How Our Classes Work

At the Zoom Room, we don’t train dogs. We train the people who love them. We’ve redefined dog training, with classes specially designed to build confidence and success as dogs master skills in a simple, step-by-step process.

We utilize only positive dog training methods, which your entire family can easily master and embrace. You will be actively engaged in your dog’s training, working as a team as you learn to communicate more effectively with your dog. So what you learn at the Zoom Room doesn’t have to stay at the Zoom Room. Behaviors will naturally transition to life at home with your dog.

Our indoor dog training gym offers small group classes in agility, obedience, puppy and socialization classes with the best dog trainers in Cary, NC. Private, one-on-one training scheduled to your convenience is also available.

Getting Started

Your dog training journey always begins with either an Orientation or an Evaluation.

• Orientation

  • Free, 30 min, attend without your dog, bring your vaccination records
  • You’ll learn how we do things, and how to load a clicker
  • For all puppies and those ready to enter Obedience 1
  • If you can’t attend a scheduled Orientation, please call us so we can accommodate you, even remotely

• Evaluation

  • $25, 30 min, attend with your dog, bring your vaccination records
  • Book an appointment to schedule a convenient time
  • Attend if you’re concerned your dog may be too reactive for group classes, if you’d like to place into more advanced coursework, or if you need help coming up with a training plan

Group Classes

• • Small class size for personalized attention
  • Flexible Schedule: Class packs can be used for any class, day or time
  • Advanced courses have prerequisites to enter
  • Levels Training: work at your own pace and graduate to the next level when you and your dog have mastered the skills
  • You can enroll in class at any time because everyone is working at different levels and advances at different paces from each other

Private Training

• Private dog training

  Scheduled at times convenient to you, this is ideal if:

  • You’d prefer one-on-one attention
  • Your schedule makes it difficult to attend group classes
  • Your dog is too reactive to participate in a group setting
  • You’d like to focus on a specific behavior issue
  • You wish to accelerate the learning of any behaviors

• Remote training

  Half-hour private sessions via live video chat are beneficial if:

  • You are unable to leave home due to illness or a shelter-in-place order
  • You have a new puppy and want some extra hand-holding at home
  • You'd like to include members of the household not able to attend classes, such as young children
  • Your dog is exhibiting problem behaviors that only appear at home
  • You are traveling out of town with your dog

Puppy Training

The Zoom Room wrote the book on puppy training. Literally. “Puppy Training in 7 Easy Steps: Everything You Need to Know to Raise the Perfect Dog” is the best-selling dog training book in America.

Luckily for you and your puppy, you live in Cary and can enjoy early socialization and puppy training classes right here at your local Zoom Room!

• Puppy Preschool

  With an emphasis on socialization including group play time for the puppies, this introduction to puppy obedience addresses common challenges with raising and training a puppy. (Ages 2-4 mo.)

• Puppy Training+

  Start smart with puppy manners: get your puppy’s attention, sit, down, stay and leash walking. Plus, enhance communication and build confidence with puppy agility, tricks, and Pup-lates^®. (Ages 4-8 mo.)

Obedience Training

Dog obedience training at Zoom Room Cary begins with basic manners. You’ll work as a team, using positive reinforcement to effectively communicate the desired behavior. Further classes incorporate distractions, off-leash work, and more advanced handling.

We use only positive reward based training methods as these are both the most effective as well as easy to master by every member of your family. We weave innovative games into the curriculum for maximum engagement.

• Obedience

  In Obedience, you and your dog will learn and practice basic manners and obedience skills. Trainers will coach you at your dog’s skill level with games and individual instruction in a group environment. Once you and your dog have demonstrated proficiency in the above skills, you will be approved to move into the Advanced Obedience class.

• Advanced Obedience

  Advanced Obedience builds upon the skills learned in Obedience. In Advanced Obedience, we help you transfer those basic manners skills to real world applications. Classes focus on fun ways to practice skills in new locations and learning how to generalize behaviors in preparation for the AKC’s Canine Good Citizen test. As you progress through Advanced Obedience, you may even find yourself working on additional skills to prepare you for Rally Obedience classes or Therapy Dog Workshops!

Enrichment Classes And Workshops

Every dog can enjoy dog agility training at the Zoom Room – any breed, size or age. Agility is an exhilarating dog sport that relies on close teamwork. You’ll be amazed at how it deepens the bonds of communication as you work your way through our obstacle course.

When you participate in dog agility training, you will experience immediate results not just on the course, but at home with a more relaxed, confident and well-behaved best friend. And if you get really hooked and proceed through the advanced levels, you can join our incredibly entertaining Agility League!

• Agility

  In Agility, you and your dog will be introduced to all of our beginning agility equipment. This class focuses on building your dog’s confidence on all obstacles and improving your handling skills. To move on to Advanced Agility, the dog should be able to work off leash through a short 6-obstacle course without any food lures.

• Advanced Agility

  In Advanced Agility, we take the foundation skills from Agility and add distance and height. We focus on improving handler skills so the dog can take the obstacles more independently. While Agility focuses a lot on the dog’s skills, Advanced Agility builds upon the handler’s skills to help build a stronger, smoother Human-Dog Team.