Canine Training Institute - Humane Society SCM

08/07/2025

We would love to see you and your dogs at the Mutt Market on Saturday. The CTI trainers will be there with some fun dog competitions.

The Mutt Market is just 2 days away!! 🐾🥳 We want to see you all there; bring your family, friends, and your dogs! 🐶 We have free kids' crafts, drinks from Biggby Coffee Columbia Ave- Battle Creek, food from Fox's Pizza Den, music, dog demonstrations with Pampered Paws Canine Adventure and Canine Training Institute - Humane Society SCM, and amazing vendors ready to meet you! We hope to see you this Saturday, August 9th! ❤😃

06/22/2025

Walter is a Humane Society alum showing how puppy pushups are done! You go Walter!

06/22/2025

Puppy push-up on the bean!

10/28/2024

Dog and Puppy Manners and Socialization Classes

Classes for this six-week session run November 9-December 14.

Our classes meet for 45 minutes on Saturday mornings at Pet Supplies Plus. To sign up go to https://hsscm.org/?page_id=245. We also have a limited number of classes available on weekdays that can be scheduled as needed.

Our goals are to strengthen bonds between dogs and people through communication and cooperation. All of our methods are positive and force-free. We teach good manners: polite greetings, walking on a leash without pulling, coming when called, impulse control, and a variety of obedience cues.

Courses are $65 for a six week session. All proceeds from CTI are donated back to the Humane Society of South Central MI to support the animals at the shelter.

Our trainers are Certified Professional Dog Trainers-Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA) through the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT). Between our 3 trainers, we have over 50 years of experience training and working with dogs and horses.

Join us on a journey to a better behaved dog and a closer companion.

08/05/2024

Kaciana and Gita had a great time in class today! Gita conquered some of her remaining fears and went through our little orange tunnel. Hooray for Gita and her people.

07/30/2024

Here is CTI client Wrigley demonstrating his skills with the tunnel and balance ball. He was a fun and fearless puppy!

07/12/2024

Look at these good dogs learning new thing with CPDT-KA trainer Bille! Now picture your dog learning new things! Group classes and one-on-one sessions are available!

06/20/2024

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Do you want to support the homeless pets at the Humane Society? Our Strut for the Strays pays for heartworm preventative for the pets during their stay at our shelter. Heartworm is a devastating disease, spread by mosquitoes. Walk or run in our 5K Strut for the Strays event on July 20. We need more participants! Click here to register: https://runsignup.com/Race/MI/BattleCreek/StrutfortheStrays

04/27/2023

Heartworm prevention awareness month is almost over, but heartworm prevention awareness is so important every month! Make sure you are always staying up to date on the information surrounding heartworm in pets, knowledge is power! Make sure to check out the American Heartworm Society and all of their amazing information on the matter! Keep your animals safe and healthy on heartworm prevention year-round! ❤💪

04/13/2023

Good morning, everyone! ☀️ Just so you know the Whisker Mixer Bid for Barks event here at HSSCM is coming up in Friday, May 19th, 2023, from 6pm-8pm. It will be hosted here at the shelter (2500 Watkins Rd) and we would love to see everyone there! We will have a silent auction, catered food (from Barista Blues,) DJ playing music, wine and coffee pull, a photobooth, and drinks! You can get tickets here: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E353783&id=6
Hope to see you all there! 😄

04/12/2023

Upcoming class dates for CTI session #3 (six-week session):
- May 20th, 2023
- May 27th, 2023
- June 3rd, 2023
- June 17th, 2023
- June 24th, 2023
- July 1st, 2023
You can find this on our website here:

The Canine Training Institute is a program of the Humane Society of South Central Michigan. Positive-only dog training!

04/04/2023

Our latest training video is now up on YouTube!

This lesson includes how to use a positive approach with training, the use of treats and rewards, how to teach your dog its name, how to use marker words, an...