Puppy Skills Series Online Seminars

We are offering single-session seminars about a variety of puppy topics.

Tuition: $30

Puppy Comes Home! The First Weeks

The first few weeks at home are the perfect time to create a routine for your puppy that will set everyone up for success. This hour-long class gives you the tools you need to build a routine that works for your daily life, and works for your puppy. We will discuss crate training, keeping your puppy safe and happy when you’re busy (or just need a break!), how to build great housetraining habits, and how to minimize common puppy behaviors like chewing on inappropriate objects.

Kids & Pups: Establishing Harmony

Raising a puppy alongside children is a big job! This hour-long seminar will discuss how to manage your puppy’s daily routine so it works well for your household’s activities. We’ll cover common issues like puppy biting, nipping, and jumping, and why puppies find kids so exciting! We’ll talk about how to create boundaries for children and puppies that will build a bond, and give each other down time. Training games that safely include kids and pups playing and learning together to establish a common vocabulary are a fun part of this class.

Puppy Care: Grooming and Veterinary Prep

Teaching your puppy to be comfortable with routine husbandry and veterinary care provides life-long benefits. In this one-hour seminar, we will discuss how to build foundation skills that make nose-to-tail care a chance for bonding and enjoyment rather than a struggle. Join us in learning about aspects of canine physical care such as bathing, grooming, ear care, dental health, and nail trims, as well as building calm behaviors during vet exams. A puppy that can willingly participate in husbandry is on the right track to a life of health and wellness.

Puppy Kindergarten Group Training Class

THE MOST IMPORTANT CLASS YOU’LL EVER TAKE WITH YOUR DOG

A fun, interactive way to get off on a good paw with your new best friend! We begin with a human-only first session to start tackling common puppy behaviors like house training, biting, and chewing. Then join fellow puppy owners and one of our certified professional instructors for six laughter-filled sessions on basic behaviors like sit, down, stay, and come. All this while we provide essential socialization lessons that help your puppy grow up to be an easy-going, friendly, polite adult dog. Along the way you’ll be introduced to easy-to-use, effective, dog-friendly training techniques like clicker training, capturing, and targeting. It’s a blast!

For: Puppies aged 9 to 16 weeks at the start of class.

You Should Know: Puppies must have at least one round of puppy vaccines and must have been in your home for at least 7 days prior to their first class. Puppies need to be free of any illness – no coughing, sneezing, diarrhea, vomiting, etc. The first class will be an orientation on Zoom, and then we will alternate between a drop-off Socialization Hour at Doggy Business and online class instruction/training through Zoom for the remaining 6 weeks of the class.

Class Length: 7 weeks with a combination of drop-off Puppy Socialization Hours and online class instruction/training through Zoom.

Tuition: $210.

To start the enrollment process, please click on the link below to set up an account in our online scheduling software (Gingr). From there you can request the Puppy Kindergarten and all of our other services!

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Puppy Socials

HANDS-DOWN THE BEST HOUR OF YOUR WEEK, WE PROMISE!

We are offering Puppy Socials through a new drop-off format. To make sure everyone is able to maintain the required 6-foot social distance, we will have some specific guidelines for how to drop your puppy off and pick your puppy up. We will get those guidelines to you in a confirmation email 1-2 days before each Social. We will have a maximum of 8 puppies for these socials & require prior registration. PLEASE DO NOT COME IF YOU ARE NOT FEELING WELL.

Just imagine it: A room full of puppies playing. Can you think of a better way to spend an hour? Yeah, neither can we. Supervised by a certified professional dog trainer, your puppy will learn appropriate greeting and play behavior with fellow canines and with humans, too. We’ll also shake things up with a variety of socialization exercises to help your puppy learn to ignore life’s distractions and surprises. A kid whizzing by on a skateboard? Ho hum, says your puppy. The vacuum cleaner? Boring. Loud, sudden noises? I didn’t even notice. Our puppy social’s motto: A well-socialized puppy is an easy-going dog—and that’s exactly what our puppy socials aim to provide.

For: Puppies aged 9 to 20 weeks (5 months) old at the start of class, and the groups are split by age.

• Saturdays 10-11am – For puppies 9-13 weeks old or less than 10 pounds
• Saturdays 11:30am-12:30pm – For puppies 14-20 weeks old

You Should Know: Puppies must have at least one round of vaccines and must have been in your home for at last 7 days prior to their first social. Puppies need to be free of any illness – no coughing, sneezing, diarrhea, vomiting, etc. Please bring a copy of your puppies shot records to the social.

Tuition: $25 per session. Package of 3 for $70, package of 5 for $115. Payment and shot records due at registration.

To start the enrollment process, please click on the link below to set up an account in our online scheduling software (Gingr). From there you can request the Puppy Social. If you aren’t able to request a Social, then it has booked up. If you’d like to be on the waiting list please DROP US AN EMAIL.

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Keep It Going Puppy!

ADDRESSING ADOLESCENCE

So you and your puppy just finished Puppy Kindergarten. Excellent! That’s exactly what your puppy needed – active work on socialization and bite inhibition. Well, what’s next? ADOLESCENCE! It may be a scary word, but don’t worry, we’ve got the class for you. Keep It Going Puppy is a fun way to continue the learning as your puppy enters a new developmental stage. They’re continuing to grow, develop, and learn and often their attention is focused on their environment, and no longer on you!

This class is tailored to help get their attention back on you, while continuing their structured socialization with new things. Adolescence is the time to add more “cushion” to your dog’s comfort level with new, startling, or even scary things, so that they can shrug off that loud sound or snippy dog. We continue to work on handleability for the vet or groomer, attention when you need it, a solid stay, coming when called, and polite walking. We also address how to prevent problem behaviors from arising, and how to manage them when they do.

Prerequisite: Puppy Kindergarten

For: Dogs aged 5 to 12 months old who are comfortable hanging out around other dogs and new people. This class is not for dogs who bark and lunge at other dogs.

You Should Know: ONLINE class is 5 weeks long (through Zoom).First class is an orientation.

Class Length: 5 weeks (ONLINE)

Tuition: $150

To start the enrollment process, please click on the link below to set up an account in our online scheduling software (Gingr). From there you can request Keep It Going Puppy and all of our other services!

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