Puppy Kindergarten - for dogs 8-16 weeks old at the start of class $140.00
This 4 week class is ideal for a new puppy owner with limited experience in raising a puppy. We will help build a solid foundation for your puppy that will last their entire lifetime. We will focus on engagement, relationship, socialization, and life skills. You will learn practical solutions to the challenges of puppyhood – including crate training and confinement, potty training, manners, problem prevention and other puppy related matters. This is not a skills/obedience class. We recommend that you take Companion Dog Manners or Performance Manners shortly after. This class also does not include “puppy playtime” - each puppy will be working with his owner on all the fun activities.
This 4 week class has rolling admission. You pick and join any week that has an opening. Once you start, you have a reserved spot in that class for consecutive 4 weeks. If your puppy is over 16 weeks and you feel this is a more appropriate class for your dog based on its size, confidence level, mental maturity, etc., please contact us at training@runwilddogsports.com.
AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy® Program :: 8–24 Weeks Old $210.00
This 6-week is designed to prepare you for the AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy® test. Upon passing the test, you’ll get an application to send to AKC for enrollment in the AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy® Program. All dogs are welcome to participate in the program including purebreds and mixed breeds.
In this class you and your pup will learn the foundational behaviors leading toward the Canine Good Citizen® test including sit, down, recalls, tolerance of handling, tolerance of strangers and more.
Contact us at training@runwilddogsports.com for more info.
This is our foundational manners course for puppies and dogs of all ages. It’s a 6-week class focused on teaching you how to teach your dog good manners and behaviors using reward and engagement. A great class for dogs of all ages—from puppies to adolescent dogs and even older dogs that just need a refresher—it is also perfect for dogs that are settling into a new home that could use a reminder on their manners, or that may not have had any previous training.
Topics will include: good manners, appropriate greetings, leash walking, and coming when called. We’ll work on increasing duration, distance, and distraction.
🚫 Reactive dogs (dogs that aggressively bark, lunge, or growl at people or dogs) are not eligible for this class, but may be suitable for Reactive Rover. Please contact us for recommendations.
✅ Prerequisite: None
This is a 6-week beginning manners class for dogs that plan to pursue dog sports and activities such as agility, rally, nose work, field work, or barn hunt. With an emphasis on engagement, focus, and learning to work enthusiastically with their handler, this class is great for dogs of all ages—from puppies to adolescent dogs, or even older dogs.
Topics will include foundation sport skills such as learning how to work at the handler’s side, an introduction to using targets and stations, using toy play and food as a reward, as well as all the basics like sit, down, stay, and coming when called.
🚫 Reactive dogs (dogs that aggressively bark, lunge, or growl at people or dogs) are not eligible for this class, but may be suitable for Reactive Rover. Please contact us for recommendations.
✅ Prerequisite: None
This is a basic manners class for dogs that are overly friendly, bouncy, and bursting with energy—and maybe impulsive or having a hard time remembering what you thought they knew. In this 6-week class, we focus on teaching you how to teach your dog good manners and behaviors using reward and engagement. We will focus on skills to help these dogs be successful by channeling this energy with impulse games, building focus, as well as appropriate greetings and basic manners.
🚫 Reactive dogs (dogs that aggressively bark, lunge, or growl at people or dogs) are not eligible for this class, but may be suitable for Reactive Rover. Please contact us for recommendations.
✅ Prerequisite: None
The 6 week Sports Prep class helps build the foundation skills necessary to advance into agility, flyball, obedience, rally or other dog sports. The class covers effective toy play techniques and food reinforcement to build and keep engagement. The reinforcement strategies will encourage both working close to the handler and moving away from the handler. We will work on training techniques such as shaping, targeting and chaining, shadow handling/circle work, and working on both sides of the handler. We will work on advanced sit/down stays, on and off-leash heeling, and recall skills with distractions. The class also covers strategies for managing arousal, focus, and understanding how to redirect dogs away from distractions. Prerequisite is successful completion of one of our Manners classes or instructor approval.
