09/28/2026
Wednesday Trainer Nights are coming back. 🐕🦺
Starting October 7th at 7 PM, we’re opening up The Dog Standard again for trainers, handlers, kennel staff, daycare teams, business owners, dog nerds, and anyone else who wants to spend an evening learning, teaching, working dogs, solving problems, or just hanging out with good people.
Trainer Night has never really been about one training philosophy, one sport, or one level of experience.
It’s about getting people together.
Some nights we may be working obedience or behavioral cases. Other nights it could be tracking, detection, husbandry, Search & Rescue, IGP, French Ring, PSA, agility, puppy development, or something completely different.
And sometimes the most useful conversation has nothing to do with the dog in front of us.
Running a training, boarding, or daycare business creates some weird problems. Difficult client situations. Operational problems. Staff issues. Training cases that don’t fit neatly into a textbook. Trainer Night gives us a place to sit around with other people in the industry and ask:
“Alright… how would you handle this?”
If you’re good at something, come teach us.
If you’re struggling with something, bring it.
If you want more hands-on experience, bring a dog or work one of ours.
And if you don’t want to do any of that, come hang out, meet people, and make some friends.
There’s no charge. We want this to remain a place for learning, experimentation, science, conversation, and building a stronger dog community around Houston.
And there’s one more reason October 7th is a good night to bring everybody back together:
🎂 It’s Elliot’s birthday.
So come train some dogs, argue about dog training, teach us something, learn something, make some friends, and help us celebrate Elliot.
Wednesday, October 7th — 7 PM
📍 The Dog Standard - Houston Facility
12826 Shiloh Church Rd
Houston, TX 77066
We’re pretty chill. Come join us.
