{"id":25368,"date":"2025-10-29T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25368\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:23:07","slug":"what-a-great-dog-training-center-to-offer-dog-puppy-training-in-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25368\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Great Dog! Training Center to offer dog, puppy training in Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA new dog training facility is set to move into Richardson near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalrichtownesquare.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dal-Rich Towne Square<\/a> shopping center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cor.net\/government\/city-council\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richardson City Council<\/a> approved a special use permit for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatagreatdog.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What A Great Dog! Training Center<\/a> during its Oct. 27 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>What they offer<\/p>\n<p>The dog training center will offer \u201cpositive, reward-based dog training,\u201d owner Maureen Patin said during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>What A Great Dog offers group and private dog and puppy training and manners classes in the facility. It also offers specialized in-home training options, drop-off day school and online training courses.<\/p>\n<p>The background<\/p>\n<p>What A Great Dog had a location in Richardson on N. Glenville Road from 2016-24. Patin said that the center consolidated services into their Frisco location in late 2024 due to a \u201chuge rent increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The facility will be moving all operations to the new Richardson location at the end of its lease in Frisco next January, Patin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re tired of leasing\u2014we want to make an investment in a community, get a building, get established and stay there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The special use permit was required as the space is currently zoned for office use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new dog training facility is set to move into Richardson near the Dal-Rich Towne Square shopping center.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[750,17917,160,162,161,959,17916],"class_list":{"0":"post-25368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-coming-soon","9":"tag-dog-training","10":"tag-plano","11":"tag-plano-headlines","12":"tag-plano-news","13":"tag-richardson","14":"tag-what-a-great-dog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}