Welcome to Canine Development Club (CDC), Thunder Bay's largest privately owned dog training facility. CDC offers the canine enthusiasts in the Thunder Bay community a warm friendly atmposphere in which to work all levels of dog activities. Canine Development was developed mainly for PET PEOPLE wanting guidance and assistance to have a well trained pet. Don't have a purebred dog? No problem, we welcome all breeds and mixes.

Our foundation & mandate is built on the Three Life Issues:

Come when Called
Stay with me (a loose lead walk)
Stay where I put you

We also teach all levels of Competitive Obedience, Rally and Beginners Rally. We have drop in Rally, Obedience and Show classes on Saturdays. Our staff of one dozen is made up of very seasoned, credible instructors.

All of our classes have two instructors, one head instructor & an assistant. We limit our classes to only 7 participants in each class. CDC will do privates for those needing 'special' assistance, and we sell blocks of mat time for the drop in Show, Rally & Obedience. Often 'keeners' will rent mat time during the day in order to 'sharpen' their skills. Rentals for meetings, matches & trials are also available.

Come in, have a cup of coffee, socialize, and do some 'canine shopping' ~ we offer a large range of obedience & show accessories.

*new ~ Watch CDC trainer Katie Jaremey run her Golden Retriever "Henley" through his first CKC Agility Trial.

Watch training director Carla K. work with her doberman Babe

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OUR TRAINING CENTRE

We pride ourselves with having 6,000 square feet of training area with two rings; one for trainers and the other in which all classes are held.

Ring #1 ~ Is where classes are held. This ring is 60´ wide x 40´ long. All of our classes have a maximum of 7 dogs per class with 2 instructors.

Ring #2 ~ Our trainers ring is 42´ x 42´.

Our facility is pristine clean. Each night mats are dry mopped, vacuumed and wet mopped with recommended cleaning solutions.

We have a large group of Agility students and we move from indoors, around May, to a 100 x 100 foot completely fenced in yard behind The Pet Shack on Squier Street. We have all the latest equipment & the yard is completely covered in clean shavings. Set up are two 10 x 20 canopies to keep out of the hot sun, running water and a fridge out back.

Evenings generally have a nice cool breeze coming off the lake and the dogs have plenty of shade under the canopies to keep cool, and having all the shavings makes for 'less bugs'. It's a very safe enviorment for the dogs. We move back inside by the end of September and continue on with classes indoors for the winter.

Our training centre also has a small retail section where training items are available (collars, leads, dumbbells, toys, bait). We have an office, and (coming soon) a registration area at the entrance. We also have a large kitchen area and "Kitchen Court" where students & friends can gather to eat, have a coffee and chat.

See a Panoramic view of the CDC Training Centre! Click the image below