Dog Training Classes
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Group Training Classes
Your pet(s) will work in small groups to learn new behaviors, correct old habits and prepare for new situations. Group classes are offered in a 3-week series or single sessions.
Our group behavior and training series are 3 weeks long and allow you to create, observe and sustain positive behaviors in your pet.
Our single-session classes aim to work on improving specific behaviors and getting your pet ready and trained to excel in scenarios that are common issues for them.
Upcoming Dog Training Classes
AWA has affordable dog training classes that have helped thousands of pets and their owners in South Jersey and beyond correct the most common behavior challenges they face.
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July Training Classes
Puppy 101
$109
Do you want to be able to go out to eat or drink with your dog? This class will focus on teaching your dog how to behave when out to eat.
- 3 1-hour classes
- Each Sunday, August 3rd-17th
Puppy 102
$109
This follow-up class to Puppy 101 builds on foundational skills to continue your puppy's progress toward their behavioral goals.
- 3 1-hour classes
- Sundays, August 3rd-17th
Puppy 101
$109
Do you want to be able to go out to eat or drink with your dog? This class will focus on teaching your dog how to behave when out to eat.
- 3 1-hour classes
- Each Tuesday, August 5th-19th
Well Mannered Dog
$109
Do you have a dog that needs basic training? Is the only thing he knows sit? The well-mannered dog is the class for you. We will cover, sit, down, stay, focus, recall, walking, and more.
- 1-hour class
- Each Tuesday, August 5th-19th
Meet the Instructors
Elizabeth Stanley-Reicherter CBCC-Ka, CPDT-Ka, SBA – AWA Manager of Behavior Support and Training
Liz is a certified behavior consultant canine (CBCC- KA). She is one of only 402 in the world. Liz is also a certified professional dog trainer (CPDT-KA) and canine good citizen evaluator with a degree in Anthropology from New York University. She specializes in finding solutions for behavioral challenged dogs, cats and small animals. Liz designs and implements effective behavior modification plans to achieve behaviorally health animals within the shelter environment. Ensuring the animals at AWA stay mentally and physically healthy is critical to AWA’s work. To this Liz also teaches community workshops and public dog training classes.
The topics covered in AWA’s community workshops are diverse: Listening to Your Dog for Girl Scout to Zoom sessions at Medford Leas about Clicker Training Cats to Proper Leash Walking and At Home Enrichment Toys 101 for the public. The love of teaching others has helped Liz in her designing AWA’s staff and volunteer training program as well as in developing a future dog trainer mentoring program for college students.
Before joining AWA in 2015 Liz was an independent dog trainer focusing on problem behavior solving at the Dog Lady Dog Training. She also volunteered and assisted with behavior modification at an open-admission high volume animal shelter on Long Island, NY. With a strong focus on behavior and behavior modification she was able to increase the number of animal lives saved and lower animal relinquishments to that animal shelter.
Liz loves learning. Her goal is to eventually secure the title of “Behaviorist,” a title reserved for only a few hundred trainers in the US.
When away from AWA Liz enjoys time on her farm with her son, husband and a house and barn yard of animals.
If you have any questions about the class please feel free to contact the AWA behavior team at Behavior@awanj.org
Abby Pukenas - AWA Behavior Assistant
Hi! My name is Abby and I am the Behavior Assistant here at the Animal Welfare Association.
I’m a lover of all animals! I have been working primarily with dogs in a professional training setting for over 4 years and I am currently studying at CATCH Trainers Academy to further my education.
I am always curious and eager to learn everything I can about animals to help better understand them. Learning about and helping animals is my passion!