Summit Dog Training

About 5-6 hours. The combined length of the video lessons is about 4 hours, and the remaining time is what we estimate it will take for the reading & survey sections.

This course will be self-study, utilizing a combination of video & text lectures. After enrolling in the course, you will have access to the course curriculum on a drip schedule - new content coming available every few days - until the completion of the course. You can ask questions and dialogue with other trainers in the DWYD Class Instructors Facebook group. You can work through the course at your own pace, and will have access to the course for 180 days after enrollment - but we encourage you to complete it sooner to earn your Certified DWYD Class Instructor status!

You certainly could! There's nothing stopping you from creating your own brewery manners course and putting it out there without using the Drink With Your Dog™ name. However, we hope you'll find value in joining the Drink With Your Dog™ Project in several ways. First, in light of recent regulatory shifts around the country regarding dogs in breweries, we hope that by uniting our brewery efforts, we can be a more effective and powerful voice for keeping dogs in breweries. Together, we are stronger than if we were each doing our own thing. Second, this course includes so much more than just teaching you how to teach certain skills to your dog training students. We also include discussions about managing client experience, marketing your classes, how to connect with breweries, a free presentation you can give to build interest in this type of class in your community, and more. Third, graduates of this course, as Certified DWYD Class Instructors, are able to conduct evaluations for the Drink With Your Dog™ Brewery Titles. These titles are a fun way to incentivize and reward your students for putting in the hard work with their dogs, and these title evaluations are another service you can market and monetize.

That's totally fine! We're not here to tell you exactly what you have to teach - but rather to provide you with a framework that has worked well for us so that you don't have to completely reinvent the wheel. If you come up with something that works better, we'd love to hear about it! In any good dog training class, the curriculum is always evolving to best meet the needs of the students, and our DWYD™ curriculum is no different.

Of course not! While we do utilize reward-based training as the foundation of our curriculum, we believe that there is room for trainers of all backgrounds as part of this project. The only restriction we place on training tool use pertains to the title evaluations.

Certified DWYD™ Class Instructors are licensed to use the DWYD™ curriculum and brand for one year. There is a small annual fee to stay certified after the first year.

Yes! Our course has been approved for 4 CEUs for CPDT. KPA will honor these CEUs as well.