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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$180 for 4 weeks
🗓️ Saturdays, rolling admissions

4-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 2 or 3 rounds of bordetella, distemper, and parvo vaccines

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$180 for 4 weeks
🗓️ Begins Tue, June 17 @ 6pm (no class July 6)

This 4-week course is meant as a bridge for pups between 5-12 months who have taken Puppy 1 & aren't quite ready for an intermediate class.

Puppy 2

  • We'll work on strengthening behaviors like…

    • Leash walking

    • Stays

    • Leave it

    • Pattern games for engagement

    • Plus, tips about how to tackle life with an adolescent pup!

  • Puppies between 5-12 months of age

  • Taken Puppy 1 class

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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 vaccinations one week prior to play.

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
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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
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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 June 17th @ 7:15pm

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.

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 Sun, June 15 @ 10am (no class July 6)

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
🗓️ Begins Mon, June 9 @ 6pm

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 / 5 weeks
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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.

From the over-excited and happy to meet everyone dog to the nervous, unsure and overwhelmed pup, these classes introduce tools to helping your dog in social settings and city life.

Walking & Reactivity

Loose Leash Walking & Polite Greetings

$180 / 4 sessions
🗓️ Begins June 17th @ 7:15pm

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.

    • How to read your dog’s body language

    • Teaching your dog to disengage from their triggers

    • How to use enrichment for leash reactive dogs

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

  • Vaccinated adult dogs.

Reactivity
Group Class

$450 / 6 weeks
🗓️ Begins May 31 @ 10am

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.

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