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Join our Start Anytime Puppy Classes for dogs 16 weeks and under! Learning essentials while exploring new surfaces, sounds, and textures. Build confidence and gain valuable opportunities for positive socialization under the guidance of our professionals.
Join our Start Anytime Key Skills Classes and unlock badges and rewards for your efforts!
Key Skills covers all the essentials of navigating the world confidently and responsibly. From loose-leash walking to polite greetings and everything in between. Key Skills are foundational skills every dog needs to know. 14 weeks and up!
Key Skills is only the beginning.
Dive into our Badge Classes and earn Adventure Dogs, Clever Dogs, and Urban Dogs badges. Badges earn you class credits and swag!
Plus, get ready for activities like nose work, agility, tricks, obedience, and rally-obedience with these super-fun classes.
One-on-One Support
Private Lessons
Looking for personalized support? Our budget-friendly private lessons are available in-studio. These lessons help you maximize your training experience. Perfect for dogs dealing with anxiety, reactivity, leash-pulling and more or for owners who need additional guidance to understand concepts and gain more practice.
Behavioural Consults
Behaviour Consults are comprehensive professional interventions aimed at addressing and improving complex training challenges. If your dog is experiencing strong emotions regarding people, the environment, or other dogs a behaviour consult helps to pinpoint the function of the problematic behaviours and helps develop solutions. This is our go to service for dogs with aggression, fear and reactivity.
Professional Services
Did you know that The Dog School is here to support other trainers, too? Get in touch for trainer-to-trainer consults, equine clicker training for professional dog trainers, speaking engagements and more.
The Dog School, Inc also offers office-training sessions for companies that are dog-friendly to learn skills that make dogs at work a pleasure!
What's Included when you join The Dog School?
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Online Office Hours: Join us once a week for an informal ask-us-anything questions about dog training in small groups
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Orientation: Our Orientation Process ensures you've got the basics in place before your first class and allows you to confidently start training your dog right away
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When you sign up for a program, get a comprehensive manual that covers training and more.
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Training Exercise Library
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Access to Private Lessons and Behavioural Consults and our network of referrals for unique cases.
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Our Start Anytime Process allows for you to change your classes easily and without penalty. Can't make this Tuesday at 6pm? No Worries! Join one of our other times that suits you better.
About Sarah & Katrina
Sarah Shapiro-Ward (She/Her) holds a PhD, CPDT-KA & KPA-CTP. Sarah is a professional dog trainer best known for her viral trick videos of her cockapoo Percy playing Jenga, Connect 4 and painting on canvas. When not training tricks, Sarah also has extensive experience working with reactive and aggressive dogs and has an affinity for teaching group classes. Sarah is a frequent guest on the live call-in radio show CBC BC Today where she answers dog behaviour questions and has been featured on Jimmy Fallon, The Daily Mail UK, NHK Japan, Good Morning America, The New York Post and more. Sarah lives with her standard poodle, Elle, her cockapoo Percy and her horse Niamh.
Katrina Per-Carruthers (She/Her) is a pending CPDT-KA Dog Trainer with 15 years of experience teaching and training professional and amateur dog and horse owners all over Canada. Katrina is well-known for teaching clinics and seminars on animal behaviour and has a talent for helping the human half of the training equation find success. Katrina enjoys solving complex training problems with elegant solutions and shares her training passion with her Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Maeve, and her Haflinger horse named Samwise.
