Step 1 - Home Manners - Teach your dog the skills most needed in and around the house.

Everyday life with your dog should be enjoyable, not a constant battle. Essential Life Skills gives you the tools, confidence, and support to build reliable obedience and better manners for everyday life.

Build the skills your dog needs every day.

This comprehensive course focuses on the foundational skills your dog needs in and around the home. You will learn how to communicate clearly, reinforce good choices, and build reliability so your dog can respond to you in a variety of everyday situations.

Together, we will work on:

• Sit, down, stay, and recall

• Building distance and duration into basic commands

• Loose-leash walking skills

• Polite greetings and everyday manners

• Grooming and handling skills

• Brief separations and building independence

• Clear communication using hand signals and release cues

Earn Your AKC Canine Good Citizen title!

Essential Life Skills follows the AKC Canine Good Citizen program. For students that would like to take the CGC test, they can come back on any scheduled testing dates and the evaluator's fee will be waived.