Manners - Training for Everyday Life

A Great Start for Young Puppies

For puppies 8 to 15 weeks old

This class helps puppies build confidence, focus, and important early life skills through positive socialization and reward-based training. You’ll work on attention, walking on leash, sit, down, and coming when called, while also getting help with common puppy challenges.

AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy

7 weeks • 50-minute classes • $160

For Puppies Ready for the Next Step

This class builds on the foundation laid in Puppy 101 and helps your puppy develop greater confidence, focus, and real-life reliability. We work on stay, come when called, leave-it, polite leash walking, and go-to-place, while continuing to build attention and learning skills.

6 weeks • 50-minute classes • $140

The  perfect starting point

For dogs over 15 weeks and new to training. Using force-free methods, we teach sit, down, stay, wait, come when called, polite leash walking, leave-it, targeting, and go-to-place. You’ll also begin using both hand signals and verbal cues to build clear communication with your dog.

7 weeks • 50-minute classes • $160

Build Stronger Skills and Better Focus

This class builds on the foundation of Level 1 and helps dogs become more responsive and thoughtful in the presence of distractions. We continue improving loose-leash walking, recall, attention to the handler, and self-control behaviors while helping dogs make better choices in more challenging situations.

6 weeks • 50-minute classes • $140

Turn skills into reliability

For dogs who have completed Level 2

This is where training becomes more dependable in real life. This class focuses on calm focus, impulse control, distance, distractions, and stronger responsiveness in everyday situations. It is ideal for teams that want more reliability and a more polished level of training.

6 weeks • 50-minute classes • $140