owners.
Our dog obedience training classes provide everything you need to help your dog become a well-behaved and reliable companion. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to advance your dog’s skills, we have a class that fits your needs.
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House Dog Obedience Class Instructors
Cheryl Kuntz CPDT-KA
Jill Bugbee ABCDT
Marissa Murray LVT, CPDT-KA
Everything You Need To Know
In Level 1 we will teach skills such as:
- Sit
- Down
- Targeting
- Eye contact / Name Recognition
And expand on them to apply to skills such as:
- Leash Walking
- Prevent door dashing / begin door etiquette
- Prevent and manage “stealing” off of counters, tables or floors
- Station training / Stay
- Reorient to handler & Come when called
- Begin a polite greeting routine
In level 2 we continue to expand on the level 1 skills and begin to apply them to:
- Leash Walking
- Entering and exiting new spaces under control
- Working or passing other teams in close proximity
- Cuing sniff breaks on a walk
- Cuing Leave it to items on a walk
- Duration Stays off the Station: Down and Sit
- New Positions: Stand, Middle, Front
- Introducing Handling Exercises for groomer and veterinary visits as well as to prep for Canine Good Citizen class & testing. More information on CGC here (link to CGC page)
- For a more advanced handling class, check out our Cooperative Care class that runs quarterly.
- Continuing Recall games and Polite Greeting Exercises
- Must be current on all vaccinations including Distemper/Parvovirus and Rabies
- A recent exam by a veterinarian where dog was deemed healthy
- Dogs attending this class should not display extreme anxiety, fear or aggression around other dogs or people. If your dog struggles with any of these problem behaviors, we can address them with private lessons!
- Level 1 House Dog Obedience or equivalent is a prerequisite to Level 2. Your dog must be able to perform all behaviors on the skills assessment for Level 1 before starting Level 2.
House Dog Obedience Class meets at our facility at 428 Zimmerman St. North Tonawanda, NY 14120.
$190 / 6 week class session.
When registering, you will have different blocks of class times to choose from. For example; Tuesdays at 5 PM or Wednesdays at 6:15 PM, etc.
Cancellation Policy: Your registration reserves your spot in this group class. Please be as courteous as possible and let us know ASAP if you need to cancel your reservation. A full refund, minus payment processing fees, can be issued 7 days prior to the start date of class. Cancellations within one week of the scheduled start date are eligible for a 50% refund, minus payment processing fees. There are no refunds available after the scheduled start date. If payment was not collected at the time of registration, you will be billed accordingly.