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| - After seeing some good reviews online, we decided to sign up for AZ Dog Sports' puppy obedience class with our then 4-month old Corgi. We purchased their Bronze plan which included 6 consecutive weeks of classes. We chose this place in hopes it would be better than what PetSmart or something would offer, but in hindsight, we probably should have just gone there! The class setup was odd as it's not necessarily a structured 6-week course, but 6 weeks of classes on a rolling basis. So, new puppies can join the class and older puppies can leave the class anytime throughout those 6 weeks, making the classes very repetitive, and for our pup, pretty boring. However the thing that bugged me most about the classes, was that if our pup was acting up (she's pretty vocal and gets a little jealous when other pups were doing the activities and it wasn't her turn just yet) the instructor would not help at all. No guidance on how to get her to quiet or calm down. If we weren't going to get some sort of guidance on those things, then why were we there? During our very last class one of the team members at the front desk noticed we were really struggling and let us know after class that this probably wasn't the best fit for our Corgi, offered to credit us a class and suggested a different puppy class which had two sessions both at times that normal working people could not attend. It was a nice gesture, but I would say 5 out of the 6 classes left us feeling frustrated.
We also had some issues with scheduling. The calendar probably has 6 or 7 different sessions of the class and there were only two sessions we could attend (again outside of normal working hours). Our preferable session got cancelled 5 out of the 6 times we attended class, forcing us to attend the other session (This often happened last minute, or the team would sign us up for sessions without us knowing leaving lots of confusion). I understand the need to cancel a session if only one pup is signed up, but some heads up on this kind of thing would have been appreciated before we paid for the classes.
Overall, AZ Dog Sports may be a good fit for some puppies, but I really wish we would have put our money towards something more beneficial for our pup.
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