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Class Size is Limited so you always receive personal attention.


Ask us about private obedience or agility lessons.
We offer the following classes:
(CLICK on the class title for more info)

Special Interest Classes

Reactive Dog Class
Pilates For Pooches

Obedience / Manners Classes

Focus Foundation
Focus Skills 2
Rally-O
Obedience II/Performance Dog

Puppy Classes

Ideal Puppy I & Ideal Puppy II
Super Puppy
Puppy Play
Puppy Agility Fun!
Puppy Agility 2
Puppy Agility 3

Agility Classes
(see also Puppy Agility above)

Agility Jumping Skills
Intro to Agility
Beginning Agility
Novice Agility
Intermediate Agility I & II
Advanced/Masters Agility
Agility Sequencing
Agility Fun Runs scheduled

We also do special events, including seminars, agility and rally run-thrus, workshops, and private dog parties.


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  • Find the class you want on the list to the right. For events, go to the Events page.

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Do I need a club membership to take a class?

No. Becoming a club member and taking a class are two unrelated things, so you can take a class without being a member and vice versa. But as a member you have access to Lucky Dog and can practice whenever you want (when there is no class scheduled).

What are your hours?

An instructor is at Lucky Dog only when there is a scheduled class. However, we are happy to give you a tour and discuss classes at your convenience. Just give Mindy a call at 561-427-6700 to arrange it.

Do you only offer group classes?

While small group classes are a terrific and more economical way to train your dog, sometimes your pooch (and you!) need a little extra help. Call us to schedule a private lesson.
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Class Schedules


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such as Agility Fun Runs and Seminars


Please register early to ensure your spot in class as well as guarantee that the class will be held since there is a minimum and maximum particpation for each class.

Most Classes run an hour a week for 6 weeks
(unless otherwise noted)


Click on class title or "More Info" link in class summaries below for complete information

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(Month-at-a-Glance)

Reactive Dog Class: Help for the Feisty Fido

Wednesday, September 29th..

Snarling dog Got a feisty Fido when it comes to certain interactions? Do you feel lost when your dog barks, growls, lunges or generally becomes difficult to control around other dogs or people? This class is about your dog learning relaxation and trust and overcoming fear and anxiety. The training methods used are based on the development of a working relationship with your dog. Understand what your reactive dog is doing, why he's doing it, and how to change it. Learn the tools to decrease the stress in your dog and teach him or her confidence and focus. Come work with your dog in a controlled, supportive environment. Instill a conditioned emotional response, learn calming and management techniques, coping responses, and emergency escape exercises.

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Focus Foundation


--Monday, September 13th at 6:15 p.m.
--Monday, Septembre 27th at 7:30 pm.


Focused Golden Teaching your dog to understand your obedience commands is important but it's relationship-building that really counts. When you build communication skills and a better relationship with your dog, better manners and obedience will easily follow. This 6-week class is the foundation for all future training and is perfect for improving the behavior of your favorite pooch. We will train or improve basic obedience skills and improve manners. We will work on attention, impulse control, and the ability to work around other dogs as well as people and distractions. We will work on building better motivation and confidence.

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Focus Skills Level 2

Tuesday, August 31st at 6:15 p.m. Ends September 28th. Obedient trio

You've discovered out how much fun it is to train and work with your dog, and you want to keep going. Great! Whether you want to strengthen what you’ve learned, or maybe you just enjoy the interaction with your dog, taking the next level class is a great idea! This class is recommended for graduates of Focus Foundation. We will advance your dog’s level of training by strengthening what your dog learned at the basic level and adding new exercises. This is a 5-week class.

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Rally - O

No class is scheduled at this time. Tell us if you are interested.

Rally Rally-O (also know as Rally Obedience) emphasizes fun and excitement for the dog/handler team while providing an interactive approach to obedience. Rally is about the most fun you can have doing obedience exercises with your dog! The exercises involved in the course will help build your skills as a handler and increase your dog's repertoire of behaviors. Praise, encouragement, and continuous communication are encouraged in this fun sport.

