Come when called off-leash with some degree of distraction
from a distance greater than 20 feet.
Instructor: Blase Pfefferkorn. Course Fee: $115.
Ideal Puppy I and II
Each session is 4-weeks --
Ideal Puppy I class:
Starts: Thursday, December 4th at 6:30 p.m. No class December 25th or January 1st. Ends: January 29th.
Ideal Puppy II classes:
Next class Starts: Thursday, January 15th, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Ends: February 5th.
Current class began: Monday, November 3rd at 7:15 p.m. Ends: November 24th.
Ideal Pupppy I is your puppy's first class, almost like Kindergarten. Your puppy must be between 9 and 19 weeks at the start of class.
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. It is crucial that this developmental stage is used wisely!
We will work on critical skills such as socialization and bite inhibition (developing a soft mouth), as well as issues such as housebreaking, and chewing. Your pup will learn to control biting by playing with dogs his age. It's important that your puppy learns to be comfortable in strange settings and situations and to adapt to the world around him and feel at ease with other dogs and people.
Puppy play to teach important dog-dog socialization skills, is an important aspect of this class. We will also cover basic manners and preventing bad habits and behavior problems. We will introduce basic obedience such as sit, down, come, don't touch and follow. We will also discuss important things like grooming, house training, and socialization. We will show you good games to play with your puppy that are both fun and teach your puppy self control.
Ideal Puppy II follows the Puppy I class. It's important that you continue to bring your puppy to school for socialization and learning. We will continue to work on attention, recalls, sit, down and stays with increasing duration, distance, and distraction. We will work on leave it, send to mat, tricks, resource guarding, and other important issues. Socialization and puppy play continue to be an important part of this class. You can sign up your pup for Ideal Puppy II up to one year of age after graduating from the Ideal Puppy I class.
Sign up today; space is very limited. Click the Sign Up button for more information and forms to sign up.
Prerequisite for Ideal Puppy II: Your puppy must have graduated from Ideal Puppy I, or from a similar puppy class at another school to register for Puppy II. You can register for Puppy II anytime within 12 weeks of graduating from Puppy I (but exceptions apply depending upon your puppy's breed and age. Please ask.)
If your puppy is beginnning class for the first time, and is over five months of age, please sign up for Focus Foundation.
Instructor: Stacey Perry. Course Fee for each: $100 (or $75 each if signing up for both classes).
Sign up for both Ideal Puppy I Ideal Puppy II and save a total of $50! (Only one registration form is needed to sign up for both. Please list both on the form.)
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Super Puppy
Next class: Tuesday, December 2nd at 7:30 p.m. Ends December 23rd.
This class is held indoors
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 to working on strengthening obedience skills 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). Walking on a loose leash will be improved and we will work on training issues such as jumping on people. To provide mental stimulation for your dog (and have fun!) we will do some trick training in class. Attention training and games will be an important focus of this class.
Instructor: Mindy Cox. Course Fee: $85.
Puppy Agility Fun!
Next class begins on November 17th at 6:00 p.m. (No class on December 23rd) Ends: December 30th.
Current class began: Monday, October 6th at 6 p.m. Ends: November 10th
Puppy Agility Fun 2
Begins Tuesday, November 18th at 7:30 p.m. Ends December 16th.
This class continues the fun and learning of the first Puppy Agility Fun!
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.
Some goals of the class include:
- Reliable & fast recalls, sit/down stays
- Building drive & focus
- Toy motivation
- Crate games
- Surface desensitization (things that move, make noise and are elevated; hind end awareness )
- Introduction to some agility equipment (focusing on familiarization and confidence building initially then shifting to obstacle performance)
This class is designed for puppies 5 months to around 1 year of age. The class meets one day a week for approximately one hour. Classes are limited to 7 puppies. Dogs will need to have a crate, buckle collar or gentle leader, a 6 ft. leash (nylon or leather), and lots of tiny yummy treats (don't feed dinner before class)!
The class will focus on building a positive working relationship with your puppy using play, toys, and lots of treats.
Prerequisite for Puppy Agility Fun!: graduation from Ideal Puppy class (or similar in another school) or obedience class such as Focus Foundation; or approval from instructor or Training Director.
Prerequisite for Puppy Agility 2: graduation from Puppy Agility Fun! or approval from instructor or Training Director.
Instructor: Cynthia Kean. Course Fee: $110.
