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Service Description Our Basic Skills class begins Saturday, July 11, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. and graduation will be held August 29, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Welcome to our Basic Skills class, designed to equip you with the tools to teach your dog essential commands for good behavior. Over the 8-week training period, you will learn to instruct your dog in commands such as sit, down, and stay, as well as important skills like heeling and coming when called. Enrollment includes a membership that provides access to advanced member training for the remainder of the year. Join us to enhance your relationship with your canine companion and ensure they exhibit exemplary behavior in various situations. Basic Skills Class includes: 8 weeks of basic skills Covering: Come when called, Heeling, Sit, Down, Stay, and more. Berks County Dog Training Club Membership for the balance of the year. If booking online, a service fee is added. Location: Liberty Fire Company 836 Ruth Street Sinking Spring

Therapy dogs are NOT service dogs. Service dogs are dogs who are specifically trained to perform a task or tasks to assist a person with a disability or impairment. A service dog must be with their person at all times and has special access privileges in public places. Therapy Dog is a program which recognizes the necessary therapy work performed by dogs through accepted organizations based on the number of visits. Therapy work involves volunteers who schedule visits to various facilities and locations such a nursing homes, classrooms, libraries, assisted living centers, hospices, funeral homes, schools, shelters even courtrooms. Whether they’re working with a child who is learning to read, visiting a patient in a hospital or a senior in assisted living, therapy dogs and their owners work together as a team to improve the lives of other people. A dog can provide a valuable sense of reassurance, joy, or calmness to people experiencing stressful, lonely or depressing situations or general times in their life. This class is an ongoing program offered at various times throughout the year. For more information about this program, please contact the club.

If your dog has received the AKC Canine Good Citizen (and perhaps also the AKC CGCA) title, you may have asked “What’s next?” One answer could be the AKC Beginner Novice obedience title. The Beginner Novice class is a great “next step” for CGC dogs since it works on advancing the skills your dog has already learned – Walking nicely on a leash, acting mannerly while being petted, performing a stay and coming when called. This is an ongoing class held every Thursday night of each month at 7:00, except on Member Match night. The prerequisite to joining this class is successfully completing a Basic Skills Class or testing into the class by a club instructor. You must also be a club member in good standing. Please contact the club if you are not sure you are eligible for this class.