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Obedience Performance Dog

(Follow up to Focus Foundation and other obedience classes.)Heel
No class is scheduled at this time.

This is an intermediate obedience class for dogs and their handlers who have completed Focus Foundation or equivalent. Obedience II is for those wanting to build even greater communication and obedience skills or compete with their dog. Blase will work with students of different levels to improve their handling and increase proficiency using positive reinforcement. For advanced family dogs, this class will also help to improve your communication and sharpen your obedience skills.

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Pilates for Pooches

Saturday, July 24th at 10 a.m. (50 minute class). Ends August 14th.
This is a 4-week class

On the Ball

Whether your dog is a playful pet or performance pooch, strength is needed to keep your dog healthy and active. Working your dog on a balance ball or disk is an excellent and safe way to build muscle.There are many benefits to be gained from regular workouts on the ball. Improve your dog's core strength, balance, flexibility and endurance.

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Ideal Puppy I & Ideal Puppy II
playing pups

Session A from 7:15 to 8:15 pm
Ideal Puppy I begins Thursday, September 2nd.
Ideal Puppy II begins Thursday, September 30th.

Session B from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Ideal Puppy I begins Thursday, September 30th.
Ideal Puppy II begins Thursday, October 28th.

Why should all puppies go to school? By five months of age much of your puppy's personality has been determined, so it is very important to begin a class prior to this age. Early puppyhood is a critical time for socialization and learning. This time will set the stage for the rest of your puppy's life. This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime chance to show your puppy how to confidently relate to other puppies, unfamiliar people, and strange sights, sounds, and events. Reserve your puppy's spot today in this limited-enrollment class.

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Super Puppy  

Not scheduled at this time.
Super Puppy class

This fun, high-energy 4-week class is for graduates of Puppy I and/or II (or similar) and are 6 to 12 months of age. Your pup must be friendly towards people and other dogs and have good play skills. This mostly off-leash class is similar to Focus Foundation except that in addition we will continue to promote good socialization skills through play and interaction. We will work on sit, down stand and stay, adding duration, distance, and distraction,and using positive reinforcement (and the clicker for those that want to).

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Puppy Play  

Not scheduled at this time.puppies playing

It is important to allow your puppy plenty of time to play and to interact with other puppies and dogs. Socialization training is vital to making your new puppy a good canine citizen and teaches your pup to not be fearful around other dogs. A properly socialized dog learns how to play properly with other dogs, and overly aggressive play is corrected by the other puppies in the play group so the each puppy learns appropriate play and bite inhibition.

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Puppy Agility Fun!

Puppy in tunnelWednesday, July 21st at 6 p.m. (one hour). Ends August 25th. This class will be held mostly indoors.

Take advantage of your puppy's natural curiosity and abundant energy to introduce him or her to the fun sport of agility! This 6-week class will focus on some fundamentals of agility using puppy games that will utilize targeting, wobble boards, focus and basic obedience skills. Puppies will be introduced to sights, sounds, and techniques that are helpful toward building confidence without stress on baby joints. Clickers, treats and toys will be used for focus motivators. Class will help build your puppy's confidence and strengthen your bond and partnership. The goal is to create a dog that is engaged, focused and motivated as well as one that is confident, well socialized, and eager to offer behaviors and learn.

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Puppy Agility 2

Wednesday, September 1st - October 6th at 6:30 p.m. puppy

We will continue to work on obedience skills for agility. Obstacles such as A-frame, dogwalk, and teeter at low heights will be taught to give the puppies confidence and with safety in mind. Open channel weave poles will be used and we will work on front crosses. The puppy's correct position relative to the handler will be stressed, as well as teaching the puppy the confidence to begin working away from the handler. Short sequences will be run using obstacles such as the table, chute, tunnel and open weaves. No jumping will be done at this young age.

