What a Good Dog! Training

What a Good Dog! Training offers small classes which allow for lots of individual attention and an opportunity to address specific needs and problems.

Homework is given each week to keep your training on track and you and your pup focused!

Jody offers a Basic Obedience class. Individual training sessions in your home are also available by appointment.


Basic Obedience
Basic obedience class is time to (re)introduce your dog to good manners. We encourage a mix of puppies and older "novice" dogs.  Perhaps puppy class is a long forgotten memory and old behaviors are creeping back into your dog's repertoire. Or Perhaps this is the first opportunity for an obedience class. Whether this is the first class or a review class for your dog, we'll start with the basics and review focus, sit, stay, come, and loose-leash walking. We'll also introduce heel and a number of other things/situations you may run into with your dog. The focus is learning how to control the four-legged family member rather than feeling controlled by him/her. A major part of what we do is try to increase/improve the communication with your dog.  We also discuss problem behaviors that tend to come along with growing dogs - countersurfing, jumping (cute as a puppy but when they get bigger....), barking, etc. An important element is socialization - exposure to other dogs, people, and situations that help the dog learn how to cope with the changing environment...... $100.00



Individual Private Sessions
By appointment...... $50/hour

Jody Meerdink
Ph.D. in Psychology
Certified Trainer (Animal Behavior College)

815-758-8300

	Basic Obedience Tues Evenings 6:30-7:30
	July 13th - July 24th