Courses and Clinics Offered

Classes Available

Puppy Kindergarten: $90/6 weeks. For puppies 8 weeks to 5 months. Introduces basic commands with emphasis on communication and socialization. Other topics include crate and house training, and other puppy issues.

Basic Obedience: $90/6 weeks. Introduces basic commands and provides for socialization.

Clicker Training For Beginers: $90/6 weeks. Introduces dog and handler to clicker training and allows time for socialization for dogs over 6 months old.

"The Right Dog For Me": (handler-only) $45. Assists prospective owners in choosing the right dog for their home, family and life-style and discusses all aspects of responsible dog ownership.

Housebreaking 101: (handler only) $55. Assists dog owners struggling to conquer housebreaking. One time session

Intro. To Search and Rescue: (handler only) $45. Prepares handler for the complex task of choosing, owning and training a Search and Rescue Dog.

Intro. To Pet Therapy: (handler only) $45. Perpares prospective handlers for providing pet assisted therapy at local health care facilities and with local educational programs.

Canine Good Citizen Prep Course: This 4 week course assists owners and dogs in preparing for the AKC CGC evaluation. $60 http://www.akc.org

Social Hours: each session offered 2x per week. $10/hour or $40/5 hours.
Grumpy Growlers: for dogs with social issues
Happy Hounds: for dogs needing only social experience.

Private session training is also available for $50/session or $135 sessions. Milage will be added to private sessions fees at distances greater than 15 miles from Tomorrow's Hope. Some exceptions will apply. I apologize for these price increase but they are necessary to compensate for rising fuel costs.

There is a one time evaluation fee for all participants. Those completing a training agreement are eligilbe for a partial refund of this fee.

(All dogs are required to be in a vaccination program and must be in good health. Females in season will not be allowed to participate. Aggressive or overly fearful/shy dogs may be ask to participate in private session training before attending a group course.)

As of May 1, 2008 all payments for classes are do in full on the first day of class. A $20 non-refundable deposit for first time clients of group sessions will be required to hold your place in the next available class. This deposit will be applied to cost of class.

If you do not attend the first class in which you have reserved a place, you will not be permitted to complete to class and your deposit will be forfeited. If you reserve a place in the next class, an additional $20 deposit will be required. Failure to attend the first night of this second class will be an automatic discharge from my services.

Some price changes have also been made:

All introductory group class have been reduced from $120 to $90. I will no longer accept payment plans for first time clients. I reserve the right to decline payment options for other clients.

Private sessions and consultations fees have increased from $45 to $55 dollars and mileage will be applied to all private sessions more than 10 miles outside of the downtown Portsmouth area unless sessions are scheduled on days that I am visiting the area.

A $10 fee will be charged for missed private sessions or evaluations that fail to cancel before the appointment time. Failure to pay the fee or more than two non-cancelled, missed appointments will be an automatic discharge from my services.

Participation is essential to keep all group classes in session. Reserving a place in class and not showing up hurts the entire class as socialization is a part of group class and it is not financially responsible for me to offer group classes to one or two participants. Because many choose to reserve classroom space and then do not attend classes I have been forced to make the above changes.

The first night of classes are important for introductions, paper work, setting in of all the dogs. I often have staff available to help make the first night of classes go as smoothly as possible. When you do not attend this class and come to class the next week this must all be repeated. These delays are not fair to other participants who attended the first week. Clients that attend the fist night of class also help to keep costs down by not having to schedule assistants on multiple days.

We will be training more outdoors in the Spring and Summer. Check with your vet about flee and tick control. Also remember that it is the law to have your dogs licensed by the county in which you live. You can be sited for failure to purchase this license even if your dog is on leash in a public area. If you do not have your dogs license and your dog escapes from you, you can also be charged for a dog at large. County dog license also provide useful information in helping lost dogs find their way back home. Check with your local auditors office to purchase these tags.