Focused Puppy, 20+ Weeks

Class Description: Open Enrollment for Older Puppies

Your puppy loved her Puppy Kindergarten class and mastered all the commands - but the teenager months have hit, and now she wants to explore and investigate everything. She’s too busy to come when she’s called, and it seems like she’s completely forgotten her manners. Your puppy needs focus. Directed socialization exercises use a preventive medicine approach to behavior, focusing on building active attention from puppies when they are distracted. This class prepares your puppy for the AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy test and certificate, where you’ll be able to demonstrate skills like loose-lead walking, accepting a friendly stranger, sitting and lying down on command, and social behavior around other puppies. Puppy K graduates will expand their skills; beginner puppies learn the basics. Puppies don't need prior training to take this class.

How this class will benefit you at home:

• Your puppy will master the commands and behaviors that make a great family dog, including settle on a bed, come when called, and leave it.

• Your dog can achieve an AKC S.T.A.R. puppy certificate

• Naughty teenager behavior is gently redirected, and your puppy will learn how to be a social, obedient adult

• Beginning Puppies Orientation

• Puppy Kindergarten Graduates

Who is this class for?

Puppies of all breeds, twenty weeks to one year old at the start of class. Owners who want to work toward a S.T.A.R. Puppy certificate.

What prerequisites does this class have?

All puppies must be current on vaccinations and have a negative fecal before the first class. Please bring your current documentation of your puppy’s records to the first class.

This class is $266.40 if you pay via credit card and discounted to $256.80 if you pay by cash or check. Payments by cash or check are accepted during your first class session. This includes the class fee and sales tax. Focused Puppy tuition is for 6, 1-hour consecutive class sessions.

This class has ongoing enrollment. You register for a start date, and when you attend your first class we will register you for 6 consecutive classes on the same day/time. The class has a rotating curriculum and every class is at a different place in the rotation, so you can not attend on different days/times. If you are absent, you can take the class you miss the next time that we offer that lesson to schedule a 30 minute private make up class for $20 at the training school.