PAWS Chicago Training Center

My dog and I recently completed the basic/beginner obedience class and has a fantastic experience. Mike was friendly, helpful, and you can tell he is genuinely committed to helping individuals with training their dog. As a first-time dog owner, this class was great with learning the do's and don'ts of training and I saw great improvement in my dog over the weeks. I'm excited to start intermediate training in January. Constructive feedback: the intro class (human's only) was somewhat unnecessary because most everything had already been sent in an email/was FAQ type of content. I think that time would have been better as an additional class with our dogs, as the hour always flew by. Secondly, it might be helpful for PAWS to put together a weekly recap, because sometimes it was a lot of learnings and homework to remember for home.

Mike, our trainer, was so upbeat and energetic! Our dog graduated from Obedience 1 with flying colors. We learned sit, down, stay, wait, leave it, come, go to your bed, and walking next to you. We are thrilled with how our dog has done and will be signing up for future classes. The space is very open and they have more than enough space and materials to keep the dogs focused. Highly recommend to anyone looking for obedience classes!

Was very much looking forward to taking our dog here, unfortunately something serious came up that sent me out of the city for two weeks causing me to miss the first two appointments. I called the office the day before the first day of class in hopes of just switching to another class schedule starting a few weeks later. No response. I tried again A couple days later and finally followed up with email several days after that. After a week+ I FINALLY got a response from Joan saying she had no flexibility, even though there were open spots in other classes. I wasn’t trying to cancel, or get my money back, all I wanted was to be able to get into a class that I could actually attend. I found the service to be rude, and very slow. To offer zero flexibility despite difficult circumstances is very difficult to understand.