About All The Dogs Grooming & Training

All The Dogs Grooming & Training sits on Dysartsville Road in Morganton, down a driveway next to the sign rather than at the house, with a salon and an outdoor training area on the same site. It is a grooming business that also runs a full training program, and the training side is substantial enough to stand on its own: a published class schedule, a published price list and a credentialed instructor. Its stated catchment is Burke and McDowell counties.

What you can book here

Group classes are the core. Five-week courses at $175 cover Star Puppy for dogs under a year and Adult Manners for dogs over a year, both basic obedience and manners classes with a confidence-building activity at the end of each session, plus LifeSkills 101, an intermediate class working focus, distraction, greetings and leash skills. Six-week courses at $190 cover Canine Good Citizen preparation with the test in week six, and LifeSkills 102, an advanced manners class focused on recall, off-leash skills, place work and heeling, finishing with a group walk on the greenway. A CGC Community/Urban class at $200 runs in a different location each week – Freedom Park, downtown, dog-friendly stores and breweries – and requires the standard CGC first.

Agility and private options

Four agility classes run as a progression: Introduction to Agility, Agility Foundations, Intermediate Agility, and an open-enrollment Skills & Drills class that takes drop-ins. Private training is $50 for thirty minutes or $115 an hour, in the owner's home or at the salon, with a $25-plus travel fee beyond five miles. Any class can be converted to a private class – five-week at $275, six-week at $325 – and a Create Your Own Class option at $350 builds a five-week curriculum around whatever the owner wants to work on.

Two things worth knowing

Group classes are not open to dogs that are aggressive toward people or other dogs, so a reactive or aggressive dog needs the private route here. And a separate $50 counterconditioning and desensitization program exists specifically for dogs that are fearful about having their nails done – a narrow problem, but a common one, and rarely priced anywhere.

The instructor

The About page is written in the first person by Jen, who came into the industry through grooming, describes finding a training internship and mentors, and lists CPDT-KA, AKC Evaluator and Fear Free certifications alongside a yearly Pet First Aid and CPR class. Her husband Rick is described as owner, bather and training assistant.