Register early to guarantee a spot in class. If you have any questions about signing up for this puppy class, please contact Mindy Cox, Training Director at 561-371-2038.
Intermediate Agility Sequencing
Begins: Thursday, November 6th at 6:30 p.m. Ends: December 18th (no class on November 27th).
This class is designed to improve specific handling skills each session.
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. Practice and
guidance in working through sequences provide the handler with exposure to
the many varieties of obstacle combinations, and experience in applying
all the available handling techniques.
If your dog is comfortable on all of the agility equipment, and is a year of age (preferable at least 14 months old) or older, you can sign up for this class.
Instructor- Sonya Cerron. Course fee: $90
Drop ins are welcome if there is space. $20 for the 1st dog; $15 for the 2nd.
Novice Agility (formerly called Level I)
Begins: Wednesday, November 26th at 6 p.m. Ends: January 14th (no class on December 24 and 31).
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. Sequencing is performed off lead, therefore, your dog also must be able to sit, stay, down, and come on command, off lead. Any of the contact equipment (a-frame, dogwalk, and teeter) not begun in Intro to Agility will be introduced.(Prerequisite- Intro to Agility or similar class or experience.)
Instructor: Mindy Cox. Course Fee: $100
Advanced/Masters Agility Skills and Handling
Next classes begin November 17th. Sign up for the 7:15 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. End: January 5, 2009 (no class December 1st and December 22nd)
Current classes began: Monday, October 6th. at 7:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. End: November 10th.
Please email if you'd like to drop-in. Drop ins are welcome if there's adequate space available in the class.
Cynthia Kean, AKC agility judge and top agility handler, will again be offering her expertise to teach this popular class. You will negotiate courses to improve your handling and your dog's skills. This class is ideal for anyone who wants to improve their communication with their dog and increase speed and reliability. If you are competing at any level in agility (or are close to it), from the novice handler to the masters level handler, this class is designed to challenge you and help you develop or strengthen your proficiency. You will work on perfecting your different handling skills (when to use them and how to execute them) so that you are clear to your dog and can increase your dog's speed and confidence. You will also learn how to walk the course to develop your handling strategy.
Course fee: $90. Drop ins are welcome if there is space: $20 for the 1st dog; $15 for the 2nd.
Introduction to Agility
TBD. Please email if you are interested in this class.
In Introduction to Agility (Level I) 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. By the end of this class the dogs will have a good working knowledge of many of the obstacles (the A-frame and the dogwalk will not be completed but we will begin shaping correct contact skills). Prerequisite - Focus Foundation, similar obedience class, or at instructor's discretion. Instructor: Mindy Cox. Total fee: $110
SUMMARY OF UPCOMING CLASSES
For complete info, check listings above (click on class name).
Rally-O begins Wednesday, October 15th at 6:15 Ends: November 19th.
Focus Foundation begins Wednesday, November 12th at 7:30 p.m. Ends: December 17th (FULL) and Tuesday, November 18th at 6:15 p.m.
Ideal Puppy I begins Thursday, December 4th at 6:30 p.m. No class December 25th or January 1st. Ends: January 29th.
Ideal Puppy II
begins Thursday, January 15th, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Ends: February 5th.
Super Puppy begins Tuesday, December 2nd at 7:30 p.m. Ends December 23rd.
Puppy Agility Fun! Next class begins on November 17th at 6:00 p.m. (No class on December 23rd) End: December 30th.
Puppy Agility 2 begins Tuesday, November 18th at 7:3 p.m. Ends December 16th.
Novice Agility (formerly Agility Level I) begins Wednesday, November 26th at 6 p.m. Ends: January 14th (no class December 24th or 31st).
Intermediate Agility Sequencing begins: Thursday, November 6th at 6:30 p.m. Ends: December 18th (no class on November 27th)
Masters/Advanced Agility Handling & Skills
Next classes begin November 17th. Sign up for the 7:15 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. End: January 5, 2009 (no class December 1st and December 22nd)
Current classes began Monday, October 6th. Sign up for the 7:15 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. class. Ends: November 10th.
Agility Fun Runs- go to Special Events
Pet CPR/First Aid class- go to Special Events
We reserve the right to change or cancel any class dates or times. If you have signed up, you will be informed of any adjustments to your class. Classes have a minimum and maximum participation requirement, so sign up early to be sure that you have a spot, but also to guarantee that your class will have enough participants to be held. We cannot reserve spots in class without the registration form and payment in advance. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation!
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