Clever Hound Dog Training is partnering with Godfrey’s Welcome to Dogdom to provide onsite six-week training sessions plus private training. Megan Esherick, CPDT-KA CDTI, is a certified professional dog trainer with many years of experience in a variety of dog sports. She recently founded The Clever Hound LLC after 17 years as a service dog trainer, and is also a certified trick dog instructor through Do More With Your Dog.

She uses a positive, reward-based training process that is based on the principles of clicker training, a method in which desirable behavior is marked with a soundmaker and then reinforced. Clever Dog is an obedience and life skills class for puppies 8 weeks and up or adult dogs. Basic obedience cues include sit, down, come and leash walking. Scent Work is for dogs 8 weeks and older and follows the AKC and CPE Scent Work protocols. No previous training is required.