Behavior & Training
Now Accepting Applications for New Sessions!! Training will occur for 6 weeks on either Wed or Thurs evenings* from 6-7pm. Dates TBD.
*Please indicate your preferred day of the week when completing application.
Basic Obedience for Beginners - Wednesdays & Thursdays
Instructor: Courtney Claunch CPAT-KA
Cost: $165
Length: 6 classes one hour in length each.
Class size: Up to 6 dogs.
Date/Time: TBD
About the Instructor:
Courtney Claunch, CPAT-KA, Instructor
Courtney is a former zookeeper, with over 14 years of professional animal care and behavior & training experience. She began dog training at the East Bay SPCA, working with dogs undergoing behavior modification. Courtney developed an after-school program coaching local teenagers to train shelter dogs waiting for adoption. She also teamed up with her adopted pitbull mix Pongo, who became a school-visiting therapy dog. Beyond dogs, Courtney has worked at several AZA accredited zoos and aquariums, including most recently at Buttonwood Park Zoo and Roger Williams Park Zoo, and utilized the same voluntary positive reinforcement training with a variety of species- sharks, macaws, deer, foxes, monitor lizards, & vultures, just to name a few! She is a Certified Professional Animal Trainer (CPAT-KA) and enjoys providing compassionate, accessible, science-based dog training with the RISPCA. Courtney lives with Sunspots, a young Australian Shepherd mix, and her snake Maki Roll.
