Due to COVID-19, our group classes are so full that we’ve discontinued offering it and are now focusing on individualized private sessions. We are still able to meet at places where dogs are around (e.g., pet friendly stores, outside of the dog park, etc.) and can bring a dog to you to slowly build your
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Group obedience classes have definitely been highly requested since COVID-19 hit, and with good reason. Dogs are having less playdates and not dining out with their owners anymore. Dog lovers are looking for group obedience classes for the socialization aspect. From a trainer’s standpoint, dogs usually have a few behavioral issues that they’ve got to
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We wanted to congratulate another July Elementary class! With the practice of our COVID-19 Response & Guidelines, everyone was able to stay healthy and work on obedience around other dogs! (No group picture during this time. Individual family unit pictures was the safer route. Please visit A+ Dog Training on FB or @209dogtraining on IG
Read more Right after the Shelter in Place and the parks opened up, we made a group class of 5. It just so happened that there were 5 dogs needing a little more extra help with socialization than usual. So we customized the class to help the humans be more comfortable taking their dogs out around other
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Due to COVID-19, we had to reduce the size of our classes to a maximum of 5 dogs at the beginning of June. We were fortunate to have 5 dogs from both April & May’s Elementary classes that needed to be rescheduled. These five particular dogs need a lot more help NOT reacting to other
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A+ Dog Training’s Junior High class is five-weeks long and focuses on Stay at a long distance and for a long duration. I hope you enjoy some pics of our students!
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Our classes have been in such high demand that there was a waiting list for all classes. In order to honor our clients, A+ Dog Training now only offers the obedience classes to owners that have signed up for any of A+ Dog Training’s private training programs. This helps owners resolve any behavioral issues first,
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Today’s Feel Good Friday post goes to Nala who loves the coolness of Pet Supplies Plus’ floor during recess time for one of our classes. We hope everyone enjoys Turlock’s Christmas Parade tonight! Look for us on the LightHouse Family Church float.
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A Reactive Dog is a dog that barks, lunges, or pulls when they see another dog. Often the owner believes the dog wants to play but the behavior is normally motivated by frustration or fear. Suppressing a behavior is like suppressing a ball down in a pool of water. Eventually it’ll slip through your hands
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Meet Patti, a Pug puppy with the zoomies who loves to eat plants. With A+ Dog Training’s Calm Canine + Puppy Exclusive, Patti will learn to leave the plants alone; along with other boundaries and rules around the house. Welcome to our pack family, Patti!
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A+ Dog Training’s Kindergarten class is a five-week obedience course for puppies one year and younger (fully vaccinated) to work on obedience around other distractions. At the end of each class, there is a twenty-minute play time where owners learn what good play and bad play is and how to supervise their puppy’s play manners.
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Congratulations to July 2019’s Junior High Graduates. Junior High is our intermediate-level dog obedience class. When you sign up for A+ Dog Training’s Calm Canine program, you get two 5-week-long classes to fine tune your obedience. This means you dog could take Kindergarten & Elementary, Kindergarten & Junior High, Elementary & Junior High, or Elementary
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Meet Chewy, a Maltese Poodle Mix who’s looking pretty scared during his first training session! Chewy’s owners saw us training another client in front of Cold Stone’s in Turlock, California one day and asked for our business card. It wasn’t until they added a new human addition to their family that they called us to
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Congratulations to June’s Elementary Graduates! A+ Dog Training’s mission is to create peace in the home. This can be accomplished with one-on-one personalized training sessions at your home where we can resolve behavioral issues. Anyone can teach a dog how to Sit. But a dog won’t learn how to Sit if they don’t know how
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GiGi recently attended a 4H Workshop to better help the kids of Hughson, California, learn life skills through training their dogs in obedience and showmanship.
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A+ Dog Training attended a dog training conference this week in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was a fantastic conference and we are ready to start next week with new and exciting “tips of the trade” with our clients. This conference touched on some dog obedience training as well as working with behavioral or reactive dogs.
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Congratulations to Mr. Pugsley for completing his first dog obedience class!
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Congratulations to our most recent students from our American Kennel Club’s Canine Good Citizen class! We went through all 10 steps for CGC. Some of our clients were interested in taking the exam, while others just wanted their dogs to be good citizens. Either way, we are proud of all of their hard work and
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As the Stanislaus County Fair comes to a close, A+ Dog Training wants to post a few more pictures of the Hughson 4H Dog Project and the kids that they are so proud of! GiGi has a heart for teaching kids. She doesn’t miss the classroom-teaching she did for 15 years because now she can
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Owen & his Dalmatian Pence placed 4th in Novice obedience & 2nd in Advance Showmanship. It is such a pleasure working with this team. They show up to every practice and we could tell they do their homework! This dog handling team get an A+ in our book!
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