Agility Class descriptions.   Classes held Monday – Friday

Beginners class for dogs that have never seen equipment.  Handlers can be familiar with equipment.  Introduction to the equipment, how to teach your dog to jump, weaves, contact obstacles will to shown to your dog.  Handlers will learn how to safely train the dogs to navigate around the obstacles.  Obedience for agility will be addressed, sit, stay, come which is crucial to training agility.  How to use food and toys in the training of agility will be shown to the handlers and dogs.  Dogs should be at least nine months old.

Advanced Beginner – once dog and handler have completed the beginner 2 class, we continue to show the dogs more of the equipment.  The dogs will learn how to safely do the obstacles.  We will begin to work on handling and how to get your dogs from one obstacle to the other.  Handling, front and rear crosses, why we do them are addressed in this class.

Novice Competition class – for dogs who are familiar with all equipment.  Weaves can be open, not straight; see-saw can be low.  Handler has an idea regarding contacts and has criteria on the performance of them.  Learning to handle dogs to successfully complete the sequence will be a high priority in this class.

Competition– Full size course is run, dogs do closed weaves.  Courses are more difficult and the sequences will challenge the dog and handler team to work at the Advanced/Open and Masters/Excellent level.

****Attention agility handlers:  Obedience can help you with your agility; teach your dog to work better off-lead. whether you have no start line stay or your dog won’t get off the start line. Faster recalls and faster sits and downs on the table. Help your dog be handler focused as well as obstacle focused.  Help your dog know what a proof is and keep his attention on what you are asking them to do***

Obedience Class descriptions  Classes held Monday – Friday

Puppy Kindergarten  the class is for dogs 4 – 8 months of age and having all initial shots completed.  Each 1 hour class will introduce you to the positive and motivational methods of training and communicating with your dog.  You will learn to develop your puppy into a well round adult through mastering the Beginning Basic Obedience commands (sit, down, stay, come, etc.).  We will also work with you on “Puppy Problems” (mouthing, jumping, etc.) in addition to introducing Basic Beginning Agility and Socialization with dogs the same age.

Beginning Obedience  the class will help develop your dog’s self confidence and enable them to work under various distractions.  Each 45 minute class will help develop a strong working and relationship bond between you and  your dog.  We will build upon the Basic Obedience commands (sit, down, stay, come, etc) and help you develop the dog’s attention skills.  We will work on special issue, such as pulling, lunging, barking, etc.

Advance Beginner Obedience  this class will help strengthen your dog’s self confidence and control.   While working on long stays and introduction of various distractions we will help you handle and situation that may arise while walking or working with your dog.  The introduction of basic agility obstacles will enable you to develop voice control over your dog and strengthen their attention skills.

 Novice Obedience   at this level of Obedience training we will help you get ready to enter the world of working competition with your dog.  Through developing your dog’s attention skills we will work on developing a strong working team and competition required skills.   This class will set you up to move into areas such as Obedience Competition, Rally Competition and Agility Competition.

Rally Run Thrus held  Tuesday afternoon

RALLY NOVICE & Advanced RUN THRUS

RALLY Masters & Excellent RUN THRUS