Classes

Professional Training
for Dogs of All Ages and Skill Levels

Going back to school doesn't have to be a chore. Both you and your pet will enjoy learning together with our trainers. At Covenant Keeper's K9 Training Facility, we provide innovative animal training programs for casual pet owners and aspiring and experienced trainers. Please visit our Book Now page to book your class today. All group classes are held at The Hydrant (28 W S fourth St) in Montrose.

Puppy Paw Academy

$150 for a 4-week in-person class with a full online class available.

Puppy Paws Academy Class Description

Welcome to Puppy Paws Academy, where we lay the foundation for a lifetime of good behavior, social skills, and happy relationships between you and your puppy. Our comprehensive classes are designed to meet the unique needs of young puppies, ensuring they grow into well-behaved and confident dogs.

Class Structure:

Duration: Each session lasts 1 hour.

Schedule: Weekly classes are held on Wednesday evenings for convenience.

Age Group: Puppies aged 8 weeks to 4 months.

Class Size: Small groups of only 6 to ensure personalized attention.

Curriculum:

Basic Obedience: Teaching essential commands such as sit, down, come, and leash manners.

House Training: Guidance on effective housebreaking techniques.

Socialization: Safe and controlled interactions with other puppies to promote positive social behavior.

Manners: Training to prevent common issues such as jumping, biting, and chewing.

Confidence Building: Exercises to help puppies feel secure in different environments and situations.

Loose Leash Walking: Teaching puppies to walk calmly on a leash without pulling.

Goals:

Foundation Skills: Establishing basic obedience and good manners that will last a lifetime.

Social Skills: Encouraging positive interactions with other dogs and people.

Confidence and Adaptability: Helping puppies become well-adjusted to various environments and stimuli.

Owner Education: Providing owners with the knowledge and tools to continue training at home effectively, as well as the community for support.

Requirements:

Vaccinations: Up-to-date, age-appropriate vaccination records are required to ensure the health and safety of all puppies.

Age Limit: Open to puppies aged 8 weeks to 4 months at the start of the course.

Equipment: A well-fitted collar or harness, a standard leash (no retractable leashes), treats, and a treat pouch.

Tween Tails Academy

$150 for a 4-week in-person class with a full online class available.

Tween Tails Academy Class Description

Tween Tails Academy is specially designed for puppies aged 4 to 7 months. It focuses on transitioning from basic puppy training to more advanced skills and behaviors. This critical stage helps your puppy build on its foundation, developing into a well-mannered and confident young dog.

Class Structure:

Duration: Each session lasts 1 hour. - **

Schedule: Weekly classes are held on weekends and evenings for convenience. - **

Age Group: Puppies aged 4 to 7 months. - **

Class Size: Small group of 6 to ensure personalized attention.

Curriculum:

Obedience: Reinforcing basic commands and introducing more complex commands such as stay, heel, and wait.

Impulse Control: Teaching patience and self-control through exercises like sitting politely for greetings and waiting at doors.

Socialization: Continued positive interactions with other puppies and people to maintain and enhance social skills.

Leash Skills: Improve loose leash walking and introduce controlled walking in more distracting environments.

Problem-Solving: Addressing and preventing common adolescent behaviors such as nipping, chewing, and jumping.

Focus and Distraction: Training your puppy to stay focused and responsive in the presence of distractions.

Goals:

Strengthening Skills: Building on the foundation of basic obedience to achieve more reliable behavior.

Enhanced Social Skills: Ensuring your puppy remains well-socialized and comfortable in various situations.

Behavior Management: Providing strategies to manage and reduce typical adolescent behavioral issues.

Owner Education: Equipping owners with the tools and techniques to continue effective training at home.

Requirements:

Vaccinations: Up-to-date vaccination records are required to ensure the health and safety of all puppies.

Age Limit: Open to puppies aged 4 to 7 months at the start of the course.

Equipment: A well-fitted collar or harness, a standard leash (no retractable leashes), treats, a clicker, and a treat pouch.

Sport Puppy

$150 4 week in-person class with a full online class available.

Sport Puppy Class Description

This is a 4-week puppy foundation class for the puppy parent who wants to do more activities or sports with their dogs as an adult or finds joy in creative training. So you want to play agility, nose work, rally, freestyle, frisbee, trick dog titles, or more? This is a great place to start with your puppy. This class is about teaching the foundation skills you will benefit from when your puppy is all grown up and wants to do the fun stuff.

Puppies Learn:

How to learn through clicker training (shaping, capturing, luring behaviors)
Hind end awareness (for precision heeling, position changes, jumping foundation, 2 on 2 off skills, and more)
Flatwork for agility (sending around, running through jumps)
Confidence on unstable footing (wobble boards, pause table, tunnel)
Targeting (hand targets and sending targets)
Using toys as a reward
Mat work
Body awareness tricks like spin, rollover, and backup

This class is for puppies aged 4 to 8 months. Before taking it, puppies must have taken our Puppy Class.

