Step 2 - Neighborhood Areas - Practice expanding those skills and also transition to outdoor environments.

Your dog knows the basics. Now it is time to make those skills more reliable when the world around you gets a little more distracting.

Take your training outside the classroom.

Neighborhood Prep builds on the skills your dog already knows at home and helps you bridge that gap in other environments so you can enjoy more activities together. We will add distance, duration, and distractions while helping your dog learn to stay focused and respond to you when there is more going on around them. 

Together, we’ll work on:

• Building distance and duration into your dog’s existing skills

• Improving focus and responsiveness around distractions

• Practicing reliable recalls and stays

• Strengthening loose-leash walking and attention

• Working around people, dogs, and other environmental distractions

• Learning how to transfer training from the classroom to outdoor environments

• Building your confidence handling your dog in real-world situations

Earn Your AKC CGC Advanced Community title!

Neighborhood Prep follows the AKC CGC Advanced Community program. A CGCA testis included for everyone during the last class, but each student has the option as to whether or not to officially reigster it with the AKC.