🐾 City Paws - Group Classes
At City Paws Pet Club, we don’t just train dogs — we train the people who love them.
Our programs are designed to build confidence, create structure, and set dogs up for long-term success through a simple, step-by-step approach.
We use positive, easy-to-follow training methods that the whole family can understand and apply. You’ll be actively involved every step of the way, learning how to communicate clearly and work as a team with your dog. The result? Real behaviors that carry over into everyday life at home.
Our indoor training facility offers small group classes in agility, obedience, puppy training, and socialization — all led by some of the top trainers in Minneapolis.
Join a class today and start building a better relationship with your dog.
Upcoming Classes:
Puppy Level 1 – Starts Monday, May 4th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. at our Lyndale location.
Puppy Level 2 – Starts Saturday, May 2th, 2026 at 12:00 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.