After successfully completing a beginner's session you are welcome to continue your doggie education. Enhance what you have learned in beginners, and for those interested, help is available to prepare you to show your dog and earn obedience or agility titles.
     Member training is generally less structured than our basic skills class, and classes are on a "come when you can" basis. At this time, obedience member training is held on Thursday evenings. Our club members have worked with and titled a tremendous variety of dog breeds, and their collective experience is one of the most valuable assets of the Berks County Dog Training Club.

   If you have had basic obedience training and would like to apply for membership to the club, the cost is $90 to join. You have the opportunity to attend our basic skills class, but you may be evaluated by one of our instructors to bypass the class. Click here for the form.

FOR MEMBERS:

General rules for Sinking Spring Fire Company outdoor training (spring and summer): Be prepared to clean up after your own dog. Dogs should remain on leash during training times. Dogs may be off leash while performing an exercise. Parking on grass along trees. No parking on macadam lot. No dogs beyond tree lines especially on the playground!
     Training time 6 p.m. until dark. Feel free to use gates, jumps, but please help put them away at the end of the night.

General rules for 4-H Center (fall and winter): Please do not allow your dog on the grass along the side or front of the building.  Come prepared to clean up after your dog.  Plastic bags or bread wrappers make handy cleanup tools. Dogs must be leashed while in the parking lot and as you enter the building. Training time is 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (New for 2010)

Click here for the monthly Member Match's rules (This is in PDF format, if you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here to download the free software that will allow you to see the file.)

Monthly Member Match results

Have a new puppy or just adopt a new dog?
Existing club members who are up-to-date on dues may attend the basics skills class for $50. A form still must be filled out.

Club bylaws