Intermediate Dog Manners and Obedience Classes

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If you have taken our Puppy or Adult Manners course, this is the perfect next step in order to help your dog reach its potential.

Now that your dog knows the basics, it's time to make all of the exercises much more challenging. We add the three D's (distance, duration and distractions) plus introduce some new commands in order to help your dog build and keep its focus. The goal continues to be for your dog to do what you say the first time, without repeating yourself.

By the end of the course, your dog should be able to excel at many foundational behaviors, even under highly challenging circumstances.

The course includes:

• Off-leash socialization, including advice about correcting unwanted behavior
• All of the behaviors listed below

Skills and behaviors include:

• Walk next to you politely (even without a leash), including through a crowd of people and past noisy distractions
• Stay for a long period of time, even from a distance, with your back turned, as you walk away
• Go to a place, such as a mat or crate
• Automatically go to your side when coming to you
• Leave things alone unless given permission (even really tempting things, like a pile of treats)
• Spin around in front of you
• Go into a sit and down from a long distance

Don't just stop at one Manners course and think you're finished - take the next step and enroll in Intermediate Manners so your dog can continue to improve and learn crucial lifelong skills.