Originally posted by cali
obedience classes are only a wast of money if you already know how to properly train a dog lol, classes are not for the dog they are meant only to teach the owner how to communicate with the dog.
I agree for the most part. I already knew how to train a dog but I still took Kai and Kaedyn (and will take all my future dogs) to obedience classes. I take them for the socialization and having them around distractions. I could easily add my own distractions without obedience class but I'd rather take advantage of the fact that there are 5+ dogs around my own dog with other owners giving the same command. I'm sure there are other ways to add distractions but..hey, paying a small fee to have weekly controlled distractions work for me.