Welcome!

Sorry - Agility classes will not be held from July 2 through July 15 EXCEPT for Agility Open Runs on Sundays at 6:30 PM on July 5 and 12. Other classes will be held as scheduled.

    NEW CLASSES!

  • Rally Obedience, Sunday, July 12, 9 AM
  • Family Dog class, Thursday, July 2, 6 PM
  • Puppy Kindergarten, Sunday, July 26, 10:30 AM
  • Intro to Agility (adult dogs), Tuesday, July 21, 6:15 PM
  • Intro to Agility (puppies under 1 year), Tuesday, July 21, 7:30 PM

For details, please see our Class Schedule page

Mountain View Dog Training has helped hundreds of people train their dogs to be the wonderful companions that only dogs can be. Our classes are held in beautiful Rappahannock County, Virginia, and our approach is positive, supportive, and fun for both the canine and the human members of each team.

Dogs do occasionally take the time to smell the flowers.

Dogs do occasionally take the time to smell the flowers. This is Jig, a Border Collie at Mountain View Dog Training.

Our obedience training instructors have scores of years of experience training both dogs and humans, and continue their own education by attending other classes and seminars on operant conditioning (”clicker training”), behavioral issues, and problem solving, in addition to reading books and watching DVDs on these and other subjects. In this way we remain on the cutting edge of behavioral learning and training, and our doggy students reap the benefits from this.

We’re fortunate to live in an enlightened era vis a vis dog training - a happy farewell to the methods of years past, with force training, jerking and “correcting” dogs for not doing things for which they weren’t trained. The present focus on rewarding a dog for desirable behavior and ignoring incorrect responses (or “bad” behavior) is so much healthier for both our dogs and us!

At Mountain View we love agility. It’s more fun than a barrel of puppies! We’re also serious about agility competition (with quite a few grains of sensitivity and sensibility) and strive to teach our human students to respect their canine athlete partners, to give them tasks they can understand and achieve, and to have fun while playing the agility game. And that’s capital F-U-N for both dog and handler!