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Semi-Private Training
Below are our semi-private group training class descriptions. Registration for group classes is located at the bottom of the page. Spring I and Spring II are open for registration!
If you have any questions about our classes, please email training@theboardhound.com to speak with our training department.
Semi-Private Training Class Overview
The Board Hound offers semi-private training classes to accommodate every level of obedience. Our group classes are designed with a very high trainer to student ratio, with 2-4 students in each class. Semi-private training ensures individual attention throughout your training experience. Our group training classes are offered in the Spring and Fall.
Foundational Obedience
Introduction to clicker training and obedience skills. Curriculum includes sit, down, intro to stay behaviors, and intro to leash manners! For puppies and adult dogs 16 weeks and older.
Prerequisite: None
Intermediate Obedience
Focus on advancing knowledge and improving consistency of skills. Curriculum and activities include advancing stay behaviors, advancing leash manners, polite greetings, and outdoor generalizing!
Prerequisite: FO
Advanced Obedience
Our advanced classes are offered in two different formats. Choose one or take them both! See descriptions for each class option below
Café Manners
Focus on developing real-world skills for public places. Curriculum includes advancing your dog’s down stay, developing a “place” cue, and other key skills necessary to taking your dog into public spaces. This class is primarily held indoors (in our facility) and some of the class may be off-leash.
Prerequisite: FO & IO
Urban Canine*
Focus on generalizing real-world leash skills, and other key outdoor skills, in downtown Old Town, Alexandria! This class is held all outdoors, and a perfect class option for owners that love to go on outings with their pup!
Prerequisite: FO & IO
*Because Urban Canine is hosted 100% outdoors, this class may not be suitable for clients or dogs with mobility restrictions, or for dogs with leash reactivity or aggression.
Master’s Obedience Workshops
Master’s workshops are offered for further advancing training skills and are currently offered for students that have completed the matching advanced Obedience topic.
Café Manners Workshop
Single-session, drop-in style, classes custom to your and your dog’s skill level. This class is designed to troubleshoot training challenges and continued advancement of your dog’s Café Manners skills.
Prerequisite: FO, IO, & AOCM
Urban Canine Workshop
Single-session, drop-in style, classes custom to your and your dog’s skill level. This class is designed to troubleshoot training challenges and continued advancement of your dog’s Urban Canine skills.
Prerequisite: FO, IO, & AOUC
Register for Group Classes & Workshops
All semi-private classes require New Client Registration with up-to-date vaccines. Upper level classes also require completed pre-requisites for registration.
Missed a class? Schedule your make up session by emailing training@theboardhound.com
At The Board Hound, our daycare was established to enrich the lives of the dogs in our community through healthy outlets for play and socialization. Our smaller play groups come with individual care and attention, while providing a low-stress, safe, daycare environment at our location in Alexandria, Virginia. Since safety is our first priority, we start with providing a high staff to dog ratio of about 1 to 10. This personalization ensures that your dog is always closely monitored.