Pup Class is run by a small team of dog owners and animal behavior enthusiasts who decided to do something most training brands don't: actually test everything on our own dogs first.
Our team includes everyday pet owners, amateur researchers, and professional scientists who share one conviction — that the best dog training advice should be grounded in published behavior science, not tradition, marketing, or guesswork.
The Science Behind It
Every method, exercise, and recommendation on this site traces back to peer-reviewed research in animal behavior and learning theory. We don't publish a claim we can't cite.
Our courses and articles are reviewed by practicing veterinarians, so the science we cite is real, interpreted correctly, and not oversimplified beyond recognition. The courses and articles on this site currently reference over 47 peer-reviewed studies spanning journals like PLOS ONE, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Scientific Reports, and Journal of Veterinary Behavior. Dog training advice on the internet has a long history of misrepresenting the underlying research; we take that problem seriously.
Clinical Oversight
Meet the veterinarians behind the science
Every method we teach is reviewed by licensed veterinarians — not influencers. Two working DVMs who compete, breed, and treat dogs for a living keep our science honest.
2Licensed Veterinarians
47+Peer-Reviewed Studies Cited
100%Reward-Based Methods
Inga Alaburdaite, DVM
Veterinary Advisor
DVM · 2004
Internal Medicine
Reproduction
LSAVA
EVSSAR
Dr. Alaburdaite graduated from the Lithuanian Veterinary Academy in 2004, specializing in internal veterinary medicine and reproduction. She is a member of the Lithuanian Small Animal Veterinary Association and the European Veterinary Society for Small Animal Reproduction.
She has also spent years training her own dogs for agility competition. That kind of hands-on experience with dog behavior isn't something you get from a textbook.
Three-time FCI Agility World Championship competitor
Sarlota Cerniauskaite, DVM
Veterinary Advisor
DVM · 2024
Internal Medicine
Dermatology
LSAVA
Dr. Cerniauskaite graduated from the Lithuanian Veterinary Academy in 2024, specializing in internal medicine and dermatology. She is a member of the Lithuanian Small Animal Veterinary Association.
She has competed in the show ring since she was fifteen and brings a deep, working understanding of breed behavior to everything we publish.
American Staffordshire & Pomeranian breeder, 10+ years
How Our Courses Are Built
We try things. On our own dogs. With methods that have published evidence behind them. When something works consistently — not anecdotally, but across different dogs, breeds, and problem behaviors in our team — we build a structured course around it.
That means everything you find here has been:
Tested by real dog owners in real homes, not curated from success stories
Vetted against the research literature by our veterinary advisors
Refined by failure — if a method didn't hold up, it didn't make it into a course
What We Are Not
We are not a celebrity trainer brand. There is no guru, no signature method named after a person, no proprietary philosophy. We don't use shock collars, prong collars, or dominance-based techniques — not because they're controversial, but because the research on aversive methods is clear: they increase stress hormones, suppress behavior without building understanding, and raise the risk of aggression — conclusions drawn consistently across dozens of studies, including Cooper et al. (2014), Ziv (2017), Casey et al. (2021), Vieira de Castro et al. (2020), and China, Mills & Cooper (2020), among others.
We are a team that got frustrated with the gap between what behavioral science actually shows and what gets sold to dog owners. So we closed it ourselves.
Questions about our methods or citations? Use the contact page — we read every message.
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