Dog Training Prices in Glens Falls, NY
Dog training around Glens Falls comes as three main products — group courses at one end, multi-week residential behavior programs at the other, private lessons in the middle. The price table on this page is built from prices that trainers in this area published themselves, on their own websites. Nothing in it is a national average, and where a local price does not exist we say so rather than inventing one.
What Dog Training Costs in Glens Falls (2026)
In the Glens Falls area, a private lesson typically costs $108, a group class course $150, and board and train about $1,050 a week. These are not national estimates: we read the prices that 29 Glens Falls-area trainers publish on their own websites.
| Service | Typical price | Most trainers charge | Lowest to highest | Trainers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private lesson, one session | $108 | $90 to $175 | $50 to $400 | 20 |
| Group class, full course | $150 | $130 to $180 | $90 to $225 | 14 |
| Board and train, per week | $1,050 | $1,008 to $1,099 | $875 to $1,400 | 5 |
| First consultation, when charged | $100 | $75 to $175 | $50 to $175 | 7 |
The price range for each service
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Private lessons: $50 to $400 a session
20 trainers publish a single-session price, and the middle half charge $90 to $175. Session length explains much of the spread: of the 14 trainers who state a length, 10 run about an hour, 2 run 45 minutes or less, and 2 run longer than an hour. Worked out per hour, the typical rate among those trainers is about $102. Behavior cases such as reactivity or aggression usually cost more than basic manners, and in-home visits more than lessons at the trainer’s facility.
Group classes: $90 to $225 for a course
14 trainers publish a course price. Courses here run 4 to 8 weeks with one class a week, so the typical $150 course works out to roughly $25 a class. Club and nonprofit classes tend to sit at the low end; small-group and specialty courses at the high end.
Board and train: $875 to $1,400 a week
5 trainers publish a board-and-train price. Programs here run 2 to 4 weeks, and the published program totals range from $2,800 to $3,499. Ask what follow-up lessons are included, because that is where programs differ most.
Glens Falls compared with other areas
Typical prices in Glens Falls next to the typical price across the 116 US areas we have read so far.
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Published prices by trainer (29 trainers)
| Trainer | Private lesson | Group course | Board and train |
|---|---|---|---|
| 802 K9 Training | $195 | — | — |
| AHPDTC | — | $90 / 8 wk | — |
| Alpine Dog VT, Nancy Poitras | — | — | $1,400 / wk |
| Begging 4 Balance Dog Training and Rehabilitation | $250 | — | — |
| CloverField K9 | $90 | — | $1,050 / wk |
| Comfort Hill Kennel | $50 | $180 / 6 wk | — |
| Dog Days Farm | $90 | — | $1,008 / wk |
| Dog Lovers Training | $110 | $175 / 5 wk | — |
| Essex County Canine Westport NY | — | $95 / 8 wk | — |
| Every Day Canine LLC | $150 | — | — |
| Fetch the Leash! Dog Behavior & Training | $240 | — | — |
| Freedom K9 Services | $150 | — | — |
| Good Dog Training | — | $125 / 5 wk | — |
| Gulliver's Doggie Daycare | — | $165 / 6 wk | — |
| LOVETOWALKDOGSVT | $90 | — | — |
| Maple Leaf K9 | — | — | $875 / wk |
| My Canine Companion Training | $105 | $130 / 6 wk | — |
| PAWS Canine Enrichment Center | — | $150 / 4 wk | — |
| Pawsitive Habits | $60 | $150 / 6 wk | — |
| Pawsitive Touch Dog Training & Grooming | $80 | $185 / 6 wk | — |
| Petco Dog Training | — | $149 / 6 wk | — |
| playful pup dog training | $65 | — | — |
| Resolve Canine Training | $125 | — | — |
| Starvale Goldens | $75 | $145 / 6 wk | — |
| The Hyper Pup Dog Training | — | $225 / 6 wk | $1,099 / wk |
| Waggles LLC | $112 | $225 / 6 wk | — |
| Walk My Dog | $400 | — | — |
| Wanderlust Canine Services | $100 | — | — |
| WOOF PACK | $175 | — | — |
Each price is the trainer’s own published price as read in November 2026. Prices change; confirm with the trainer.
Statewide: what dog training costs across New York.
