Rowdy & Reactive
Get help now for your leash lunging dog!
Help your dog learn to voluntarily break away from other dogs when out on a walk. This is a single-focus program for critical skill proficiency. The Rowdy & Reactive program is for dogs who, when out on a leash walk, lunge and bark at other dogs and/or people. Most reactive dogs start here.
What's Included:
- 2 Hour Group Orientation (without your dog)
- Written Training Materials
- One Private Coaching Lesson
- Six Group Class Sessions (on Sundays at 4:30 pm)
Let’s Go!
Rally Obedience: Intermediate/Advanced
Build focus, teamwork and communication through AKC Rally sign and course work. Dogs and handlers learn how to move through stations, connect between signs, and develop the skills needed for smooth, confident Rally sequences.
Rally Obedience: Novice
Build focus, teamwork and communication through AKC Rally sign and course work. Dogs and handlers learn how to move through stations, connect between signs, and develop the skills needed for smooth, confident Rally sequences.
Group Puppy Class
Life & classroom skills, grooming & handling, following/walking, settle/stay, recall, problem prevention. Developing strong reward rituals. Beginning manners, fun agility. Building confidence with people, objects, and other puppies through positive interactions and supervised play.
Family Dog Manners
Class covers basic obedience behaviors like sit, down, stay, walk nicely, greet politely and come when called.
Fit Dog
Flexibility, balance, strength, movement, confidence building. Use props, targets, lures and shaping to teach and practice fitness related behaviors.
Entering Adolescence
Life & classroom skills, paying attention to owner around other people and dogs. Learning to settle in exciting environments. Practicing good habits while out-and-about. Problem prevention topics. Walking, recall, greetings.
Dealing with Distractions
Your dog will practice relaxing, walking and focusing on you around a variety of distractions. Building strong reward rituals.
Intermediate Skills
Add some essential skills to your repertoire. Calm settling around other dogs, fun attention games, and more complicated walking routines and strategies. Prepare for advanced classes and real- world integration. No dogs first night.
New Challenges
Walking, relaxing/watching, practicing known behaviors, and playing with toys around other dogs. New distractions, new skills, new challenges.
Movement & Body Awareness
Use props, patterns, environmental challenges and body awareness to provide structure, focus and clarity. Dogs are exposed to a variety of exercise types including mobility, balance, confidence building, and strength training,
Puppy Beginning Manners
Basic obedience like sit, down, stay, wait, walk nicely, greet politely and come when called.
Sport Dog
Private, reward-based coaching for active and aspiring sport and competition dogs. Whether you're building foundations, preparing for competition, or troubleshooting a performance problem, we'll help you develop the training skills needed for enthusiastic, precise, and reliable work. Sessions can focus on engagement, reward delivery, technical training skills, self-control, performance under distraction, and maintaining intensity and endurance without sacrificing accuracy.
Sport Puppy Foundation
Private, reward-based coaching for puppies and young dogs destined for dog sports and competition. We'll help you develop enthusiastic engagement, effective reward strategies, self-control, and strong foundation skills while preserving the drive and intensity that make sport dogs so much fun to train.
Building Puppy Confidence
Understanding, motivating, and supporting your sensitive puppy.
Cool Your Jets, Puppy
Developing focus and relaxation. Learning to guide and socialize your highly aroused puppy.
Puppy Problem Prevention
Setting puppy up for success and learning to recognize and respond to early warning signs of trouble.
Family Dog Manners
Basic obedience behaviors like sit, down, stay, wait, walk nicely, greet politely and come when called.
Building Confidence
With understanding, support, and a carefully constructed approach, the world of a shy dog can open up considerably.
Really Reactive
Learn what you need to set your dog up for successful Ready to Work sessions.
Ready to Work
Practical working sessions working on appropriate behavior around difficult stimuli, including a neutral dog.
Practice Dog: Outside
Work your dog around a trained practice dog and handler on our fenced field. The practice dog’s behavior can be adjusted from calm and neutral to active movement or toy play, depending on your training goals. Useful for recalls, parallel walking, settling near distraction, neutrality, off-leash focus, and more. You run the session and we handle the practice dog.
Practice Dog: Inside
Work your own dog around a trained practice dog and handler in our private indoor training space. Useful for practicing focus, neutrality, settling, leash skills, recovery, engagement, and predictable routines around another dog in a controlled environment.
Practice Dog: Entire Facility
Work your dog around a trained practice dog and handler with access to the indoor training space, fenced field, or both. This option provides maximum environmental control, with no other dogs booked on the property during your session.
Training Field
Training Building
Building & Field Together
BUILDING: 5,400 square feet of climate controlled (air-conditioned/heated) indoor freedom for you and your dog. Agility flooring, 60×90 foot building. Plenty of room for recalls, loose leash practice, relationship-building games, or just supervised off-leash play while you relax in the cool. FIELD: One private fenced acre. Shady trees, hangout spots, blinds for hide & seek, things to walk over and explore, and room to really run. Perfect for supervised adventuring, training, playing, or just chilling out with your best friend.