LESSONS

Renée teaching a beginner agility class.
		Here we are chatting about foundation skills and practicing the 'send' skill we are working on using a barrel.

Agility - people get better dogs, dogs get better lives!

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Folks usually sign up for classes in their area and continue learning agility skills long after the dog is safely performing on the equipment in Beginner class. Handling skills like negotiating sequences of obstacles, jumping skills, ground work, obstacle discrimination, distance work, focus on the handler and obstacles are taught and refined in the intermediate classes. 

PRIVATE LESSONS vs GROUP CLASSES

Private Lessons:

• Can accommodate special needs of the clients.
• Can be arranged to suit your schedule.
• Can focus on your specific problems as well as basic obedience.
• Reactive or very shy dogs benefit from Private Instruction before integration into a regular class.

Group Classes

• Provide socialization for your dog with other people and dogs.
• Let you meet and learn from other dog owners.
• Provides distractions to help you train your dog to pay attention to you.
• Are less expensive than Private Training.

Obedience Lessons:

Private lessons available at your home or where needed within the district of Chilliwack. At $60.00 per hour, lesson at your home are tailored to your needs.

PUPPY KINDERGARDEN:

• Puppies need a good start in life by having their new owners become firm, fair and consistent leaders.
• Puppies are taught using age appropriate methods to teach: house training, feeding routines, chewing habits, loose leash walking, trading up, start of the 'come' command, sit/down/stand, a settle command, proper greeting skills, & socialization.

• We deal with habits like jumping up, inappropriate chewing, counter surfing, and submissive urination.
• By teaching the handlers how to break games and tricks down into learnable steps for the dog, the owners get to pick a bran new behavior and teach the class how they did it.

BASIC OBEDIENCE:

• Dogs learn to mind their owners by using humane methods with positive re-enforcement.
• Dogs are taught sit, greeting skills, down, stand, loose leash walking, heel, come, stay, and a release command. If time allows we often cover a leave-it command, a drop-it command and a look command.
• Dog and handlers take a field trip, discuss meeting of other dogs and responsible pet ownership.
• Dog owners are taught how to teach a command, how to correct a command and how to proof a skill with distraction.

Group lessons offered approximately every 6 weeks:

Where:	South Sumas Rd, Chilliwack B.C.	Covered Horse arena
When:	Tuesday evenings Puppy Kindergarten 7-8 Basic Obedience 8-9	Taking names for the Jan 2012 classes.
Who:	Puppy Kindergarten: Vaccinated dogs less than 6 months old.		Basic Obedience: Vaccinated dogs more than 6 months old.
What:	Puppy Kindergarten classes - focus on training sit/stand/down, Sit to be greeted, Loose Leash walking, come, wait and tug with a Drop-it, We also have an off-leash social interaction and start basic clicker training teaching targeting and a few tricks. Each session is 6 weeks.	Basic Obedience classes - focus on training sit/stand/down, sit to be greeted, heel, come, and stay. We will be working Duration/Distance and Distractions and using motivation and rewards such as tug with a Drop-it, If there's time we will learn a few tricks. Each session is 6 weeks.

Contact Renée for dates and details (604) 858-8584