Well-Behaved Basics

$150 for 4-week in-person class with a full online class available.

Well-Behaved Basics Class Description

Our Well-Behaved Basics class is designed for dogs aged 1 year and up, focusing on foundational training and behavior improvement. This class is perfect for dogs who need to reinforce their basic manners or learn new skills.

Class Structure:

Duration: Each session lasts 1 hour.

Schedule: Weekly classes are available on Monday evenings for convenience.

Age Group: Dogs aged 1 year and up.

Class Size: Small group of 6 to ensure personalized attention.

Curriculum:

Basic Obedience: Teaching or reinforcing essential commands such as sit, stay, come, down, and leave.

Impulse Control: Exercises to improve patience and self-control include waiting at doors and sitting politely for greetings.

Socialization: Positive interactions with other dogs and people to enhance social skills and reduce reactivity.

Leash Manners: Training dogs to walk calmly on a leash without pulling.

Behavioral Management: Addressing and preventing common issues such as jumping, barking, and chewing.

Focus and Distraction: Teaching dogs to remain attentive and responsive during distractions.

Goals:

Foundation Skills: Establishing or reinforcing basic obedience and good manners.

Improved Behavior: Reducing problem behaviors and promoting positive interactions.

Social Skills: Ensuring dogs are comfortable and well-behaved around other dogs and people.

Owner Education: Providing owners with the knowledge and techniques to continue effective training at home.

Requirements:

Vaccinations: Up-to-date vaccination records are required to ensure the health and safety of all dogs.

Age Limit: Open to dogs aged 1 year and up. - **

Equipment: A well-fitted collar or harness, a standard leash (no retractable leashes), treats, a treat pouch, and a clicker.

Beginner 2

$150 for 6-week in-person class with a full online class available.

Beginner 2 Class Description

This class is a 4-week lesson class with pre test and test, that builds on the foundation skills taught in beginner Obedience. We start by adding more duration to behaviors, adding distractions, and asking the dog to do more for the same amount of pay.

Students will have the opportunity to take the CLASS BA test at the end of this class.

Dogs Learn:

Offering attention and focus in more challenging environments
Sit and Down with increasing distractions
Sitting as a friendly stranger approaches
Impulse control and Leave It with very enticing bait items
Leash walking with more distracting environments
Sit at doors
Stay for longer durations and with more distractions
Come when called
Body handling from strangers (vet and groomer practice)

Intermediate Obedience

$150 for 6-week in-person class with a full online class available.

Intermediate Obedience Class Description

This is a 4-weeks of lessons, pre test & test advanced obedience class! It continues to build on the skills learned by refining them and taking them to the next level with more duration, distraction, and distance.

Students will have the opportunity to take the Canine Good Citizen and CLASS MA test at the end of this class.

Dogs Learn:

Politely greeting strangers
Allowing handling by a stranger
Calmly walking past another dog on a leash
Coming when called
Supervised separation
Working for longer periods with fewer rewards

Prerequisites:

Dogs must have successfully completed our Beginner Obedience class or have instructor approval from an equivalent class or private training package. Dogs should be comfortable in a group class setting with other dogs and people around–if you are unsure, please contact us, and we will help you decide if group class is right for your dog.

Advanced Obedience

$150 for 6-week class

Advanced Obedience Class Description

At CKK9, our Advanced Obedience program is based on The Association of Professional Dog Trainers’ Canine Life And Social Skills program (C.L.A.S.S.) PhD degree earned by passing level’s test.

This is a 6-week class. Dogs will learn all the skills required to pass the PhD level C.L.A.S.S. test.

Dogs Learn:

Loose leash, walk up to the door, sit and wait while owner opens it (while owner carries a box)
Loose leash walking through obstacles (while owner carries a box)
Back up away from the owner or while in the heel position
Stay while the owner walks away to place the box down

Prerequisite:

Dogs must have completed the MA CLASS level and passed the test
Come when called through a gauntlet of toys and food
Greet a friendly stranger and allow body handling
Offer attention after there is a knock at the door and a stranger enters
Settle on a mat while the owner sits at a table with a ‘friend’ and eats a snack
Demonstrates an ability to respond to ‘sit’ no matter what their owner looks like (through a door, or while the owner lays on the ground, or when the owner is standing on a chair, etc.)

Reactive Rehab: Building Confidence in K9s

Membership based in-person class with a full online class available.

Reactive Rehab: Building Confidence in K9s Class Description

Our Reactive Rehab class is designed to help your dog build confidence and improve behavior around other dogs and people. This class combines traditional behavior modification techniques with innovative activities like parkour and pattern games from Control Unleashed to create a comprehensive training experience.

