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dog training
Looking for recommendations for dog training around Albany. Is Petsmart okay? Or is it best to go through a private trainer? TIA!
Re: dog training
I had a really good experience with albany obedience club
http://www.berk.com/aoc/
Our trainer (Tara Baggerman) is amazing, but slightly farther north. She does house calls though. We do agility with her, but she does all types of dog training.
www.calibercanines.com
2010 Highlights
9/26 Adirondack Marathon 5:11:37 (major knee pain, but hey, I finished!)
2011 Races and Results
5/29 Buffalo Marathon (5:25 - not pretty, just trying not to get heatstroke!)
9/25 Adirondack Marathon (take 2!)
One of these days I'll have a good marathon!
We did obedience with Guinness through the Schenectady Dog Training Club. It's way out on Gower Rd. in Scotia -- we lived in Sch'dy at the time so it wasn't bad. They are really into what they do, and they're good at it. It just wasn't quite what *I* wanted to do!
It was a great puppy kindergarten class there, but we dropped out of obedience 1 halfway through. They were too intense for me -- not just the teacher, but others in the class who kept trying to correct me. That annoyed the heck out of me; wrangling a high-energy 6 month old puppy was frustrating enough without classmates breathing down my neck. Their goals also didn't align with mine. I wanted an obedient dog who listened, but I didn't care whether he wanted hand signals or a word, "wait" vs. "stay," etc. They cared a lot about those details. "Obedience" there was more like "intro to showing commands." The puppy-k class gave me enough to work with him at home more effectively, though. We just did therapy dog certification this winter, and that was a breath of fresh air. I needed to be able to get the behavior from him that I wanted, but didn't have to use a single particular "show-appropriate" word to get it.
I think the quality of the classes at SDTC was better than you'd find at Petsmart, though, and it was pretty reasonably priced.