This is our foundational manners course for puppies and dogs of all ages. It’s a 6-week class focused on teaching you how to teach your dog good manners and behaviors using reward and engagement. A great class for dogs of all ages—from puppies to adolescent dogs and even older dogs that just need a refresher—it is also perfect for dogs that are settling into a new home that could use a reminder on their manners, or that may not have had any previous training.

Topics will include: good manners, appropriate greetings, leash walking, and coming when called. We’ll work on increasing duration, distance, and distraction.

🚫 Reactive dogs (dogs that aggressively bark, lunge, or growl at people or dogs) are not eligible for this class, but may be suitable for Reactive Rover. Please contact us for recommendations.

✅ Prerequisite: None

This is a basic manners class for dogs that are overly friendly, bouncy, and bursting with energy—and maybe impulsive or having a hard time remembering what you thought they knew. In this 6-week class, we focus on teaching you how to teach your dog good manners and behaviors using reward and engagement. We will focus on skills to help these dogs be successful by channeling this energy with impulse games, building focus, as well as appropriate greetings and basic manners. 

🚫 Reactive dogs (dogs that aggressively bark, lunge, or growl at people or dogs) are not eligible for this class, but may be suitable for Reactive Rover. Please contact us for recommendations.

✅ Prerequisite: None

This is a 6-week beginning manners class for dogs that plan to pursue dog sports and activities such as agility, rally, nose work, field work, or barn hunt. With an emphasis on engagement, focus, and learning to work enthusiastically with their handler, this class is great for dogs of all ages—from puppies to adolescent dogs, or even older dogs. 

Topics will include foundation sport skills such as learning how to work at the handler’s side, an introduction to using targets and stations, using toy play and food as a reward, as well as all the basics like sit, down, stay, and coming when called. 

🚫 Reactive dogs (dogs that aggressively bark, lunge, or growl at people or dogs) are not eligible for this class, but may be suitable for Reactive Rover. Please contact us for recommendations.

✅ Prerequisite: None

This 6-week class helps build the foundation skills necessary to advance into agility, flyball, obedience, rally, or other dog sports. 

The class covers effective toy play techniques and food reinforcement to build and keep engagement. The reinforcement strategies will encourage both working close to the handler and moving away from the handler. We’ll work on training techniques such as shaping, targeting, and chaining; shadow handling/circle work; both sides of the handler; advanced sit/down stays; on- and off-leash heeling; and recall skills with distractions. The class also covers strategies for managing arousal, focus, and understanding how to redirect dogs away from distractions. 

🚫 Reactive dogs (dogs that aggressively bark, lunge, or growl at people or dogs) are not eligible for this class, but may be suitable for Reactive Rover. Please contact us for recommendations.

✅ Prerequisite: Successful completion of Companion/Performance Dog Manners or instructor approval

This 6-week class is designed to prepare you for the AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy® test. Upon passing the test, you’ll get an application to send to AKC for enrollment in the AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy® Program. All dogs are welcome to participate in the program, including purebreds and mixed breeds.

In this class, you and your pup will also learn the foundational behaviors leading toward the AKC Canine Good Citizen test including sit, down, recalls, tolerance of handling, tolerance of strangers, and more.

This continuing 6-week class builds off of the skills learned in Foundation Agility One. You and your dog will learn to build stronger commitment and independence to obstacles. Dogs will be introduced to all agility equipment. 

✅ Prerequisite: Foundation Agility One and instructor approval

This continuing 6-week class is focused on skills, drills, and coursework for teams to progress toward running full agility courses. You and your dog will continue to become proficient on all equipment, especially contacts and weaves. 

Before joining this class, you and your dog should be proficient in handling a course with 5-8 obstacles including jumps and tunnels, and your dog should have been introduced to all equipment.

✅ Prerequisite: Foundation Agility Two and instructor approval

This is a continuing 6-week class focused on skills, drills, and coursework for teams to be successful in future competitions for all venues. Dogs do not need to be fluent with all equipment, but should be familiar with jumps, tunnels, and contact equipment (exception for teeter and weaves) and be able to complete a course with 10-12 obstacles. 

✅ Prerequisite: Novice Agility and instructor approval

This is a 6-week continuing class focused on skills, drills, and courses for teams to be successful in all agility venues (AKC, USDAA, UKI, CPE, NADAC, ASCA). You and your dog will learn advanced handling for masters level courses including backsides, threadles, and distance handling. Teams in this class should already be fluent with all agility equipment. 

✅ Prerequisite: Previous agility foundation training and instructor approval

This 6-week continuing class focuses on skills, drills, and coursework for students to be successful in UKI and International-style courses. Dogs in this class should be fluent with all agility equipment. In the class, you will learn to handle the most complex sequences in the game today from our most decorated instructors. You will learn more precise execution and other advanced maneuvers to tackle those big courses.

✅ Prerequisite: Previous agility foundation training and instructor approval

This is an instructor-less, seasonal offering. It is a practice group for anyone who wants to try international coursework and skills. We have a different international judge designing the courses each time it is offered. Join the waitlist or contact us.

✅ Prerequisite: Previous agility training with proficiency on all equipment and instructor approval

This is a continuing 4-week all-levels group class. Teams take turns in the ring with the instructor learning the cues and signals for a fun and fast hunt.

✅ Prerequisite: Introduction to Barn Hunt and instructor approval

Email Kelsey with questions or to discuss whether this group class is appropriate for you and your dog.