Class Structure:

Duration: Each session lasts 1 hour.

Schedule: Weekly classes are held on Tuesday evenings and Thursday evenings.

Class Size: Small groups of 4 to ensure personalized attention.

Curriculum:

Behavior Modification: Utilizing positive reinforcement, desensitization, and counter-conditioning techniques to address reactivity.

Parkour for Confidence: Introducing your dog to safe, structured parkour activities to build physical and mental confidence through navigating obstacles.

Pattern Games from Control Unleashed: Using structured, repetitive games to help dogs focus, reduce stress, and build positive associations with triggers.

Socialization: Controlled interactions with other dogs and people to improve social skills in a safe environment.

Obedience Training: Reinforcing basic commands and improving focus and responsiveness.

Goals:

Confidence Building: Helping your dog feel more secure and less reactive around other dogs and people.

Behavior Management: Providing tools and strategies for owners to manage and reduce reactivity.

Social Skills: Encouraging positive interactions in a safe, controlled setting.

Owner Education: Teaching you how to understand and effectively respond to your dog's behavior.

Requirements:

Initial Assessment: A pre-class evaluation to understand your dog's specific needs.

Vaccinations: Up-to-date vaccination records are required.

Equipment: A well-fitted harness and a standard leash (no retractable leashes).

Private Lessons

$150 per hour

Private Lessons Class Description

We offer private lessons on a case-by-case basis, as most training needs can be effectively addressed through our group classes. Private lessons are ideal for dogs with specific issues or those needing individualized attention.

Drink With Your Dog

$150 4-week in-person class with a full online class available. Let’s turn your dog into the best coffee shop/brewery buddy!

A Great Brewery Dog Is . . .

Calm

A brewery is a great spot to have a chill hangout with friends, for people, and for dogs! A four-legged friend who can be calm and relaxed with you on the patio or in the taproom is the perfect addition to your brewery hangout. A brewery is NOT a dog park (in most cases), so if your dog wants to go at dog-park speed and enthusiasm levels in other public places, they might have a hard time in a brewery environment. Making sure that your dog is calm and relaxed at a brewery is a big part of keeping breweries dog-friendly!

Quiet

In addition to being calm, a great brewery dog is also quiet during their visit to a brewery. Dogs bark - that’s part of who they are! However, excessive barking or whining from a dog visitor can cause a disruption in a brewery, which impacts other human visitors, other dog visitors, and the brewery staff. If your dog barks a lot (whatever the reason: nervous, excited about other dogs, “demand barking” for attention, etc.), they aren’t quite ready for a long brewery visit. Try short trips first, setting your dog up for success with a long walk before and a delicious peanut butter kong to enjoy while you are there.

On a Leash

This may seem obvious, but it’s really important- something that more people overlook or disregard than you might think! Keeping your dog on a leash is not only essential for keeping them safe in a high-traffic area but also a key piece of demonstrating courtesy to other brewery guests and your brewery host. Even if you are in a county or city with no leash laws (these locations are few and far between these days), the brewery you visit is private property and will likely have its own rules about dogs being on leash. Following those rules is so important if dogs are going to stay welcome at breweries in your area. Off-leash dogs cause a lot of risks for a brewery and increase your liability as a dog owner. Even if your dog is reliable off-leash in general, when you are in a high-traffic area like a brewery, this is NOT the time or place to show off those skills.

People-and-Dog-Tolerant

When you take your dog with you to a brewery, it is almost inevitable that they will have some sort of interaction with another person or another dog. Your dog needs to be relatively tolerant of these types of interactions in order to be successful and safe in a brewery.

Your dog doesn’t have to be super outgoing or lovey-dovey with every person or dog you encounter. In fact, it’s actually a great brewery dog skill if your dog doesn’t really care one way or the other about the other dogs and people they encounter. But your dog does have to tolerate being in the same room with other people and dogs and be comfortable navigating situations where these two- and four-legged strangers end up in close proximity to you.

If your dog is really nervous around people or dogs, gets over-excited about potential new friends across the room, or has a history of growling/snapping/biting at other dogs or people, a brewery environment is not where we would start training! Enlist the help of a qualified training professional to help you create a behavior modification plan for your dog and start working in easier environments before visiting a brewery together.

A Great Brewery Dog Knows . . .

Settle Under the Table
Calm Greetings with Friendly Strangers
Polite Ordering Skills
Leash Walking - With Distractions and Through Tight Spaces
Leave It
Recover from a Startle

These are a few of the skills that make a dog a great brewery companion. Teaching our dogs how to be a good brewery dog is an essential piece of helping breweries stay dog-friendly and dog-safe.