Level up your skills
✨ Progressing through the five Dog Trainer School level badges takes you and your dog from foundation skills to polished, real-world teamwork.
✨ Early levels focus on essentials like a joyful, reliable recall, a responsive hand target, and calm, confidence-building cooperative care.
✨ As you advance, your dog sharpens polite door manners, learns thoughtful impulse control with leave it, and develops smooth, attentive loose lead walking. You will steadily build distance, distractions and duration, strengthening your dogs ability to focus anywhere.
✨ Higher levels introduce more advanced and engaging challenges, including precise retrieves, stimulating scent games and an expanding repertoire of tricks that build focus, problem-solving, and enthusiasm for training.
How it works
Our skill building structure is designed to fit perfectly within a 6-week rolling block of classes, giving you flexibility while keeping your training on track.
Each 6-week block allows you to work toward the badge level that matches your dog’s current skills—whether you’re just starting out or building advanced behaviors.
You can continue from block to block to progress through all five levels at a steady pace, or dip in and out whenever life gets busy and return right where you left off.
Every badge highlights key achievements as you and your dog develop stronger communication, reliability, and confidence. This structure keeps training accessible, flexible, and fun while still giving you a clear pathway to success.