What follows is what those prices actually buy, what is not in them, and how to work out which line of the table your dog is on before you spend anything.
Group classes: what a course buys
The group figure in the table above is the price of a whole course, a block of weekly classes, so divide it by the number of weeks before comparing two courses of different lengths.
What that buys is a weekly session with an instructor, other dogs and other handlers in the room, and a structure that makes you practice between weeks. Per contact hour it is comfortably the cheapest professional training available, and for a stable household dog it is usually all that is needed. One local provider attaches two conditions and publishes both: sessions are limited and subject to change, and classes are for non-behavioral dogs, with consults handling anything deeper.
Two other providers are worth a separate call. The membership club in Queensbury runs a year-round weekly calendar covering obedience, rally, agility, scent work, conformation and AKC STAR Puppy, with a membership structure rather than a per-course fee; the education center in Fort Edward runs graded puppy, obedience, adventure and certification courses through an online registration system. Call both if you are price-shopping, because a club membership that gives you a year of weekly classes is a different value proposition from a six-week block and cannot be compared line for line.
In a region where winter evenings disappear to weather, ask about make-ups before you book.
Private lessons: one hour or a series
The table above shows the published range for one private session, and it is a wide one. Part of the reason is that some local private products are a single, self-contained lesson built around one problem. For a household whose only complaint is the walk, that single hour is sometimes the entire intervention, and it is priced accordingly.
Note what is bundled. Two local private products include equipment in the price, which makes the headline price look higher and the true cost lower than a comparison that ignores it.
For anything beyond one narrow problem, budget for a series. One local provider says plainly that a single session teaches a lot but that at least three are recommended, so multiply the session price by the number of lessons the trainer expects before you compare it with a course or a program.
Private work is the right purchase when the problem is specific, when the class schedule is impossible, or when several people in the household need to learn the same handling.
Residential programs: basic and behavior tiers
This is the biggest cheque in the local market and the one with the clearest published structure. The table above gives board and train as a price per week, so multiply by the length of the program to get a total; local programs run for several weeks. One local provider publishes two tiers. Its basic program is scoped for dogs over six months with no aggression, anxiety or fear, and it installs a named list — sit and stay, heel, down and stay, place, recall, crate, waiting for food, waiting at thresholds — plus jumping, mouthing and counter-surfing. Included in the price: a mini educator e-collar, a thirty-minute drop-off consultation, two go-home sessions of ninety minutes, a written action plan, and one hour of private time banked for use at any point in the future.
The behavior tier is the product for leash reactivity, aggression toward humans, aggression with dogs, separation anxiety, fear issues, property destruction, incessant barking, house soiling and obsessive behaviors. It contains everything in the basic program plus the behavior modification, and its go-home sessions run ninety minutes to two hours.
Three other local businesses run residential programs with their own shapes: a kennel-free program on a 132-acre farm in Salem, a boutique Queensbury operation that works with only a few dogs at a time and includes ongoing trainer access afterwards, and the Fort Edward education center where board and train sits inside a wider school. Get any quote in writing, with the number of weeks stated, so that it can be set against the weekly prices in the table.
What nobody quotes you
Equipment. A crate, a thirty-foot long line, a flat harness that actually fits, a slip or training lead and a month of high-value food rewards add up to a real cost on top of the training. Some of it is bundled into local programs and some of it is not.
Fuel and time. This is the cost people ignore and it is the largest hidden number in the outer towns. A six-week course from Granville or Chestertown is twelve trips and roughly two hundred and fifty miles. From Warrensburg it is about half that. From downtown Glens Falls it is trivial. Before you choose the cheapest course, price the drive, and price the evenings.
Cancellation and no-show terms. In a region where a winter evening can be canceled by weather — one venue cancels whenever the Queensbury schools close — ask whose risk that is.
Veterinary work. For any sudden change in behavior, particularly in a dog over five, a veterinary examination is part of the cost of solving it, and pain is a far commoner contributor to irritability than owners expect.
Daycare and camp, which are not training but sit in the same budget line and are often the thing people are really comparing. They are not substitutes for training and they are frequently what a household actually needs alongside it.
Working out which line you are on
Start with the dog rather than the budget. A stable dog with ordinary gaps in its manners is on the group line. A dog with one specific problem, the walk being the usual one, is on the private line. A dog with aggression, fear, separation anxiety or serious reactivity is on neither: two local providers do not take those dogs into a group class, so that dog needs a behavior consult or the behavior tier of a residential program.
