Classes We Provide
What would you like to learn with your dog?
Life Skills for Young Puppies
Dogs 9-15 weeks of age
6 week course (CAN BE OFFERED ONLINE, TOO)
Class Limit: 5 dogs
Designed to teach your dog the skills to live with your family in harmony. Skills covered includes sits, downs, impulse control, focus, recall, loose lead walking, jumping, nipping, and mouthing.
Life skills
Dogs 16 weeks or older
6 week course
Class Limit: 5 dogs
Designed to teach your dog the skills of focusing on the handler, impulse control, loose lead walking, recalls, sit, stay, down, polite greeting of dogs and people.
Loose Lead Walking advanced and Mat work
Dogs 5 months and older
4 week course (CAN BE OFFERED ONLINE, TOO)
Class Limit: 5 dogs
Designed to give your dog the basic skills needed to build stationing skills through mat training, and strengthen loose lead walking.
Nose Work Level 1
Dogs 5 months and older (especially good for older dogs who may not move so quickly)
6 Week Course
Prerequisite: A Life Skills Class or Reliable Recallers 1 or other companion obedience class (with
approval).
Class limit: 4 dogs
Provides rich mental stimulation and helps to create a dog who is calm and content. Skills taught in class can be easily transferred to your home environment to provide hours of fun activities for your dog and you. Designed to teach your dog to search for different scents and alert you when they find one. This class is great enrichment allowing your dog to perform natural dog behavior (sniffing to find things).
Intro to Agility
Dogs 6 months to 1 year or older
6 week course
Prerequisite’s: Completion of Life Skills, or Reliable Recalls Session One, or other Companion Obedience Class (with approval).
Class Limit: 4 dogs
Introduction to basic equipment, jumps with no bars and our handling system. Dogs MUST be able to work at the same time as other dogs.
Agility
Dogs 1 year or older
6 week course
Prerequisite: Intro To Agility, or other Agility Foundation Class (with approval).
Class Limit: 4 dogs
Continuation of agility equipment training and handling system. Teams will be grouped in classes with others of same skill level. Dogs MUST be able to work at the same time as other dogs.
Reliable Recalls
Dogs 16 weeks of age and older
40 games requiring two 7 week sessions to complete all 40 games.
Class limit: 5 dogs
Designed to teach your dog how to listen and recall when distractions are high. Games are taught in varying degrees of arousal with ever increasing distractions. Skills covered reliable recalls, focus, solid stays, choice in behaviors. Dogs MUST be able to work at the same time as other dogs.
Nose Work Levels 2, 3, 4
Dogs 5 months and older (especially for the older dogs who may not move so quickly)
6 Week Course
Prerequisite: Prior Nose Work Level class
These courses are designed to continue the search for scents, adding different odors and increasingly challenging scent hides to find. The additional challenges increase your dog’s confidence and joy in using their natural talent for sniffing.
Group classes require two participants to be enrolled and are held at our facility in Chimacum, Washington.
“I believe training dogs in a positive manner increases the bond between handler and dog. The dogs become quicker learners and the skills taught are performed willingly, time after time.”
- Jan Gould
Benefits of Online Lessons
· You receive the same level of personal instruction
· You learn from the comfort and safety of your home at your pace
· Decreases the level of stress for families and their dogs
· Allows you to focus on instruction with minimal distraction
· You receive links to video recordings of your lesson which allow you to revisit a lesson as many times as you need
· Flexible scheduling
· Simple technology, just a computer, tablet or smart phone with camera, audio and internet
· May keep dogs from rehearsing unwanted behaviors in connection to additional people in your home, such as jumping up on people
· Builds more focus on owner and enhances the relationship building
If interested in online courses, please contact me.
Our online school is currently under construction but updates will be coming soon!
