We train the dog for you! American Dog Obedience Center is the premier dog training experience. You’re just 3 weeks away from behaviors most families can only dream about – and a happier dog. Beyond the results of our dog training programs are enhanced relationships between people and their dogs.

THE FAMILY DILEMMA

Most families, who certainly would cherish the companionship of a well-behaved dog, simply do not have the reserves of time or patience required to teach skills and behavior to a dog. You love your dog but his/her behavior causes you to feel stressed or angry, causing conflict. We understand! Although we love training dogs, we work for people. Dogs are, indeed, canines; but we feel that dogs are part of their human families - not the other way around.

THE DOG TRAINING REMEDY IS RIGHT HERE – WE TRAIN YOUR DOG FOR YOU

Your dog stays at our custom boarding school  – indoors, in a spacious kennel (no, not in a crate) – as s/he learns and plays in a large scenic outdoor dog training area. Each dog receives results-based skills and behavior training with Kris & Dennis Butler. Family participation is required for a “changeover” session that lasts 2 – 3 hours, and then your dog returns home. Award-winning dog training enhances companionship between dogs and their busy humans. Each dog is part of a unique family. Our dog training programs focus on your family’s needs.

WE TAKE OUR TIME – AND DO IT RIGHT

When your dog is a minimum of 5 months old, we will consider a structured boarding school program. A basic course lasts 3 weeks and will include:

  • Walking-on-leash manners
  • Sit – sit when greeting you (rather than your dog jumping on you), sit beside you at doors or gates until you give permission to come in or go out
  • Stay
  • Come (off leash!!)
  • Magic Carpet – staying on a rug that we furnish and you take back home with you. There are about a thousand troublesome things a trained dog can NOT do if s/he is staying on a magic carpet. For example, s/he can not jump on your company, beg at the table, get on the furniture, run through the house, dart out the door, or interfere with children as they play on the floor, if s/he is staying on a designated rug.
  • Manners – not jumping on you, not chewing on you.
  • Although we do not claim to be able to address every scenario, we can prepare families to require appropriate behaviors surrounding at-home issues. Feel free to discuss your concerns and needs with us. If we don’t feel we can address a dog’s behavior or meet your expectations, we will be honest with you.

FEES AND ENROLLMENT As of May, 2013, the cost of a 3-week boarding school program is $1400, which includes pretty much everything except food and any unexpected veterinary or care expenses, for which you are responsible. A TriTronics or Dogtra ecollar, your dog’s magic carpet, and OK sales tax on products are included in this price. A $45 per day charge is assessed for dogs left here past 3 weeks.

We offer a $100 discount on board and train programs to active military personnel as a gesture of appreciation for your service.

Click here for PAYMENT information and a printer-friendly list of items you’ll need to bring to boarding school.

RESULTS-BASED DOG TRAINING for busy Oklahoma families! We want you to understand how your dogs’ behaviors might best be enhanced (if the behavior is desirable) or replaced or eliminated (if the behavior is NOT desirable). It is reasonable for you to expect us to help you gain a thorough understanding of the methods and tools used to train your dog at American Dog Obedience Center. But beyond methodology, you deserve dog training results.

Results-based training means we expect your dog to DO what you ask. Methods and behavioral principles provide a valuable foundation; but the ultimate test of a dog trainer’s success is results – not theories. You’ll experience a happy, relaxed dog who is not experiencing physical force, choking or loud voices. Neither will you be required to resort to useless bribery, although we do reward appropriate behaviors generously. Dog training at American Dog Obedience Center is balanced & humane, calming and, best of all, it is effective.

No dog is too old to learn, although habits and conditioning become harder to change as a dog grows older. Every dog requires understanding, patience and persistence on the human family’s part. Even our wonderful program does not send home a “computerized” dog. A key element in the connection between people and their dogs is an effective way for busy families to require appropriate canine behaviors at home in the midst of the distractions and chaos we humans call “life.” Not only do we train dogs, but we also provide their human families with the tools you’ll need to achieve success at home. Your dog will enjoy more freedom because you enjoy more control – on and off leash.

We also offer optional (additional) Board and Train programs which introduce dogs and their handlers to AGILITY.

A full-time licensed dog kennel facility hosts our dog and puppy boarding school “students” and offers boarding services limited to former clients. Spacious indoor kennels and scenic outdoor work area are located on ten country acres in (east) Norman City Limits. Being just 8 miles south of I-40, off Choctaw Road (aka NE 120th in Norman), grants easy access to Norman, Oklahoma City and Tulsa families with dog training needs, and to those coming from out of state. Owners’ private home is on premises. Visits by appointment.

 

American Dog Obedience Center, Kris and Dennis Butler, hold a current unrestricted business kennel license issued by the City of Norman, Oklahoma. (License #1395)

One of our spacious training areas in our quiet country setting.