Zen Dog Training

As a first time dog owner, I was anxious about where to start with training. When I heard about Zen Dog Training and saw they had a puppy class, I knew it was the right fit for my new puppy and me. Pete has been our instructor and he's been great! He's super patient with answering questions and gives helpful feedback when we show him what we've been practicing. I was definitely overwhelmed having a new puppy, but it was reassuring to know that each week if I worked on the homework with my puppy that we'd improve. My puppy benefited from being able to play with other puppies her age each week. I've also found having access to the Zen Dog Training Puppy Course resources online to be really helpful especially when I needed a reminder of what was covered in class (the videos, comics, and blog

I have never had a dog before so I knew that I would need help training and socializing our new Boston Terrier puppy. I am so happy that I found and joined the Ivy League Puppy classes at Zen Dog Training. The classes are great for puppy socialization. The puppies are around the same age so they can learn to play together, and Gordon is there to help translate body language and suggest ways to make sure everyone is having fun. This has been useful for puppy meetups outside of class too. My little guy is usually very distracted at class and does not "perform" our homework very well, but I find the real value of the tools that Gordon has given us is making our puppy have good manners at home. Gordon's tools and games for play biting, leash walking, and general commands have given us much be

This class was so helpful for puppy socialization and obedience training! Our puppy now does great interacting with people/other dogs and has gotten so many compliments at the vet for being calm and well-behaved because of Gordon's methods.

We had an awesome experience with Zen Dog (and Gordon, specifically). Gordon’s classes were a great balance of fun and learning - for pup and pawrents. We noticed our dog learning and growing week by week and loved showing off his new “tricks” in class. Our pup looked forward to it every week! We highly recommend Zen Dog, Gordon, and doing the homework each week (you won’t regret it)!

We were so thankful to find Zen dog as our dog is the first puppy I've ever gotten that young (and first dog in over a decade!). Their calm, confident leadership was reassuring and they did a great job of not only telling us what to do, but also in showing us how it worked and enabling us to work in practice. We made it past the intense puppy stage months ago and are really starting to settle in and cherish the time with our four legged family member. Highly recommend!