Class Schedules & Info

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--Monday, July 8, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.

Great for dogs of all ages and abilities, K9 Nose Work is a great way for your dog to have fun, build confidence, and burn lots of mental and physical energy. In this class we take your dog’s instinctual skill and teach them to use it to play games with their noses! As your dog becomes more skilled, the challenges increase so your dog continues to learn and have fun!

--Wednesday, May 29th at 6 p.m.

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. Focus Foundation is a 6-week class and 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.

Not scheduled at this time.

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! Focus Skills Level 2 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.

(Follow up to Focus Foundation and other obedience classes.)
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 Performance DogI 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.

NEW CLASS! Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at noon

TRICKS AND TREATS class, for dogs of all ages (yes, an old dog can learn new tricks!) is all about cutting loose and having fun with your dog! Teaching your dog tricks is a great way to strengthen the bond between you and your dog, build confidence with timid or shy dogs, or just make you and others smile! Trick training offers endless benefits to dogs and humans alike. It burns mental and physical energy, strengthens bonding, and increases attention and your dog’s desire to learn and work with you. It’s also fun, motivating and a great way to show off your dog’s brilliance to your family, friends and neighbors!

NEW CLASS! Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 12:30 p.m. (FULL)

Want to spend time with your dog having lots of fun and bonding? Looking for ideas and activities? Then this tail-wagging fun class is for you! In this class you and your dog will play games and learn fun, easy skills while doing exercises such as doggie bowling, sniff and search, tricks, navigating a doggie obstacle course, working on some dog gymnastics, and much more! This class is perfect for dogs of all ages and abilities.

Please let us know if you are interested

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. Pilates for Pooches will give your dog all that and more.

--Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 6 p.m.
--Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 7:15 p.m.

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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The fun, high-energy 4-week Super Puppy class is for graduates of Ideal PuppyI (or similar) and are 5 to 9 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 off-leash 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). This class is for motivated owners that want to take their puppy to the next level!

Saturday, May 18, 2013 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

It is important to continue to allow your older 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 puppy becomes a more emotionally healthy adult. We will also incorporate obedience, attention, and focus exercises to keep your pup sharp and engaged. This class is for all dog-friendly pooches between 5-9 months.

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For pups 5-12 months of age. Take advantage of your youngster'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.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 4 p.m.

We will continue to work on obedience skills for agility in Older Pup Agility 2. Obstacles such as A-frame, dogwalk, and teeter at low heights will be taught to give the young dog under a year of age 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.

Not scheduled at this time

Your adolescent dog 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/2 off) is being strengthened and improved. More challenging sequences are being offered to your older and more experienced young dog. We are still not jumping, but we do use jumps with no bars to teach handling around the jump uprights.

Not 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 it is 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 needing to improve their skills. In addition, weaving skills will be worked on, including gaining proficiency in entering the weaves from all angles.

No class at this time. We will schedule the next one in the Fall 2013.

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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This is the next clas after Intro to Agility. 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.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 7:15 p.m.

We will continue to develop teamwork and increase handling skills in Novice Agility. This is the class for Beginning Agility grads. 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.

Monday, April 22, 2013 at 6:15 p.m.

Intermediate Agility 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.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Classes at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Drop ins are also welcome if there is room.

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.

NEW CLASS! Wednesday, Monday, April 22, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Drop ins are also welcome if there is room.

Challenge yourself in this exciting class! Agility continues to get more competitive and technical. We are observing many more handling techniques that are being demonstrated by the best handlers in the world and we want to bring them to you! In this class you will learn the newest tips, tricks and techniques to get you and your canine partner from point A to point B in the fastest, most motivating and most efficient way possible. We will walk through and discuss different ways of handling the same sequence and find out what works best for you and your dog. You will learn new handling skills that you may not have been aware of or had the opportunity to try.

NEW CLASS! Date is pending (please let us know if you are interested!) This class is held mainly indoors (so you will stay cool in the summer.)

There are many dog skills that are useful on the agility course that are too time consuming to teach or perfect in an agility class. But to be even more successful on course it's often nice to have those skills in your dog's agility toolbox. In this class we will uncover and address the gaps in your dog's understanding that are so often compensated for by your handling strategy. This will free you up to choose the best handling strategy for the course, knowing (and trusting) that your dog possesses the skills to get it done.

Not scheduled at this time

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.