Our 8 week classes start you and your dog on the way to a lifetime partnership.  Most classes meet for 1 hour each week during the 8 week sessions. New sessions starting all the time, year round.

Let's start with the Basics:

• Basic Puppy Head Start (for puppies 6 months or less)
• Basic Manners/Obedience (for dogs from 6 months to 15 years)

After completing one of the Basics, let's Focus:

• Focus on Tricks
• Focus on Therapy Dog

Now you're focused, let's get serious:

• Rally Obedience

  • Rally Obedience Beginners

  • Rally Obedience Intermediate

  • Rally Obedience Advanced Competition

• Canine Good Citizen Class
• Fun with Tricks 2 Class
• Show Handling
• Agility
  • 1st Class : Fundamentals Agility
  • 2nd Class : Beginners Agility 1
• 3rd Class : Beginners Agility 2
• 4th Class : Beginners Agility 3
• 5th Class : Intermediate Agility
• 6th Class : Advanced/Competition Agility
• Private Lessons: Affordable one on one training, available in groups of 4 lessons to help you get that team going!
• Click Here to sign up for a Class or Club Membership with our online Class Registration

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The purpose of the "Swimming Paws" Swim Center is to provide a state of the art year round swimming facility for our dogs. The pool is 25' x 15', it is solar heated (with back up heat when there is no sun). The decking and stairs are safe slip proof materials. "Swimming Paws" provides scheduled evaluation of your dog's water abilities, swimming lessons if needed, and swim time.

Click here to learn about the "Swimming Paws" Swim Center at the Academy!

In the Beginning...

Don Brown is the founder of The Academy of Dog Training and Agility. With more than 25 years of experience training, showing and breeding dogs, he is well versed in the necessary components for dogs to be positive members of their communities. Don started out in confirmation, owner handling his English Pointers to their championships.
     Don has trained in obedience with Susan Strickland, Carolyn Price, West Chester Obedience Club and with Pam Helmer of the Talbot Kennel Club. He has taught for the West Chester Obedience Club and the Wilmington Kennel Club. He has put obedience titles on two of his standard poodles. He trains in agility with Linda Snyer of the Talbot Kennel Club. At the present time he is running "Ross", standard poodle, in agility.
     It was while training at Talbot Kennel Club that Don became familiar with the clicker training positive method. We emphasize the word "positive". It makes training fun for you and your dog.
The following are the dogs and the titles Don put on them:

• Harmonie Buster Blanc Chein  -  CD
• CH Trelarken’s ‘Bout Time  -  CD
• CH Wedgewood Yankee Traveler
• CH Worthalls Worth The Chance
• CH Wedgewood Worth A Million
• CH Trelarken’s Time For Liberty

For 2024

In the beginning...

Stop by the Academy and sit down with Carrie for a fireside chat about you and your dog!

Click Here to see some of the action from our Christmas Party and a glimpse of our wonderful Facility.