Private lessons allow teams to continue to learn at their own pace. The instructor will help you troubleshoot any specific problems, and you will also learn the rules for competing in different venues and strategies for your team.

• Novice, Open, Senior, or Master Level (determines how many rats will be placed)
• 25-minute or 55-minute lessons
• Can accommodate up to 2-4 dogs depending lesson duration

✅ Prerequisite: Introduction to Barn Hunt

Email Kelsey with questions.

Join the Rainier Disc Dog Team in the worldwide K9 Frisbee Toss & Fetch League for a 5-week event that happens multiple times a year. Every week, each dog and handler team get two one-minute or 90-second rounds scored to compete against teams worldwide over five weeks of play. 

✅ Prerequisite: Introduction to Disc Dog or experience with Disc Dog competition and organizer approval

Email Michelle for the schedule and approval. Check out the Rainier Disc Dog Team on Facebook.

Flyball team practices are hosted through Cascade Comets Dog Sports Club. Limited spots are available and flyball experience and approval is required.

✅ Prerequisite: Flyball experience and instructor approval

Email Cascade Comets with questions. Check out the Cascade Comets Dog Sports Club on Facebook.

This 6-week class continues the foundational concepts learned in Intro to K9 Nose Work® and takes the game to a new level with more fun, increasing dogs’ natural scenting abilities and their desire to hunt. It uses problem solving techniques and games by raising the height of the “hide” (treat) and beginning interior, exterior, and vehicle searches.

✅ Prerequisite: Introduction to K9 Nose Work® or instructor approval

This continuing 6-week class introduces the target oils, beginning with Birch followed by Anise and Clove. Utilizing the principles of K9 Nose Work® learned in the intro classes, it provides the foundation skills for competition(if desired), or just another level of fun for both you and your dog. Teams will work box drills and indoor searches with an introduction to exterior searches on odor while continuing the fun and confidence-building.

✅ Prerequisite: Completion of both Introduction to K9 Nose Work® classes or instructor approval

In this continuing 6-week class, you and your dog are introduced to vehicle searches and exterior searches using Birch essential oil. Dogs will learn how to search a vehicle and conduct exterior searches as well as the way odor moves with the wind and on certain materials. Competition procedures will also be discussed for those who wish to continue in this amazing new urban sport.

✅ Prerequisite: Completion of K9 Nose Work® Intro to Odor or instructor approval

This continuing 6-week class focuses on improving handler skills, including leash handling, spatial considerations, reading your dog’s changes of behavior, and improving your dog’s odor obedience and efficiency in working odor puzzles in a variety of elements (e.g. interiors, exteriors, containers, and/or vehicles). Teams in this class will begin to prepare for their NW1.  

✅ Prerequisite: Dogs must be on odor for at least 4 months, have completed both Introduction to K9 Nose Work® classes, or receive instructor approval

This 6-week class continues to focus on handler skills, including leash handling, search patterns and spatial considerations, and reading your dog’s body language. You will also work on exercises for your dog to improve odor obedience, efficiency in working scent cones, sourcing odor with accessible and inaccessible hides, low and elevated hides, as well as searching multiple hide placements in all four elements. 

✅ Prerequisite: Dogs must be on odor for at least 4 months, completed NW1 Skill Building (or equivalent), or receive instructor approval

This 6-week class uses specific exercises designed to improve search plans, use of time in search areas, recognition of behavior changes, multiple hides in an area, and complex search areas and hide locations. 

✅ Prerequisite: Dogs must be on odor for at least 6 months, completed NW 2 Skill Building (or equivalent), or receive instructor approval

In this 6-week class, dogs and handlers will be exposed to Elite and Summit level search parameters, including search areas that are very large and small, multiple and/or close proximity hides, various elevations, suspended hides, deep inaccessible, and more. We will also discuss strategy, search plans, and building drive and stamina—all of which are needed for success at these levels. 

✅ Prerequisite: Dogs must be training and/or competing at the NW3 level and instructor approval

This 6-week class covers the exercises found in AKC’s Intermediate and Advanced-level Rally classes and will prepare you and your dog for competition at that level. Teams will progress to off-leash heeling as they are ready. 

✅ Prerequisite: Introduction to Rally Novice Skills or instructor approval

In this continuing 6-week course, you will progress through the excellent rally skills including off-leash heeling, bypassing distractions, and tricks like backing up, jumps, and spins. AKC Masters exercises will be mixed in, introducing more freestyle-like tricks. 

✅ Prerequisite: Advanced Rally or instructor approval

Scent Games is the perfect class for teams interested in a casual introduction to nosework. Dogs will learn to search for food using a series of fun games that you can practice on rainy days and in the comfort of your own home. No special tools or equipment needed!

🚫 Reactive dogs (dogs that aggressively bark, lunge, or growl at people or dogs) are not eligible for this class, but may be suitable for Reactive Rover. Please contact us for recommendations.

✅ Prerequisite: None

Learn foundations for fun new behaviors! Whether it’s to compete in sports or to just have a good time with your dog, this 6-week class will cover tricks, body awareness exercises, and heeling positions used in Rally, Rally Freestyle, and beyond. We can cover specific tricks you want to teach for Trick Dog titles too! Some trick ideas include retrieving items, taking a bow, and walking backwards around you—let your imagination run wild!

🚫 Reactive dogs (dogs that aggressively bark, lunge, or growl at people or dogs) are not eligible for this class, but may be suitable for Reactive Rover. Please contact us for recommendations.

✅ Prerequisite: None