3266 N. Elston Ave in Chicago

Group Training Classes

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Classes are 5 weeks straight unless noted otherwise and located at our Avondale HQ at 3266 N. Elston Ave. in Chicago!

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Puppy

Congratulations on your new puppy!! We are here to help with everything you need to survive (and thrive) throughout puppy-hood and into adult.

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$225 for 5 weeks
🗓️ July 19 at 10am

5-week puppy training and socialization class focused on obedience, confidence building, and life skills for city dogs.

Puppy 1

  • This rolling-admission, 4-week puppy training class in Chicago helps your young dog build essential skills and confidence through positive reinforcement and guided socialization.

    Your puppy will learn:

    • Engagement and attention-building

    • Leash walking and recall

    • Sit, down, leave it, and polite greetings

    • Trading items to prevent resource guarding

    • Comfort with handling, vet visits, and new environments

  • Best for puppies under 5 months old who are ready to start training and socializing in a group setting.

  • At least 1 round of puppy vaccinations completed (DHPP, bordatella)

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$35 per session

Trainer supervised playgroup where we will also work on some basic training skills, handling, and other confidence building exercises.

Puppy Playgroup

  • Designed to help puppies during their critical socialization period learn to interact with other puppies, people, objects, and new experiences.

  • Puppies under 5 months.

  • At least one round of puppy vaccinations one week prior to play (DHPP, bordatella).

Take your dog from beginner basics to advanced obedience with our obedience classes, designed to improve leash skills, focus, impulse control, and real-world behavior.

Obedience

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$225 / 5 classes
🗓️ Begins Tue, June 17 @ 6pm

This class is all about building a solid foundation for you and your pup! Our goal is to help you start off on the right foot with foundational skills.

Adult Dog 1

  • Foundational skills such as

    • Sit, down, stay

    • Leave it

    • Recall

    • Touch

    • Leash walking

    • Find it

    • Eye contact/engagement

    • Release cue

  • Best for dogs who are new to training, easily distracted, or need help focusing in busy environments. Great for high-energy dogs or recent rescues starting fresh.

  • Vaccinated adult dogs 12 months.

$225 / 5 weeks
🗓️ Begins Jul 29 @ 6pm

This class will work on proofing existing skills like stays, recall, and leash walking as well as more advanced skills like place and heel .

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Adult Dog 2

  • Build on skills learned in Adult Dog 1, plus

    • Relaxation

    • Heel

    • Place

    • Tricks

  • Best for dogs who know the basics but struggle with consistency, impulse control, or working around distractions like other dogs or people.

  • Vaccinated adult dogs who have taken Adult Dog 1.

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$225 / 5 weeks
🗓️ Begins Aug 4 @ 7:15pm

This advanced level group class will work on proofing skills to and learning complicated sequences of behaviors.

Adult Dog 3

  • Build on skills learned in adult 1 and 2, plus

    • Combining behaviors

    • Long distance sit and down

  • Best for dogs ready to level up their obedience with advanced skills, off-leash reliability, and real-world challenges like public spaces or group settings.

  • Completed Adult Dog 1 and 2.

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$180 / 4 sessions
🗓️ Begins Aug 3 @ 11:15am

This class teaches polite greetings and leash walking skills to help your dog navigate city streets and meet people with confidence.

Loose Leash Walking & Polite Greetings

    • Ways to approach (and be approached) by people as well as skills to call your dog away when needed.

    • Loose leash walking in the city.

    • Games and leash walking exercises that you can add as additional tools in your leash walking tool belt.

    • How to teach your dog not to jump on others

  • Best for dogs who get overly excited or unsure when meeting people and need help with leash manners in busy environments.

  • Vaccinated adult dogs.

$225 / 5 classes
🗓️ Begins Wed, Jul 16 @ 6pm

Our 5-week Canine Good Citizen (CGC) class is designed for you and your pup to build real-world skills and prepare for the official CGC test.

Canine Good Citizen

  • CGC Test Prep Skills:

    • Polite Greetings

    • Handling skills

    • Leash Walking with distractions

    • Stays with distance and duration

    • Recall from a distance

  • For dogs over 6 months who are looking to grow their obedience and temperament skills in a goal-oriented class.

