Looking for a dog trainer near you? We offer professional dog training classes in the Vista, California area designed to help dogs develop good manners, confidence, and focus so they can become welcome members of the family and the community. Our group dog training classes include Puppy Training (10–16 weeks), Basic Obedience, Intermediate Obedience, Therapy Dog preparation, Canine Good Citizen (CGC), and Tricks classes. Training in a group setting helps dogs build social skills, gain confidence, and stay focused around real-life distractions. Just as importantly, training strengthens the communication, trust, and bond between dogs and their owners. A well-trained dog is a happy dog, and a happy dog helps create a calmer, more joyful home.
Training & services
Training goals
Behavior consultation
Canine Good Citizen preparationProgram details
Preparation for the AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluation and certification. Serving dog owners in Vista, Shadowridge, Carlsbad, and surrounding North County San Diego communities. · Listed price: $240.00
Crate training
House training
Leash training
Obedience trainingProgram details
Foundational dog training that teaches sit, down, stay, wait, loose leash walking, and focus. (And so much more!) Serving dog owners in Vista, Shadowridge, Carlsbad, and surrounding North County San Diego communities. · Listed price: $240.00
Puppy trainingProgram details
Training puppies 10-16 weeks focusing on socialization, confidence building, and basic skills and manners. Preparing puppies for the AKC Puppy S.T.A.R. evaluation and certification. Serving dog owners in Vista, Shadowridge, Carlsbad, and surrounding North County San Diego communities. · Listed price: $240.00
Recall training
Socialization
Behavior support
Chewing
Counter surfing
Fear and confidence
Jumping up
Reactivity training
Resource guarding
How training happens
Group classesProgram details
Structured group classes help dogs learn to focus on their owners and help them gain good social skills around other dogs.
Owner coachingCustomer-reported
Private training
Dog age
Puppies
Senior dogs
Training level
Advanced trainingCustomer-reported
Beginner training
Class options
Drop-in classes
Assistance and working dogs
Therapy dog trainingProgram details
Training for dogs working toward therapy and dog certification and public manners. Serving dog owners in Vista, Shadowridge, Carlsbad, and surrounding North County San Diego communities. · Listed price: $240.00
Dog sports
Trick training
Your dog’s background
Rescue dogs
Other listed services
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Advance Dog Training
Barking
Barking dogs
Basic Commands
Behavior Assesment
Behavior Consultant
Biting
Canine Body Language
Canine Education
Canine Learning
Canine Workshops
Dog Behavior and Training
Dog Handling
Dog Parents
Dog Training Programs
Dog Tricks
Dog biting prevention
Dogs jumping
Down
Find it
Fur Baby
Group walk training
Hand signals for dogs
In class dog training
Leash control
Leave it
Lessons And Training
Lure & Reward Training
Mouthing
Muzzle training
Nail trimming
No JumpTraining
No barking
Pet First Aid
Polite Greeting
Problem Prevention
Proper dog training
Rattlesnake Avoidance Training
Security Dog
Sit
Skills classes
Speciality classes
Stay
Teaching your dog
Training equipment
Training help
Training my dog
Tricks trainingProgram details
Fun classes that teach dogs engaging tricks while building confidence and communication. · Listed price: $240.00
Unique Training
Verbal commands for dogs
Wait
Walk nicely on a leash
Weekly Classes
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5/5Our newest pack member, Ozzy, attended puppy class with Kate and her gals. The class is awesome for puppies. This class helps them to learn to play with other dogs in a safe space, helps the puppy and owner interact with other strangers, and it helped my 12-year-old on how to c…Read full reviewClose full review
Our newest pack member, Ozzy, attended puppy class with Kate and her gals. The class is awesome for puppies. This class helps them to learn to play with other dogs in a safe space, helps the puppy and owner interact with other strangers, and it helped my 12-year-old on how to communicate with our dog. The instructors are very knowledgeable and can help with different topics, and I love how chill they are in class.
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Carol Crisci
5/5
Puppy class was such fun and my very active pup learned to play nicely with other pups. We moved on to obedience and Kate and karen both were grate with my crazy pup. We are now looking forward to the canine good citizen class. This is our second dog trained by Kate. She is entertaining as well as great intuition on their behavior
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Kate Baker
5/5
Kate and Karin are amazing. My dog Jeff and I learned so much and he is a champ at behaving. They really made a difference in our obedience journey. We went from tears to cheers.
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shaun
5/5Kate and Karin are top notch, I absolutely recommend Kindred Spirits for your dog training needs.
We have done the puppy class which was so fun, rewarding and important for socializing our new puppy. This class created such a strong foundation of good behaviors both for our dog a…Read full reviewClose full review
Kate and Karin are top notch, I absolutely recommend Kindred Spirits for your dog training needs.
We have done the puppy class which was so fun, rewarding and important for socializing our new puppy. This class created such a strong foundation of good behaviors both for our dog and for our family and we are incredibly grateful for that experience.
We just wrapped up Basic Obedience class with Kate and that was an additional layer of training that was so needed as we hit those teenage dog behaviors.
It's great to have an expert to help you work through those behaviors that can make dog ownership challenging and Kate is a wealth of knowledge and knows how to connect with dogs (and people.) We appreciate the help and will be back for Intermediate and Canine Good Citizen classes!
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Jo Lee Ervin
5/5We LOVE KSCE Center! I've been taking my girl Hailee for almost a year now to classes. She started last year in the puppy class and I am so glad she was able to run and play and get socialized early. We decided to stick with it and went on through classes. We completed Puppy, Beg…Read full reviewClose full review
We LOVE KSCE Center! I've been taking my girl Hailee for almost a year now to classes. She started last year in the puppy class and I am so glad she was able to run and play and get socialized early. We decided to stick with it and went on through classes. We completed Puppy, Beginner, Intermediate. We decided to take Beginner and Intermediate classes several times since she was so young and entering her teenage phase. I got concerned that my girl was too "spazzy" but Kate assured me that Hailee is "highly intelligent and very enthusiastic" She is very patient the dogs love her! We are now about to take the challenge of the Good Canine Citizen class. I was unsure, so I am encouraged to take the course only expecting growth & improvement, not perfection. Here we go! Photos are Hailee today at 70lbs, and January 2024 as a tiny baby.
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