At City Paws Pet Club, we don’t train dogs, we train the people who love them.
We’ve redefined dog training, with classes specially designed to build confidence and set dogs up for success as they master skills through a simple, step-by-step process.
We utilize only positive training methods that your entire family can easily learn and embrace. You will be actively engaged in your dog’s training, working as a team while learning to communicate more effectively. What you learn at City Paws doesn’t have to stay at City Paws — behaviors will naturally transition to life at home with your dog.
Our indoor dog training gym offers small group classes in agility, obedience, puppy training, and socialization, led by some of the best dog trainers in Minneapolis, MN.
Sign up for a group class today!
Upcoming class:
Puppy Level 2 – Starting Monday, March 9th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. at our Lyndale location.
OUR CLASSES
Puppy 1
This 6-week introductory group class focuses on socialization and is designed to familiarize your puppy with basic behaviors and cues including: Potty training, crate training, puppy handling, appropriate puppy play, reward markers, dogs role in the family and enrichment, name game, sit, stand, down, come, loose leash walking & behavior substitutes.
Puppy 2
This 6-week group class expands on puppy basic behaviors and introduces the concept of establishing behaviors as routine. This course will build on the foundation of Puppy 1 and focus on real life skills including: a recap everything learned in puppy 1, develop further with sit/down/stand/come/loose leash walking, pre-sit/stay, touch/target, games, tricks and more!
Adult 1
This group (dogs over 8 months old) will focus on making those foundational behaviors stronger to build a well-mannered and polite dog. This includes: Reward markers, dogs role in the family and enrichment, name game, sit, stay, down, stand, come, loose leash walking, leave it, behavior substitutes and more!
Adult 2
This 6-week group class (over 8 months old) greatly advances previously learned behaviors and teaches more challenging and complex cues. Each student will work at their own pace to prepare them for extensive challenges. Things we will work on in this class include: response to cues from previous classes in different scenarios (duration, distance, distraction), touch/target, advanced stay, advanced loose leash walking, advanced leave it, spot, behavior substitutes and more!
Canine Good Citizen (CGC)
The CGC class prepares dogs for extremely challenging day-to-day interactions that requires your pup to be calm and well-mannered. Things we will work on in this class include: Accepting a friendly stranger, sitting politely for petting, appearance and grooming acceptance, walking on a loose leash, walking through a crowd, performing sit, down, and stay on command, coming when called, reacting appropriately to walking by another dog and person, reacting appropriately to distractions & calmly enduring supervised separation from the owner. **All CGC class participants must complete a puppy or adult class prior to signing up for CGC classes.