About Dogtreff New York Obedience Training

DogTreff New York describes itself as a dog training center and sets out its range on the first line of its home page: "Dog Training, Fitness, Sport competitions, Scent work, Obedience, Protection". It sits on Guymard Turnpike in Cuddebackville, in the Neversink valley at the western end of Orange County, and it carries a competitive protection-sport program.

What you can book

The published services are family-friendly pet training, canine conditioning, private lessons, and advanced Schutzhund training for sport and working teams. Alongside those the site carries a Character Development program with its own Character Assessment Test, a Service Dogs section, and a separate breeding program with stud service. The framing throughout is that the owner trains too: programs "allow dogs and their owners to grow and train together", whether the goal is a competitive title, working performance, or a well-mannered family dog.

Who runs it

The training director is Wilhelm Lipp, and the site publishes his record in detail. He is a German Shepherd Dog Club of America trial and conformation judge, a character test evaluator and a former GSDCA breed warden, and has been a certified breed warden with the SV in Germany since 2005, active with that body since 1990 as a breeder, handler and competitor. From 1995 he worked as a protection dog trainer and training supervisor, and he is a certified GSDCA teaching helper. The site says he has personally trained and handled more than twenty dogs at the German Sieger Show, individually trained and titled over thirty-five German Shepherds to Schutzhund levels 1, 2 and 3, and overseen the training and competition of more than 150 dogs as a training supervisor.

Who it suits

The mission statement makes a point of access: the center says it welcomes individuals and families of all ages and abilities, including people with disabilities, and aims to make the sport and training experience workable for them. That is worth knowing, because a sport club can otherwise look closed to a pet owner. The business is rated 4.2 from 11 Google reviews. If what you want is a weekly group manners class at a set price, ask whether one is available; if you want sport, scent work, or a handler education that goes deeper than a six-week course, it is the one in the county that publishes the credentials to back it.