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Puppy Agility 3

Not scheduled at this time
puppy on aframe

Your puppy is getting older and his agility skills are improving. Puppy Agility 2 is the prerequisite for Puppy Agility 3. Equipment is being raised, and correct contact behavior (2 on/2off) is being strengthened and improved. More challenging sequences are being offered to your older and more experienced puppy. We are still not jumping, but we do use jumps with no bars to teach handling around the jump uprights.

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Agility Jumping Skills

No class is scheduled at this time.

To be successful in the sport of agility, the dog must be a skillful jumper. Every course your dog will ever run is primarily made up of jumps; yet, is it the least understood skill set in agility. When a dog understands how to jump, he will run more smoothly, efficiently, and decisively. Based upon Linda Mecklenberg's jump training, this class is geared towards both dogs just learning to jump and is also recommended for all dogs competing in agility. The class will increase your awareness of your dog's natural responsiveness to your body language and the effect it has on his or her jumping.

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Intro to Agility

Tuesday, August 31st at 7:30 p.m.
sheltie jumping tire

In Introduction to Agility (more agility info here) dogs will be introduced to many of the obstacles in agility such as jumps, tunnel, chute, and open weaves, in a safe and controlled manner. The skills needed to successfully negotiate the obstacles and the handling skills will be worked on weekly. Attention, focus and motivation will be practiced as the team builds confidence in an atmosphere that centers on learning skills while having fun.

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Beginning Agility

No class is scheduled at this time.
dog on pause table

In this class handling skills and basic control will be improved. Students learn to give timely commands, to provide consistent and smooth body cues, and to develop teamwork with their dogs. Handlers also develop the ability to switch smoothly from handling their dogs off one side to handling off the other in the middle of a sequence. The dog and handler teams will continue to improve their skills and will become more proficient at simple combinations of obstacles.

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Novice Agility
No class is scheduled at this time..
teeter

We will continue to develop teamwork and increase handling skills. Sequencing is performed off lead, therefore, your dog also must be able to sit, stay, down, and come on command, off lead. Handlers also develop the ability to switch smoothly from handling their dogs off one side to handling off the other in the middle of a sequence using front and rear crosses. The different come to side maneuvers will be practiced using obstacles. Dogs will be taught to move ahead and switch as needed from handler to obstacle focus.

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Intermediate Agility I & II

Thursday, October 21st at 7 p.m. tunnel

This class is designed to advance you and your dog's agility skills and to prepare you and your dog for competition, if desired. The class will build on jumping skills, obstacle discrimination, and distance handling skills. The dogs must be reliable off leash and under good control. Dog/handler teamwork is emphasized, not on just getting through a sequence but the way in which it is accomplished. The class is designed to teach the handler and the dog how to gain confidence, accuracy, and speed.

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Advanced / Masters Agility Handling & Skills

- Monday, October 18th at 6:00 p.m.

- Tuesday, October 12th at 7:30 p.m.

weaves

Cynthia Kean , AKC agility judge and top agility handler, will again be offering her expertise to teach this popular class. The class will include complex sequences found in Excellent and/or World Team level courses designed to build the skills necessary to successfully compete at the highest levels. In the class you will continue to perfect skills that are needed to be successful and get the most out of a performance. This class is ideal for anyone who wants to improve their communication with their dog and increase speed and reliability.

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Agiity Sequencing

This will be scheduled from time to time. Watch for the dates. jumping

The sequences are designed to improve specific handling skills each session as you work with your dog on communication to do the sequences effectively and efficiently as a team.. Whether it is front or rear crosses, serpentines or threadles, better contacts, 180 degree and 270 degree turns, speed, distance, or any other skill, course sequences will be set up to challenge and instruct.

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Other Classes & Events

Pet CPR/First Aid class
Learn the skills you need to help your dog in an emergency.
Friday, October 8th.

The Mind of the Dog: Understanding How Your Dog Learns.
This exciting information will improve all aspects of your life with your dog.
This one time seminar is on Friday, September 24th at 7 p.m.

For MORE INFO please visit our Events Page

 
 

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