Avondale, Chicago

Adult Dog Group Training Classes in Chicago

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Classes are located at our Avondale HQ at 3266 N. Elston Avenue in Chicago!

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Obedience Classes

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.

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Foundational Obedience for the Urban Pup

$225 / 5 classes
🗓️ Multiple dates available!

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.

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  • 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.

    • Your pup is six months or older

    • Vaccinated

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Intermediate Obedience for the Real World

$225 / 5 weeks
🗓️ Sun, Sept 14 @ 10am

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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  • 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.

    • Has taken Adult 1, OR instructor approval before signing up for a class

    • Your pup is six months or older

    • Vaccinated

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Advanced
Obedience

$225 / 5 weeks
🗓️ Thurs, Nov 6 @ 7:15PM

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

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  • 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.

    • Has taken Adult 1 and Adult 2, OR by instructor approval

    • Your pup is six months or older

    • Vaccinated

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Loose Leash Walking & Polite Greetings

$180 / 4 sessions
🗓️ Multiple dates available!

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

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    • 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.

    • Has taken at least one basic obedience class, OR instructor approval before signing up for a class

    • Your pup is six months or older

    • Vaccinated

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Canine Good Citizen (CGC)

$225 / 5 classes
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Our 5-week Canine Good Citizen class is designed for you and your pup to build real-world skills and prepare for the official CGC test.

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  • 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.

    • Has taken at least one basic obedience class, OR instructor approval before signing up for a class

    • Your pup is six months or older

    • Vaccinated

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Specialty & Reactivity Classes

Designed to support calm behavior, confidence, cooperative care, and real-life skills for city dogs.

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Calm Copilot 1

$225 / 5 classes
🗓️ Multiple dates available!

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

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    • 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!

    • Has taken at least one basic obedience class, OR instructor approval before signing up for a class

    • Your pup is 12 months or older OR instructor approval

    • Vaccinated

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Calm Copilot 2

$225 / 5 weeks
🗓️ Begins Mon, Oct 27 @ 7:15PM

This class builds on Calm Copilot with more relaxation techniques, focus exercises and pattern games.

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  • 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!

    • Has taken Calm Copilot 1

    • Vaccinated

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Reactivity 1

$450 / 6 weeks
🗓️ Begins Tue, Oct 28 @ 7:30 pm

This class is for dogs with leash reactivity/frustration in a safe, group setting. Class size is 4 dogs and 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.

    • Has taken at least one basic obedience class, OR instructor approval before signing up for a class

    • Your pup is six months or older

    • Vaccinated

Fun Sh!t That’s Cute: Tricks

$180 / 4 weeks
🗓️ Mon, Sept 22 @ 7:15pm

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.

Each pup will work on their own skills, so you can take this class as many times as you want!

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

    This class is for those who want to learn some fun tricks with their pups, or those who are interested in working on their trick titles through AKC! It’s a build-your-own-tricks course with the option to test for the trick titles during the last class.

  • Adult dogs

    • Has taken at least one basic obedience class, OR instructor approval before signing up for a class

    • Your pup is six months or older

    • Vaccinated

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Confident
Copilot

$225 / 5 weeks
🗓️ Thu, Sept 25 @ 7:15PM

This unique class helps pups who need a little bit more time to warm up to the world. We’ll work on simple nose work exercises, pattern games, enrichment, and other skills to help your pup gain confidence living in a chaotic city.

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  • Techniques and games that we’ll help your pup become more confident

  • Dogs who get nervous in new environments

    • Has taken at least one basic obedience class, OR instructor approval before signing up for a class

    • Your pup is six months or older

    • Vaccinated

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Buff Pups:
Canine Fitness

$225 / 5 weeks
🗓️ Wed, Sept 10 @ 6pm

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

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    • 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.

    • Has taken at least one basic obedience class, OR instructor approval before signing up for a class

    • Your pup is six months or older

    • Vaccinated

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Vet Prep:
No Ruff Visits!

$220 / 4 weeks
🗓️ Sun, Sept 28 @ 11:15am

This class focuses on giving your dogs the skills needed to have happier, safer, and more cooperative vet visits. We will teach a combination of skills that have a vet check out your dog, settle better at the clinic, and learn to want to opt in to handling procedures. Classes 1-3 meet at Copilot. Class 4 meets at Fauna Veterinary (1039 W Lawrence Ave).

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    • how to use the scratchboard to file nails

    • mat relaxation

    • positions for vet exams

    • prepare for vet visit equipment and handling

  • Best for teams whose pups might need a little extra preparation to be calm and confident during vet visits.

    • Has taken at least one basic obedience class, OR instructor approval before signing up for a class

    • Your pup is six months or older

    • Vaccinated