Level 1
Life-Skills and Obedience
During these classes, your dog will learn to:
- Make eye contact with you
- Walk on a loose lead
- Come when called
- Sit for greetings
- Lie down and stand on cue
- Leave it
- Handling skills for grooming and vet visits
You will also learn about canine body language, environmental enrichment, life rewards, on lead manners around other dogs, using a clicker, and mat training. We will include some tricks to train too!
Level 2
Life-Skills and Obedience
This course is designed to refine some of the basic exercises from Level 1. Level 2 will focus on verbal and hand cues, and getting your dog to improve with duration, distance and distractions. We will also work on reducing reliance on lures and moving towards more subtle visual or verbal signals instead.
- Recalls
- Commands such as settle, mat (go to mat) and stay
- Settling after play
- Walking close in the heel position for passing dogs and people
- and more
We will also teach your dog to follow targets and perform tricks. Dogs will learn to walk and perform at markers, handle and accept restraint, first aid, tolerance to separation and car safety. You will be finding out about how dogs learn and communicate, leadership and trouble-shooting skills.
Level 3
Life-Skills and Obedience
This course is based around the previous levels but with an emphasis on perfecting all behaviours that have been learnt. Your dog will be able to perform for you at home and in the community meaning that you will have a dog you are proud to take out in public.
The goal of these higher levels is to get your dog to a point that their behaviour is more reliable with distractions, distance, duration, better response time and the ability to listen reliably without you needing to rely on using rewards to get them to listen to you. There will also be the option for advanced skills at this level.
Are you looking for a space that genuinely cares about the wellbeing and progress of your dog?
We’d love to hear from you and see how we can help.
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