This dynamic class is a great way to build your dog’s focus on you and impulse control with distractions. Plus, you’ll refine your clicker skills and take your own training skills to a new level.
Progressing through WAGD’s Manners 1, 2 and 3 helps your dog develop into a great companion who can be a bigger part of your life. You will be able to increasingly count on his behavior in challenging, exciting and distracting environments. This class develops the skills to have a dog who is the star of the restaurant’s pet friendly patio, the farmers’ market, the vacation road trip, etc.
Your dog’s training will be proofed in challenging environments. We’ll sprinkle in working outside of the training ring (in the shop, parking lot or park) to help your dog “generalize” what he performs in the training ring to the outside world.
This class is excellent preparation for the AKC CGC (Canine Good Citizen) and CGCA (Advanced) tests. This class is also a requirement for our Therapy Prep and Great Dog! classes. Note: Make-ups are not available for this class due to the group nature of the exercises.
- Manners 2 or Class Readiness evaluation demonstrating required skills.
- If your dog is younger than 1 year, and they haven’t been in facility in 2 months or more, a new Class Readiness Evaluation is required.
- If your dog is older than 1 year, and they haven’t been in the facility in 6 months or more, a new Class Readiness Evaluation is required.
- Dogs must be current on vaccinations.
- Class Fee – $228
- Six consecutive weekly 50-minute class meetings at the designated day/time
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Your Instructors
Joy Hampton
Joy joined WAGD as a pet trainer in 2026. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in clinical psychology. Before graduating with her master’s she realized that animal training would be a better career/personality fit than counseling. She has always been an avid animal lover and became a vegetarian at 12-years of age. Even in high […]
Matt Henry
Matt first joined the What a Great Dog! Team in March of 2022. He completed the Karen Pryor Academy Dog Trainer Foundations course in the fall of 2022, and finished the WAGD Trainer Education Program in 2023. He teaches Pet Manners classes and does WOW In-home Training Sessions. As a child, Matt dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. Although he didn’t […]
Stephanie Schwanke
Stephanie joined What a Great Dog! in August of 2020. She is a shift manager and Pet Manners trainer in our Frisco location. If you have visited our retail store you may know her as “Aunt Stephanie”. All the pups know she’s always ready to give some extra love and treats, for good behavior of course. Before joining What a […]
Victoria Johnson
Victoria is a trainer for Manners classes, Puppy Preschool, Barn Hunt and private lessons. After joining the WAGD team in 2020, she completed WAGD’s Trainer Education Program and the Karen Pryor Academy Foundations course. Absolute Dogs’ Pro Dog Trainer and Pro Dog Trainer Geek programs were completed in 2021 and she is enrolled in their ongoing Training Academy and PDT […]