Living with Dogs is located in Santa Cruz County, California and offers a variety of group companion dog obedience and dog sport training classes. Our goal is to help you create a successful relationship with your dog by building trust and mutual understanding. We believe in and use family-friendly, humane training methods that enable effective communication between people and dogs.

We teach our classes using scientifically proven motivation and reinforcement based training methods. We do not use or tolerate physical punishment-based methods, or outdated styles of training often escalate aggression.

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Driving Directions

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Join us at our beautiful Aptos training center with your dog. This location is perfect for dog sports and our family manners class and has plenty of grassy space and parking. From Highway 1 take the State Park Dr. exit. At the second stoplight on State Park Drive turn south on Soquel Drive. After the second stoplight on Soquel Drive, go over the Aptos Creek Bridge.

Dog & Puppy Training Classes

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Submit your dog's proof of vaccines from your vet & giardia test for puppies when you enroll. Schedule Family Dog or Puppy classes online for your dog's level at least 12 hours in advance. Flexible scheduling gives you control your own schedule. You can choose from any of the locations, any of the times and any of the topics that we offer classes on our Class Calendar.

Basic Behaviors Video

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These are the key foundation behaviors that will help your dog learn to look at you and focus in distracting settings. The better your dog is able to pay attention around unfamiliar people, places, pets, and distractions, the better success you'll have in the real world. There's no "Easy Button" for learning attention, practice and repetition every day gives the best results.

Puppy Classes

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Train your puppy around new environments, places, objects, dogs and people, a critical part of learning & maintaining social skills for dogs of all ages. Living with Dogs trainers focus on using reinforcement and motivation for good behavior; and management, interruption and time outs for undesirable behavior.

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