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Training
Dog Obedience Training
Group and private training classes at PetSmart in Collegeville, PA.
PetSmart endorses only reward-based, non-force training methods. All PetSmart pet training instructors are accredited. Some of the top trainers and animal behaviorists in dog training today developed the curriculum! Classes are geared toward helping you build a special bond with your dog. Both you and your dog will see just how much fun learning can be. Groups are small, limited to 8 dog and handler teams to facilitate better learning through more individualized instruction and support.
Linda Cors is the Area Pet Training Instructor at PetSmart in Collegeville. Linda has been training dogs in both obedience and agility for over 20 years. She and her mixed-breed dogs, Riker and Hershey, have earned numerous Agility and Rally Obedience titles. Linda is an accredited obedience instructor and AKC Certified Canine Good Citizen Evaluator.
Classes available are:
- Puppy Education: socialization, housetraining, basic obedience (sit, down, stay, come, walking on a leash), problem prevention, and general house manners.
- Beginner Education: unlearning undesirable behaviors and learning new preferred behaviors, basic cues like sit, down, leave it, walking on a leash.
- Intermediate Education: games and exercises used to improve behaviors learned in Puppy and Beginner classes. New behaviors such as wait, go to your place, and heeling.
- Advanced Learning: High level distraction work with recalls, stay, heel. Games and exercises geared to prepare dogs for the AKC Canine Good Citizen test.
- Canine Good Citizen test http://www.akc.org/events/cgc/index.cfm
- Click-a-Trick: Using operant conditioning—the use of a reward marker (the clicker) to identify to your dog what he is doing correctly—you will teach fun tricks like roll over, bow, give paw in addition to learning how to teach fun tricks of your own.
- Day, evening, and weekend classes available.
Call PETSMART, Collegeville, at 610-489-8240, option 4 for class availability.