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Canine Craze Performance Center

Urbandale, Iowa

4.7/5· 88 Google reviews

About Canine Craze Performance Center

Canine Craze Performance Center, founded in 2001 in Urbandale, IA, is your premier destination for expert dog training in the Des Moines area. We specialize in private training, dog daycare, obedience, therapy, and service dog training plus recreational classes and in-home training. Our experienced team is dedicated to fostering strong, positive relationships between dogs and their owners. Discover a wide range of customized programs and additional services designed to unleash your dog's full potential at Canine Craze!

Training & services

Training goals

  • Behavior consultation
  • Crate training
  • House training
  • Leash training
  • Obedience training
  • Puppy training

Behavior support

  • Cooperative care
  • Fear and confidence
  • Reactivity training

How training happens

  • Group classes
  • In-home training
  • Private training

Dog age

  • Puppies
  • Senior dogs

Support between sessions

  • Personalized training plans

Assistance and working dogs

  • Service dog training
  • Therapy dog training

Dog sports

  • Agility
  • Trick training

Your dog’s background

  • Rescue dogs

Training approach

  • Clicker training

Additional services

  • Boarding
  • Daycare
  • Dog walking

Other listed services

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  • Canine Fitness Trainer
  • Canine Health
  • Classes Dog
  • Dog Handler
  • Dog Home
  • Dog Trainer Near Me
  • Essential Training
  • Fear Free Trainer
  • Fear Free Training
  • Free Training
  • Group Coaching
  • Individualized Training
  • Maintenance Training
  • Medical Care
  • Nutrition Therapy
  • Personalized Training
  • Play Group
  • Private School
  • Train & Play
  • Training Sessions
  • Training Support
  • Training Your Dog
  • Veterinary Visits
  • Work Training

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Customer reviews

Google listing
4.7
out of 588 Google reviews

Mentioned in reviews

  • Learning 8
  • Knowledgeable staff 5
  • Confident 4
  • Golden retriever 4
  • Skills 4
  • Caring staff 3
All 10 topics
  • Confidence building 2
  • Explanation 2
  • Homework 2
  • Training style 2

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88 collected reviews

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Lacey Moore
5/5

Staff and trainers are very helpful, knowledgeable and pleasant to work with.

Joshua Kaiser
1/5
Have been going there for over a year. My dog never learned anything new except when she was with the trainer Ryan. He seems to have a good head on his shoulders when it comes to training. The rest of them are dog trainers in training it seems like. Instead of bringing up iss…Read full reviewClose full review

Have been going there for over a year. My dog never learned anything new except when she was with the trainer Ryan. He seems to have a good head on his shoulders when it comes to training. The rest of them are dog trainers in training it seems like. Instead of bringing up issues that my dog began to have, they just learned to deal with the problem vs correcting the behavior. This happened for 8 months that my dog began to get an attitude. Well the first time we find out about it is when they tell us she is being dropped from the program. They say she has an attitude problem and we need to pay for private sessions which cost more. They were also very secretive about how much time our dog was in the kennel. They would tell us she did great after this afternoon. Come to find out my dog was being left in the Kennel for over half the day and sometimes more. My dogs behavior was also different after she stopped working with Ryan. She didn't seem like she wanted to go to Canine Craze and would always look sad when leaving. When my girlfriend and I were told that we were being dropped and needed to pay for private lessons. I contacted Canine Craze and they informed me they didn't know the trainers were not correcting the problems that dogs had. They said they were going to ask the owner to work with us on a deal since they have been making our dogs problems worse instead of better. It's now 2 weeks later and no one has contacted us. We have also seen a great improvement in our dogs behavior since she left.

Brittany Mineroff
5/5
Over the last 4 months, we have taken our alaskan malamute puppy here for puppy gym class, puppy adolescents class, and will be starting obedience 1 in a couple weeks. The classes are great! All positive reinforcement with clicker training. We learn new things every time and our …Read full reviewClose full review

Over the last 4 months, we have taken our alaskan malamute puppy here for puppy gym class, puppy adolescents class, and will be starting obedience 1 in a couple weeks. The classes are great! All positive reinforcement with clicker training. We learn new things every time and our puppy has fun too. Michelle is a great instructor and very knowledgeable on the current happenings with dog training! We have also had some one-on-one training sessions with Clint to treat our pup's separation anxiety and we wouldn't think to go anywhere else in the future!

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