Then apply the geography test. Under twenty minutes from Queensbury or Fort Edward, everything on the list is genuinely available to you. Over half an hour, the class option is nominally available and practically fragile, and the money is usually better spent on fewer, longer, at-home sessions from one of the two providers who travel.
Finally, the most important comparison on this page is between a group course and a residential program. Put those two rows of the table side by side. For a stable dog and an owner with free evenings, the course does the job at a small fraction of the price. Nothing else in this market has that kind of leverage.
Questions that change the quote
Is equipment included? Two published local products include a collar. A quote that does not will cost more than it looks once the collar is bought separately.
How many sessions are really needed? A recommendation of several sessions is more honest than a quote for one. Ask for the expected number, not the hourly rate.
What is the handover? For residential programs, ask how many go-home sessions, how long, whether the whole household is expected, and whether anything is banked for later. The published local model — a drop-off consultation, two go-home sessions and a written plan, plus one future private hour — is a good benchmark to measure other quotes against.
What happens if it does not work? We found no published refund policy in this market and one business states that all services are final sale, so ask what happens instead: a further session, a reassessment, a referral. The answer tells you how the business thinks about its own outcomes.
Is there a travel charge? Two providers here travel to clients, and a travel rate is not stated on either website. From the outer towns this can be a significant line.
And what is the follow-up worth? One local operation includes what it calls lifetime support — continued access to the trainer after the program ends. That is not nothing, and when you are comparing two residential quotes that are close together it may be the whole difference.
Reviewed Dog Trainers in Glens Falls
These reviewed Glens Falls-area trainers from our directory can walk you through pricing for their programs. Each links to a full profile with specialties, certified credentials, reviews, and contact info:
- Begging 4 Balance Dog Training and Rehabilitation — 5.0★ (13 reviews)
- PAWS Canine Enrichment Center — 4.9★ (15 reviews)
- Petco Dog Training — 3.5★ (2 reviews)
- The Hyper Pup Dog Training — 5.0★ (113 reviews)
- K9 Evolution — 5.0★ (22 reviews)
- Dog Days Farm — 5.0★ (7 reviews)
- Glens Falls Kennel Club — 4.8★ (15 reviews)
- Bellyrubs Doggie Daycare II — 4.6★ (53 reviews)
- Dog Logic — 4.2★ (39 reviews)
- Tails Wag Inn — 3.9★ (70 reviews)
See all Glens Falls dog trainers →
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do some Glens Falls trainers not publish prices?
Some quote after an assessment, which is defensible for behavior work where the length of the job genuinely depends on the dog, and some run on a membership rather than a per-course model, which is how the Queensbury club works. The price table at the top of this page is built from the trainers who do publish. For the others, price comparison takes phone calls. When you make them, ask for the total for the expected number of sessions rather than the hourly rate, and ask what equipment is included.
Is board and train worth so much more than a class?
It depends what you are short of. The price table at the top of this page shows how far apart a group course and a residential program are. If you have the evenings, the course is far better value and gives your dog something residential cannot — other dogs in the room. If you genuinely do not, the residential is not extravagance. For a behavior case the comparison does not arise, because two local providers will not take those dogs into a group class at all.
Are there cheaper options than a class?
Not professionally, and be careful what you substitute: daycare and camp sit in the same budget line but are not training. Below a group course, the honest answer is a book, a long line and twenty minutes a day, which works better than people expect for a straightforward dog.
What is not included in the price I am quoted?
Usually equipment, food during a residential stay, vaccinations, travel for in-home visits, and the drive. The drive is the big one in this metro: a six-week course from Granville or Chestertown is twelve trips and roughly two hundred and fifty miles.
Does any local trainer offer payment plans or a guarantee?
We found no published payment plan or refund policy among the Glens Falls trainers in this guide, and one states explicitly that all services and programs are final sale. What one local operation does publish is what it calls a lifetime support guarantee — continued access to the trainer for advice after the program ends — and another includes a future private hour in the price of its residential program, to be used whenever it is needed. Those are the closest things to a guarantee in this market, and they are worth asking about by name when comparing quotes.
Related: read our complete dog training prices guide or the full Glens Falls dog training overview.
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