Choose the Smartest Next Step for Your Dog, Your Career, or Your Team

Group classes run in 6-week sessions at both locations and cover everything from Puppy and Me to Level 3 Obedience, CGC Prep, and Agility Foundations. Private coaching gives you one-on-one time with a trainer to work on specific challenges — leash reactivity, recall, separation anxiety, or any behavior goal that needs focused attention. Both formats put you in the driver's seat so you build the skills and confidence to handle your dog in every situation, not just inside the training facility.

Expected Outcome: Stronger owner-dog communication, measurable skill improvement on specific commands or behaviors, and the confidence to handle your dog in real-world situations. Many families combine group classes with occasional private sessions for the best balance of community, accountability, and targeted problem-solving.

The Pet Professional program is an intensive 8-week immersion designed to take you from interested to employable. You will work with real dogs every day — not simulations or theory-only lectures. Your training covers obedience foundations, handling skills, reading canine body language, client communication, and the operational basics of running training sessions. Housing and transport are included so you can focus entirely on learning. You graduate with multiple certifications, a portfolio of hands-on experience, and alumni support to help you land your first position.

Expected Outcome: Graduates leave with the skills, confidence, and credentials to secure an entry-level training position at a professional facility, start assisting in private lessons, or continue to the Pet Specialist tier for deeper preparation.

The Pet Masters program is the full immersion experience — 16 weeks and 800+ hours of hands-on work with 200+ dogs across every level of difficulty. Beyond the core training and client skills covered in the Specialist tier, Masters students go deeper into advanced behavior modification, multi-dog management, facility operations, business planning, and marketing. You receive professional marketing materials including headshots, a trainer bio, and digital assets so you can present yourself as a credible professional from day one. The alumni support window is the longest of any tier, giving you a sustained mentorship runway as you build your career.

Expected Outcome: Graduates leave with the broadest skill set, the deepest dog-handling experience, and the operational knowledge to work at the highest level of a training facility — or to launch their own. This is the tier for people who want to be the best in the room, not just competent.

Our instructors come to your facility and coach your team in the environment where the work actually happens. This means training around your kennels, your play yards, your intake area, and your client-facing spaces — not a generic classroom. Staff learn to handle dogs more safely during intake, feeding, play groups, grooming, and handoffs. The intensive is scheduled around your operations so you do not have to shut down or lose revenue to make it work. Sessions are practical and immediate: your team practices new skills on the dogs they are already responsible for.

Expected Outcome: Skills that transfer immediately because they were learned in context. Your team builds muscle memory in the exact environment where they need it, leading to faster adoption, fewer safety incidents, and stronger day-to-day performance without the lag that comes from off-site training.

This pathway is designed specifically for the realities of shelter and rescue work — high intake volume, limited staff, stressed dogs, and the constant pressure to improve outcomes. We work with your team on safe handling techniques for fearful and reactive dogs, behavior assessment protocols that improve placement accuracy, enrichment strategies that reduce kennel stress, and documentation standards that help dogs move through your system faster and into better-matched homes. Programs can be shaped around adoption workflows, foster coordination, or rehabilitation pipelines depending on your organization's priorities.

Expected Outcome: A team that handles difficult dogs with more confidence and fewer incidents, better behavior data that leads to smarter placements, reduced length of stay, and a training standard that can be passed on to volunteers and new hires. For organizations with limited budgets, we offer sponsorship-backed builds so financial constraints do not block mission-critical training.