Puppy 101 (5.5 months old and younger)

You're a new "parent," congratulations! This 7-week course is for you and your puppy to experience training and fun together. This class is weekly and on the same day and time each week. The class will cover puppy manners, including sit, down, leave it, stay, loose leash walking and recalls. Puppy essentials, including house training, chew training, learning to like being handled, and preventing behavior problems.

Puppy socialization is very important early in your puppy's life. From 7 weeks to 5 months of age, your puppy goes through a socialization period that permanently shapes their future and how they react to their environment as an adult. Gently exposing him to a wide variety of people, places, and situations now will make a huge, permanent difference. The idea of socialization is helping your puppy to become acclimated to all types of sights, sounds, and smells in a positive way.

Cost of class: $170 for all 7 weeks - Prepayment required to reserve your spot

Current Classes:
December 4th, 5:15 PM. Instructor, Sophie.
January 5th, 12 PM. Instructor, Sophie.

Upcoming Classes:
February 2nd, 5:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.
March 5th, 6:15 PM. Instructor, Sophie.

Puppy 201

This will be a 6-week course where your puppy will continue to advance their skills. This class is weekly and on the same day and time each week. This class is perfect for practicing your puppy's skills for the real world. We will work on their obedience around new distractions, in new environments, and advance all their known commands while adding in new commands as well. Working on impulse, focus, and control, your puppy will be ready for any scenario that comes their way!

*This class requires graduation from puppy 101.

Cost of class: $155 for all 6 weeks - Prepayment Required

Current Classes:
November 24th, 6:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.

Upcoming Classes:
February 4th, 5:15 PM. Instructor, Sophie.
March 23rd, 6:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.

Basics 101 (dogs older than 6 months)

Basics 101 will give you a wide variety of obedience tools to help you improve the quality of life you experience with your dog. During this 7-week course, your dog will learn to master many commands dogs need to thrive! This class is weekly on the same day and time each week. Class includes instruction on look, sit, down, stay, walking, place, leave-it, recall, waiting at doorways, meet and greets, and tricks.

Cost of class: $170 - Prepayment Required

Current Classes:
November 24th, 7:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.
January 8th, 6:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.

Upcoming Classes:
February 10th, 5:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.
March 19th, 5:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.

Basic 201 (All Dogs Who Have Completed a Basic Obedience Class)

This 6-week class for dogs who have graduated from Basics 101 or Puppy 201, now we can start having fun with expanding our knowledge! We will be extending our dogs' training with more obedience and adding in distance, duration and distractions! During this course, there will be obedience at higher levels, games and field trips! This is the class to practice generalization with field trips.

Cost of class: $155 - Prepayment Required

Current Classes:
October 24th, 5:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.
December 22nd, 5:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.

Upcoming Classes:
February 9th, 6:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.
March 30th, 6:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.

Advanced 301 / CGC (All Dogs Who Have Completed 201)

This class was made to show off all the skills you have learned. Designed to get you prepped and ready to take the Canine Good Citizen test. It is a great class and a great certification to have from the AKC. CGC shows your dog knows advanced obedience, aggressive free, and is ready to be a therapy dog or go into more dog sports. Basic 301 is for Basic 201 graduates who are ready for the next step.

Cost of Class: $155 for 5 weeks.

Current Classes:

Upcoming Class:
February 18th, 6:15 PM. Instructor, Sophie.

Urban Canine Good Citizen / 401

This test is for dogs who completed our Canine Good Citizen and want to do a public class! We will use local places around Sioux Falls to test obedience and present the AKC Urban CGC.

Cost of Class: $135 for 4 weeks.

Current Classes:

Upcoming Classes:

Recall Class

Does your dog need work with their recall? Coming when called is the most important thing a dog should know and respond to! This class is specially made just for you, to build the recall of your dog. We cover motivating games to practice, teach you tips on how to proof your recall and more!

Your dog must be food motivated and ready to learn!

Cost of Class: $120 for 4 weeks.

Upcoming Class:

Group Class Game Changer

This drop-in class is for any previous or current training client. During this session, we will use unique and fun games to build engagement and solid obedience. These games will be a way to compete, have fun, and enjoy training with your dog in a welcoming atmosphere!

One class - $20
Limit 6 Dogs

Upcoming:

Loose Leash Heeling Class

This is a 4 week long class that will be going over loose leash skills and walking nicely on a leash. We will be practicing distractions, proper reward and working on proper timing! This class is ideal for dogs and owners who want to perfect their loose leash walking skills.

Price: $120 for 4 weeks.

Upcoming Classes:
January 21st, 6:15 PM. Instructor, Sophie.

Prong Collar 101

Requirements: Dogs with past prong collar training from Paws.

This 4-week-long class is all for dog's and their owners to work on loose leash walking with and without distractions. This is an educational class with practical examples, distractions, and training for your dog to learn how to effectively work on a prong collar.
Proper Leash Handling is our main goal in this class!

Price: $120 for all 4 weeks.

Current Classes:

Upcoming Classes:
January 6th, 5:15 PM. Instructor, Olivia.

Testimonials

Our experience at Paws has been the BEST! Basic 101 with our golden retriever/lab, Honey, has been life-changing for our family. Honey was adopted through the rescue connection from Pine Ridge. Honey was attacked and lived in a foster home prior to our family. She is full of love but we were having a hard time communicating, walking, behaviors with other dogs. After Basic 101 training, Honey is able to understand commands and walk in a leash without pulling. We can communicate with the skills we learned at Paws that we use every minute with her. She is confident with people and other dogs. Honey even learned doorway manners, how to crawl, roll over, and twirl! Olivia is just the most amazing instructor! - Andrea and Honey