Why Choose Dog Agility Training?

Dog agility training at Atlanta Dog Trainer is designed to stimulate your dog both physically and mentally. This engaging sport builds confidence, relieves stress, and provides essential exercise for dogs of all breeds and energy levels. Our agility training classes are held at our spacious outdoor facility in Alpharetta, GA, featuring a safe and fun environment for your dog to thrive.

Key Benefits of Agility Training:

Confidence-Building: Encourages problem-solving and improves focus.
Energy Release: Perfect for high-energy dogs or working breeds.
Convenient Location: 12900 Freemanville Rd, Alpharetta, GA 30004

Dog Agility Training Day One At Atlanta Dog Trainer

Trainers On The Agility Course with Dogs

Basic Agility

Schedule and Costs

Each 5-week course costs $210, with one-hour sessions held weekly on the same day and time. Dates may vary due to weather or holidays.

What to Expect in Basic Agility

In the Basic Agility course, your dog will learn foundational skills to build confidence and enjoy the agility experience. Here’s what you can expect:

Obstacle Introduction: Your dog will learn how to navigate agility obstacles such as tunnels, jumps, and ramps.
Safe and Gradual Progression: Puppies and dogs will progress at their own pace to ensure a fun, stress-free experience.
Obstacle Sequences: By the end of the course, most dogs will begin running short obstacle sequences and may complete the full course.
Parachute Line for Puppies: Puppies will graduate to a very thin parachute line as they build confidence and balance.
Optional Higher Obstacles: Some puppies may advance to higher obstacles from the adult course, depending on their progress.
Basic Obedience Tips: Your instructor will introduce simple exercises to practice between classes, ensuring better focus and control.

The course emphasizes creating a safe, positive, and engaging environment where both dogs and owners can learn together. No prior obedience training is required to join.

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Intermediate Agility

Schedule and Costs

Each 5-week course costs $210, with one-hour sessions held weekly on the same day and time. Dates may vary due to weather or holidays.

What to Expect in Intermediate Agility

Our intermediate dog agility training class will teach your dog how to listen to you when they are in high drive. When your dog is excited and running, you must have command and control over them to ensure safety and success.

In this level, your dog will run the full agility course off-leash with increased speed, accuracy, and confidence. The course layout will change regularly, introducing crisscross patterns that challenge your dog’s problem-solving abilities. By the end of the 5 weeks, dogs will:

Learn all obstacles by name and sight
Run the course in reverse for added challenge
Begin hand signals and learn to “push” toward obstacles
Master weave poles, a core agility skill

Intermediate agility is perfect for owners looking to improve their dog’s focus, responsiveness, and speed while having fun in a stimulating environment.

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Advanced Agility

Schedule and Costs

Each 5-week course costs $210, with one-hour sessions held weekly on the same day and time. Dates may vary due to weather or holidays.

What to Expect in Advanced Agility

The advanced canine agility training course is the beginning of training for competition. This level introduces:

More obstacles, including additional jumps, tight turns, and weave poles.
Dynamic course changes in direction and layout, teaching your dog to rely on your lead.
Speed and accuracy, where you and your dog work together to run the course efficiently and flawlessly.

Advanced agility builds on intermediate skills, refining your dog’s focus, precision, and performance in preparation for competitive agility events.

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Private Agility Training Sessions

If you prefer personalized coaching tailored to your dog’s unique needs, our private agility sessions are ideal for achieving focused results.

One-hour session: $125
Three sessions: $365

Work directly with our experienced trainers to refine your dog’s agility skills and confidence.

Agility Training Tips

Cavaletti Work for Balance and Awareness

The training “Cavaletti Work” originated from the equine world where trainers work young horses over low poles to teach the horses to balance themselves and look ahead. Agility trainers have borrowed this training method since it also provides great agility ground work training.

Rear-End Awareness with Ladder Training

Use a simple ladder and lay it down flat on the ground. Lure the puppy with a treat over the rungs. This exercise will make him more conscious of his rear end and how to use it efficiently. Building rear end awareness will pay off in your future agility training and will help with teaching the puppy’s jumping and confidence building on and over obstacles.

What Dog Owners Are Saying

A Success Story with Maxx the Corgi

Hear how Atlanta Dog Trainer’s agility classes improved Maxx’s confidence, excitement, and bond with his owner.

“We signed up our Pembroke Welsh Corgi puppy, Maxx, for the Atlanta Dog Trainer Beginner Agility class in late 2018. That very positive experience led to signing him up for the Intermediate Agility class in early 2019 and as of my writing this, we now eagerly await the offering of the Advanced Agility class. Our little guy was already fearless and pretty confident, but these two classes, under the excellent tutelage of Diane Culpepper, put him over the top in both categories.
Diane adroitly handled the different personalities of each dog and handler in class, providing tailored instructions to both. The net result of this was maximum fun and sense of accomplishment for everyone. Nothing seem to faze her – not even Maxx’s antics , whom I nominated as the “class clown”. His anticipation and excitement level would always start building the moment we rolled into the parking lot and increase to a crescendo by the time we entered the agility area. The main issue we had in class, because of his uber high excitement level, was getting Maxx to be patient while he was waiting his turn. Ironically, Dianne demonstrated a lot of patience herself with thisJ We covered all 9 apparatus and she would constantly mix the course up to keep things interesting. The high level of physical and mental activity expended in class always resulted in Maxx crashing on the ride home – usually before we even left the parking lot.
Whether you’re considering doing agility competition, or just want to have fun and better bond with your canine friend, you can’t go wrong with taking an Atlanta Dog Trainer agility class or two with Diane Culpepper. She creates a fun, welcome atmosphere, has the patience of Job, and is a pleasure to talk with not only about all things canine, but just about anything else.”