This opportunity is great if you are just starting training, looking to socialize, working on practicing commands in a distracting environment or if you’re unsure what level of training you and your dog are at. This is also a great chance to let your dog become comfortable working with you around the shelter before signing up for a more structured classes.
The pop-in classes are held at Friendship APL and led by certified dog trainer, Joe Rogers. These classes are held every Sunday from 11am to 12pm. The cost per pop-in class is $25.
NO SIGN UP IS REQUIRED
About the Trainer
At Rogers Dog Professionals, our training style is heavily focused in positive reinforcement and relationship-based training methods. And positive reinforcement & relationship-based training is so much more than just giving your dog treats & love! It’s an intentional decision to ensure that we have our dog’s trust & making proactive choices to set our dogs up to succeed in a world unnatural to them. It’s consciously deciding to approach our relationship & how we tackle challenges with patience & understanding.
First, we do our best to evaluate the individual needs of the dog & ensure those needs are being met. The welfare of our pets comes second only to safety. If we build meaningful relationships with ourJoe Rogerspets & provide them with the physical, mental, emotional, & social enrichment they need, we significantly reduce problem behaviors to begin with.
Our goal is to help our dogs learn to solve problems in positive ways. This type of training helps them build positive expectations when encountering novel people, things, or experiences. It creates positive associations with learning & training, & motivates the dogs to do more because they like it.
We focus our training on teaching dogs what we want, not what we don’t want. We set them up to succeed & then reinforce the behavior when they do them. When we encounter behaviors that are unsafe or unwanted, we manage them to ensure safety & then take steps to understand the function of the behavior & the circumstances that are eliciting the behavior. We work to teach them new ways of solving their problem while building new associations.
This type of training does require time & intention, but the benefits last a lifetime.
Friendship APL
We are a private, independent, non-profit humane society founded in Elyria, Ohio. We proudly own and operate the largest animal shelter in Lorain County.