  • Vaccinated adult dogs 6+ months who have taken at least one obedience class (with us or elsewhere).

Explore our specialty dog training classes in Chicago—designed to support calm behavior, confidence, cooperative care, and real-life skills for city dogs.

Specialty

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$225 / 5 classes
🗓️ Begins Jul 19 @ 11:15
Aug 4 @ 6pm

This class uses a mix of relaxation techniques, focus exercises and pattern games to give you all the tools you need to navigate life in a busy city.

Calm Copilot 1

    • Pattern games

    • Relaxation

    • Redirection techniques

    • Look at That (LAT)

    • Calming touch and massage with Caragh from Wellness & Wags

  • This class is perfect for adolescents, dogs with leash frustration, and any city pup that could use a little more calm and focus in their life!

  • Vaccinated adult dogs 12 months.

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Calm Copilot 2

$225 / 5 weeks
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This class builds on Calm Copilot with more relaxation techniques, focus exercises and pattern games.

  • Calm Copilot 2 with amp up distractions and add in new exercises to increase engagement and focus in any environment.

  • This class is perfect for adolescents, dogs with leash frustration, and any city pup that could use a little more calm and focus in their life!

  • Calm Copilot 1

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$225 / 5 weeks
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This unique class helps pups who need a little bit more time to warm up to the world.

Confident Copilot

  • Designed to help your pup build confidence in their environment, use tools to recover from a stressful event, and how to give your dog more choice in different situations.

  • Nervous dogs

  • Vaccinated adults dogs

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$180 / 4 weeks
🗓️ Begins Aug 3 @ 10am

In this class, we will on introducing your pup to the scratchboard, wiping their own paws, and more.

Cooperative Care

  • In this class, we will on introducing your pup to the scratchboard and wiping their own paws, introduce a few start button behaviors, and talk about the importance of consent in care.

  • Best for dogs who are nervous about grooming, vet visits, or handling and need help building comfort and trust through positive, low-stress care routines.

  • Vaccinated adult dogs.

$180 / 4 weeks
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Looking for more ways to engage and bond with your dog? Try tricks!! We'll work on a variety of tricks that will exercise your pup's mind and body

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Fun Sh!t That’s Cute

  • Have fun while strengthening your own understanding of how dog's move and learn.

    We'll do some old classics like spin and bow, as well as throwing in some more unique ones like teaching your dog to read!

  • Adult dogs

  • Vaccinated adult dogs.

$180 / 4 weeks
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Are you ready for Chicago’s patio season? This unique class teaches essential skills for relaxing in busy restaurant and café settings.

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Paws on the Patio

  • From ignoring food distractions to polite greetings and mat relaxation, your pup will learn how to be the best patio companion—just in time for summer hangs!

  • Adult dogs who enjoy a public outdoor setting

  • Vaccinated adult dogs.


Reactivity
Group Class

$450 / 6 weeks
🗓️ Begins Jul 29 @ 7:30pm

This class is for dogs with leash reactivity/frustration in a safe, group setting.

Class size is small (up to 4 dogs) and will be taught by two certified trainers.

First class is for humans only.

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    • Improving handling

    • Management skills to help you navigate city walks.

    • Counterconditioning exercises to help reduce reactions over time.

    • We will give you more information about why reactivity happens, body language, and changes we can make in our daily lives to help you and your pup.

  • Best for dogs who get overly excited or unsure when meeting people and need help with leash manners in busy environments.

  • Vaccinated adult dogs.


Buff Pups

$225 / 5 weeks
🗓️ Begins Jul 16 @ 7:15pm

A fun fitness class for dogs that builds strength, balance, and confidence with wiggles, wobbles, and bonding!

    • how to safely use fitness and agility equipment

    • how to build strength, balance and stability

    • new ways to engage your pup in distracting environments

  • Best for folks who want to work on new ways to engage and enrich their pup’s life through exercise, strength, and agility training methods. Great for folks who might want to dip their toe in dog sports to learn a bit more about how to get started.

  • Any basic obedience class.

    Vaccinated adult dogs.

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