Our Los Angeles dog trainers offer beginning, intermediate and advanced group classes as well as private sessions to teach your dog everything from obedience to tricks to becomming an American Kennel Association Canine Good Citizen. We offer dog training seminars to concentrate on and practice behaviors like loose leash walking, coming and staying. Our dog trainers address problem behaviors and nip them in the bud! Dog training in our beautiful Los Angeles facility consists of positive reinforcement and word marks or clicker sounds to accurately mark good behavior. Our dog trainers treat each dog as an individual, and tailor their training methods to suit your dog and your lifestyle. We work on building the relationship between you and your dog so that you can help your dog learn obedience commands, learn not to bark or chew or dig or pull on leash, and learn to follow your leadership out of love and respect.
*PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL FOR THE CURRENT CLASS AND SEMINAR SCHEDULE*
NEXT CLASSES:
Puppy Classes: Saturdays at 12:15pm
Beginning Obedience Classes: Saturdays at 10:30am and 1:30pm
Intermediate Obedience Classes: Saturdays at 2:45pm
Real Life Intermediate Classes: Saturdays at 9:00am
Loose leash seminars third Saturday of every month at 4pm
Come/stay seminar second Sunday of every month at 3pm
SEMINARS:
• Come/Stay: work on recall and staying in one spot
• Loose leash: work on walking nicely on a loose leash
• Prices: between $15 and $45 depending on seminar; please check
with our front desk
GROUP CLASSES:
• Beginning Obedience (learn all the basic behaviors)
• Puppy Class (learn basic behaviors along with housetraining,
learning to be handled, learning to stop mouthing,
jumping or chewing,learning how to be called away
from playing and how to play nicely with others)
*for puppies 5 months and under
• Intermediate Obedience with Canine Good Citizen Test
(strengthen behaviors around distractions and learn
what you need to pass the CGC test; test offered at end
of class)
• Real Life Intermediate Obedience (strengthen behaviors
in real life settings like coffee shops
and parks with real life distractions)
• $199 for 6 sessions; all meet once per week
PRIVATE LESSONS:work on any behavioral issue, fix things like jumping up, digging, separation anxiety, leash aggression, etc.
• Meet with a trainer at WagVille or your home
• Prices: $70/hour at WagVille, $90/hour at your home
• Packages: Package prices available for 3 or more lessons
Sierra SmithSierra Smith, CPDT, comes from a strong background working with shelters in the areas of humane education, animal behavior and training, and shelter management. After years of volunteering with Chicago animal shelters, in 2003 Sierra began working with The Anti-Cruelty Society, Chicago’s SPCA, in humane education. While there, she completed her fifteen-month long dog training apprenticeship with The Anti-Cruelty Society’s award winning School of Dog Training, where she later became an obedience class instructor. Sierra relocated to the Los Angeles area in 2005 to become the Animal Training and Behavior Specialist at SPCALA where she worked with both shelter dogs and privately owned dogs teaching obedience and solving many different types of behavioral problems. She created and lead Shelter Dog Training Classes and the Isolation Puppy Socialization Program. She also performed behavior evaluations on the shelter dogs and answered spcaLA’s behavior helpline. She eventually went on to become the Assistant Manager of spcaLA’s P.D. Pitchford Companion Animal Village in Long Beach. Currently Sierra is a dog trainer for DogPact and WagVille and an assistant agility instructor for Alpha Dog Agility Training. She is a Certified Pet Dog Trainer (CPDT) and a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) and the Southern California Dog Trainer’s Forum. She uses training methods grounded in learning theory that seek to strengthen the human / animal bond and positively influence the relationship between owners and their dogs. Sierra has a masters degree is organizational management and has two adopted cats and an adopted dog who practices agility with her.
Tara EricksonTara, a Las Vegas native, has lived with and trained animals throughout her life. She began by studying with and training marine mammals, perfecting her ability to use positive reinforcement to accomplish behaviors. She completed an internship in Hawaii as part of the Training and Education Team at Dolphin Quest, and carried those techniques over to the K9 arena. She now devotes herself completely to dog training. Tara trains dogs and people in both one on one settings and in group classes. She teaches beginning and advanced obedience, and has experience training K9’s to perform for television and movie roles. She believes that she learns from dogs as much as they learn from her, and continues to bolster her education by taking professional courses. She has received her certification in Dog Training from The Animal Behavior College and is also a full member of The Association of Pet Dog Trainers. She is certified to administer the American Kennel Association’s Canine Good Citizenship test. Her goal is to give EVERY dog a chance at a happy, full life. Tara’s philosophy of dog training is to find the right methods to apply to each dog as an individual, rather than impose one rigid method on all the dogs she meets. "Obedience is learning to listen to, listening to a dog until you find what is needed, rather than imposing yourself in the name of training" (The Monks of New Skete)
Caleb MoseCaleb, whose name actually refers to his ability to communicate with dogs, has an uncanny ability to work with canines. He has been training dogs for over 20 years. He is largely self-taught, and has spent a great deal of time working with 'last chance' dogs in shelters to help them develop the ability to live in a human-led world despite being abused or not socialized. He is calm, collected and extremely knowledgeable. His methods are positive and solution based, but they depend not on a rigid predetermined style but an ability to examine and deal with each dog as an individual. We know you will enjoy meeting with and learning from him.
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