Y2K9s

10/30/2026

We are offering a new class this session - Do As I Do. You can teach your dog to learn new behaviors by copying you or someone else. It's loads of fun!

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10/30/2026

📣📣FUN FOCUS AND FUNDAMENTALS 📣📣

Looking for a fun, no pressure class? You’ve been through manners and still want to have some fun with your dog, but are not interested in anything competitive at this point. Consider Fun, Focus and Fundamentals. Taught by Janie Harris, this class is geared towards the dog and handler teams who are interested in strengthening their foundations in a fun-filled atmosphere, Our goal is to deepen connection and communication skills in the handler/dog partnership, through a series of enjoyable learning games. Teams will address impulse control, stay skills, quick response, loose leash walking and recalls. Activities might include the Name Game, Find My Face, stationary puzzles, shaping games, the Vito bowl game, Hot Spot, Traffic Jam, and more.

10/27/2026

What's New at Y2K9s this session?

🐕A New Therapy Dog Prep Class
🐩A New Agility Foundations I
🐶 Do As I Do - Teaching Through Imitation
🐕 Control Unleashed with Leslie McDevitt
🐩 Drive and Indepence for Agility
🐶 A Short Positions Focused Rally Class
🐩 Fun Focus and Fundamentals

10/27/2026

Next session's registration is open for new classes and students returning to an existing class. Students new to an existing class can register on Friday, October 30th.

10/21/2026

We're excited to welcome instructor Lisa Serad to Y2K9s! Lisa will be teaching Therapy Dog Prep on Wednesday afternoons from 2:00pm-3:00pm in the next session of classes (beginning the week of November 9). Be on the lookout for registration details soon.

Lisa Serad, MS, C-AAIS, is the Program Manager of the Gerald B. Shreiber Pet Therapy Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), where she has overseen a program that brings the comfort and joy of therapy dogs to patients, families and staff for more than 12 years. Her responsibilities include recruiting, screening and training therapy dog teams; managing and coaching program volunteers; and promoting best practices in animal-assisted interventions.

Lisa has more than 30 years of experience as a pet therapy volunteer and professional dog trainer and has served as a CGC and Therapy Dog evaluator for over 20 years. A Certified Animal-Assisted Intervention Specialist, she brings extensive experience in canine behavior, therapy dog evaluation and preparing teams for successful visits in healthcare settings.

10/18/2026

Congratulations to Y2K9s instructor Donna Staivecki, who placed second in the Purina Pro Plan Incredible Dog Challenge National Finals and placed first in the Weave Pole Challenge with her remarkable Border Jack, Cinco. You can watch the Purina Pro Plan Incredible Dog Challenge National Finals on November 29th on NBC. Check out the video of the Eastern Regional Weave Pole Challenge where Cinco runs 48 weave poles to help get him to the Nationals! The link is in the comments.

09/14/2026

09/11/2026

SPOTS AVAILABLE IN THESE CLASSES

🐕Fun Focus & Fundamentals

🐶 Tricks

🐩Do As I Do - Teaching By Imitation

🦮 Intro to Nosework

🐺 Agility Foundations 2

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09/10/2026

📢 SPOTS AVAILABLE IN NEXT CLASS SESSION 📢

🐕Fun Focus & Fundamentals

🐶 Tricks

🐩Do As I Do - Teaching By Imitation

🦮 Intro to Nosework

🐺 Agility Foundations 2

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