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Small Dog Saturday Social

Little Dogs deserve a little something special. DogEvolve offers you and your small dog a safe, supervised hour of playtime every Saturday in North Beach.

Please join us. No sign-up necessary. Just stop by Jeffery’s Natural Pet Food Store any Saturday @ 10:15am.

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San Francisco’s premier reward-based dog training

All DogEvolve classes are lead by certified professional pet dog trainers. Throughout the course your instructors will be guiding you towards a better understanding of why and how dogs think, behave and make choices.

While training your dog, we also show you how to:

1) Show your dog how to do things you like. If dog doesn’t know how to sit, how can she choose to sit?

2) Reward the behaviors you like, so that your dogs will do them more often and in the right contexts (commands).

3) Punish unwanted behaviors without using harmful tools like chokes, shocks, prongs, “alpha-rolls” or other outdated unscientific techniques.

What does ‘reward-based’ mean?

Its simple. It means we give rewards (R+) to make behaviors increase in frequency (dogs sit when they want something) & we take away rewards (P-) when dogs do things we don’t like. Don’t be fooled by the the negative sign in (P-). It doesn’t mean bad/yucky. Scientifically speaking a (-) means SUBTRACT as in take-away. And Punishment is not a dirty word. Scientifically speaking a Punishment is anything that makes behaviors go down in frequency. Read more