The right class for your puppy, or your growing dog.

Puppy Foundations isn't obedience class with a lower age limit. It's the six weeks where we build a dog who's confident instead of fearful, social instead of reactive, and comfortable being handled by a vet, a groomer, or a kid. You'll get sit, down, come, and a leash your puppy doesn't fight — but those are the easy part. The real work is everything your puppy decides is normal while they're still deciding.

• Supervised play with size-matched puppies — the safest socialization your puppy will ever get
• Handling that makes vet visits and nail trims boring instead of a wrestling match
• First obedience: name, sit, down, come, and fifteen steps of loose leash
• Straight answers on biting, chewing, crating, and house-training, every single week
• Confidence around umbrellas, wheels, hats, kids, and everything else that spooks a young dog
• Built to the AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy standard, with an evaluation and certificate at graduation

The socialization window doesn't reopen. Every week you wait is a week you don't get back — which is the only reason we cap this at eight and run it on a fixed start date.

Most dogs are perfectly obedient in the kitchen. The problem shows up on a sidewalk with a squirrel forty feet out. Adult Manners builds the version of obedience that survives that moment — duration, distance, and distraction, layered in over six modules until the cue works whether or not you have a treat in your hand. And it teaches the thing most owners never think to ask for: how to be calm around other dogs instead of losing it.

• A loose leash that stays loose past other dogs, joggers, and food on the ground
• Recall that works the first time you call, not the fourth
• Sit, down, and stay with real duration — long enough to eat a meal on a patio
• Calm around other dogs: neutrality, not chaos
• Impulse control at doorways, food bowls, and anything that hits the floor
• Builds toward the AKC Canine Good Citizen test, evaluated on site

Six to eighteen months is when jumping, pulling, and selective hearing show up — and it's the age dogs most often get surrendered. This is the stretch where training either happens or the habits set.