We took Emma to Petco classes and they were a JOKE. I would never recommend those classes to anyone!
Aside from being poorly run, unorganized, and TOO lenient, they were expensive for what we got out of them! She knew all the tricks before we took her to classes-started classes at 14 weeks. She improved on leash walking-but we think that was just experience and age of being on the leash. Her improvements were AFTER the classes were over, and we walked her twice each day. It was good for her socialization, but I wonder if we could have gotten that going to doggie daycare or a dog park. The big dogs in the class were all over the place, and their owners didn't understand or didn't care that their 35 pound "puppies" could seriously injure one of the toy breed puppies in the class. They played SO rough, and NO one said or did anything about it!
I have heard good things about the rescue league classes or the real "training" classes. We might go to something like this later on. |