Our training facility is located at 5222 34th Street, Lubbock, Texas. This is one block west of Slide Road on 34th street.

Our distraction-free facility is fully air conditioned, heated, and accessible to handicapped individuals. The flooring of our 2000 sq. ft. training area is matted to avoid injury or strain on our dogs and guests. In addition to our spacious training area, we have a large meeting room, offices, and a full line of low cost quality training equipment.

All of our classes are taught by volunteer members who are experienced problem solvers and have successfully trained a wide variety of dogs to obedience titles. In addition to actively competing on the regional and national level, many have trained nationally ranked obedience dogs and compete in other AKC events such as herding, field, tracking, agility, lure coursing, earthdog tests, and conformation.

S.P.O.T.C. offers a wide variety of year round classes to suit your training needs. Listed below are the classes we offer.

PUPPY KINDERGARTEN: For puppies age 8 weeks to 4 months of age. Features house training, puppy care, socialization, sit, down, stay, come, polite leash walking, confidence building, deterrents for barking and chewing and much, much more!

HOUSEHOLD MANNERS: For puppies over 5 months of age and adult dogs. (No dog is too old to learn manners!) Features sit, down, stand, stay, come, polite leash walking, socialization, and confidence building. Also problem solving techniques and much, much more.

CANINE GOOD CITIZEN CLASS: This class is for those who would like to earn an AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) title on their dogs. This class will teach the exhibitors to train their dogs to pass the 10 individual tests for this title. The test will be given at the end of the course.

The class is designed for those owners interested in continuing to work with their dogs past the household class as well as those interested in doing Therapy Dog work.

ADVANCED CLASSES: Training for preparation for AKC obedience and agility trials. Classes are offered for all levels of competition.

Classes are held once a week for 7 weeks. Each class is 1 hour long.

Sign ups for classes are held at our training facility at 7:00pm on the dates indicated below:

--Sign up dates of January 5th and January 8th for classes starting the week of January 19th.

--Sign up dates of March 22nd and March 25th for classes starting the week of April 5th.

--Sign up dates of May 24th and May 27th for classes starting the week of June 7th.

--Sign up dates of July 26th and 29th for classes starting the week of August 9th.