What do you guys think of Dog Obedience Training at PetSmart?

Im interested in taking my dog to obedience training at Petsmart. If anyone has taken the classes Id like some feedback..... was it worth the money? did it seem like they were training your dog hands on? did the trainer personally helped with issues, or did he/she just basically read out of a book out loud to everyone? how did the trainer interact with each student? did it feel like a personal session or di it seem overcrowded and hard to keep up? thanks in advance.

It will depend on the specific Petsmart as it will depend upon the person they have hired as a trainer. I know some Petsmarts who have a person that has some clue and then there are others who use any little person that has some pseudo-'certification' they have set up. I personally do not refer to their classes if there is any other reasonable alternative at all. I personally would drive a far distance rather than go to one of their classes but then I realize that obedience classes are a once a week thing and they should be directed at training YOU and not the dog since the training of the dog comes when you take the dog home and then out to other places during the rest of the week on at least a daily basis to train the dog. Check the classes out - go and watch and ask about the trainer - how many dogs they have trained to what titles and what variety of techniques have they personally used and trained others to use successfully.

add: DO NOT 'just pick up a book' particularly not Kohler's and start jerking your dog around. Petsmart is likely not at all useful for serious training but it, again depending on the trainer they hired, better than doing some do it yourself training from some antiquated book using an antiquated and proven overall dileterious methodology. I never recommend, not silly enough to, someone to get a book or dvd or watch a show and train a dog.. you need someone watching you and giving feedback as to what you are doing.

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Petsmart Training Classes and simply just training my dog...???

I have a mini long hair dachshund. She's 1 yr and 1 month. I really wanna get her trained...just do to simple stuff like sit, roll over, and stay. well she already kind of knows how to stay....but i say whoah not stay (lol). and she taught herslef to fetch but i dont ever say fetch we're just playing. i want to enroll her in a Petsmart training class or something. my parents say no cause it'll be tooo expensive but we haven't even looked into it yet. what are average prices for level 1 training? (through petsmart) and if i should just train her on my own...any tips?

it's right around 100 bucks.

tell your parents the biggest advantage to training classes is the socialization aspect. Your dog is exposed to other people and other dogs in a very safe way. Dachshunds can be kind of nippy sometimes, and if your dog ever bites someone that certificate goes a long way toward convincing folks you're responsible dog owners. Maybe that'll get em on your side here.

sounds like you're pretty good at the training thing anyway. Mostly training is about giving the dog words for what it does naturally so it'll do them when you want. A class for you now could really help you develop a life long skill in an area you already seem to be talented. There's another argument for them, eh?

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