Events
Check back regularly for reoccurring and newly scheduled events!
Pool Sessions
Mondays 1-3pm
Fridays 3-5pm
Help your dog with:
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Learning to swim
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Getting more comfortable in the water
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Low impact exercise
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Weight management
Puppy Jump Start Class
Starts: June 24th @ 12:00pm
6 Weeks
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Prelude to Good Dog 1
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For puppies under 4 months of age (exceptions for new rescues and adolescents in need of further socialization)
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Focuses on setting puppies and their handlers up for success with proper socialization methodologies and training techniques to tackle early life puppy raising and training with confidence
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Meets once a week for one hour
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Optional 30 min playgroup at end of class
Week 1
Class rules
Toys and tools
Treat hierarchy
Appropriate praise
Punishment vs. correction
*Play group
Week 2
Socialization
Greeting strangers
Appropriate play behaviors
*Play group
Week 3
Puppy basics
- Crate training
- Potty training
- Teething/nipping
- Jumping
- Gentle/hand feeding
*Play group
Week 4
Building confidence
- Step ups
- Combating separation anxiety
- Practice supervised separation
*Play group
Week 5
Desensitizing vs. Counter Conditioning
- Body language
- Thresholds
- Visual desensing
- Noise desensing
*Play group
Week 6
Review materials
Graduation photos
Good Dog 1 FAQ
*Play group
Good Dog 1 Class
Starts: June 24th @ 1:30pm
6 Weeks
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Prelude to Good Dog 2
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For puppies, adolescents, and adult dogs
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Focuses on basic obedience cues and training methodologies to create proper communication between dog and handler and setting healthy boundaries at home and in public
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Meets once a week for one hour
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Optional 30 min playgroup at end of class
Week 1
Class rules
Shaping/conditioning
Marker words/clickers
Verbal/visual cues
Sit/down/touch
*Play group
Week 2
Stay/wait
Body blocking
Boundaries in the home
- Waiting for food
- Waiting at doors
- Furniture
*Play group
Week 3
Practice
- Sit
- Down
- Touch
- Stay
- Wait
*Play group
Week 4
Recall
- Tools
- Rocket dog
- Dog in the middle
- Hide and seek
*Play group
Week 5
Leash training
- Tools
- Sniff walk vs. loose leash vs. heel
- Rewarding check-ins
- Combating pulling/pancaking
*Play group
Week 6
Practice
- Recall
- Leash training
Graduation photos
Good Dog 2 FAQ
*Play group
Good Dog 2 Class
Starts: June 24th @ 3:00pm
6 Weeks
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Prep for Canine Good Citizen Test (CGC)
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For adolescents and adult dogs
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Focuses on advanced obedience cues, and beginning behavior modification methodologies
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Meets once a week for one hour
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Optional 30 min playgroup at end of class
Week 1
Patience and learning to settle
3 D’s
Place vs behavioral down
Practice sending to place
Instilling visual & verbal cues
Place with durational down
Relaxation protocol homework
*Play group
Week 2
Impulse control
Resource guarding
Leave it/Drop it
Flirt poles
Leave it/drop it homework
*Play group
Week 3
Practice place or recall with 3D’s
Heel
How to shape
Finish with sit
Pace changes
Figure 8’s
Heel homework
*Play group
Week 4
Practice leave it/drop it
Basic obedience vs behavior modification
Reactive barking
Positive punishment and aversives
Counter conditioning
Engage/disengage game
*Play group
Week 5
Practice heel
CGC Practice Test
*Play group
Week 6
Review material
Trick class
- Sit pretty
- Roll over
- Paw
- Spin
Graduation photos
*Play group