All Day Dog Adventures

All Day Dog Adventures is a dog training school in Kalispell, Montana, serving Columbia Falls, Whitefish and the surrounding Flathead Valley. It offers group classes, puppy training, place and settle workshops, loose leash walking workshops, intensive recall and loose leash seminars, Trick Training 101, private training and behavior consultations. Training covers obedience, agility, service dog training, scent and search workshops, and pet therapy coursework. It holds a rating of 5.00 from the customers who have reviewed it.

The school describes its approach as force free and reward based, using positive reinforcement and switching between obedience work and agility or enrichment activities to keep dogs motivated. Its philosophy centers on training through enjoyment and on building a bond in which owner and dog work as a team. Mental enrichment is part of the program, including scent work. The main training facility sits in the Flathead Valley less than 15 miles from the Gateway to Glacier National Park, with a dedicated enclosed training field. Summer training grounds are in Columbia Falls, and in winter the school uses Deer Park Elementary School, located between Columbia Falls and Kalispell. Classes are held in Whitefish, Kalispell and Columbia Falls.

Behavior consultations address excessive barking, attention and focus, door manners, resource guarding, reactivity or aggression toward people or other dogs, fears and phobias, boundary training, counter surfing, house training and separation anxiety. A consultation runs up to two hours online, followed by a written training plan, with videos reviewed beforehand. The team includes Lead Trainer Austin Smith, who has been with the school since 2020 and leads the group classes, and Assistant Lead Trainer Brooke Krysiak, who joined in 2021. Trainers specialize in group classes, scent classes, private one-to-one training and behavior rehabilitation.

The business sits on 9th St W, about a third of a mile from Flathead High School and Ashley Creek, and roughly half a mile from Elrod School. Gallagher Park is about 0.4 miles away and Legends Stadium about 0.6 miles.

All Day Dog Adventures is a family run business based in Columbia Falls, and its 5.00 rating reflects the experience of the owners who have trained with it across the Flathead Valley.