Training Classes
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Good Dog 101
This 6-week class focuses on building a foundation for a great relationship with your dog, as well as practical training to make your daily life with your dog a joy instead of a struggle.
We cover basic manners training, teach some tricks and foundational training for dog sports. We train your dog to sit, lie down, come when called, leave it, wait, greet people politely, go to your place, and shake paw. We also lay the foundation for polite leash walking. Dogs also get to practice some beginner agility obstacles—jump, tunnel, and tilt plank.
Class Schedule
Saturdays @ Noon
Starts March 25th
Location: Wikazri Canine Sports Field
Cost: $180
Good Dog 201
This 6-week class continues training behaviors from Good Dog 101 in new and varied contexts, refining the behaviors from Good Dog 101 and develop your dog’s ability to focus on you around distractions.
We help your dog generalize “leave it” and coming-when-called by training them “in the field” and in more challenging contexts.
We also train new behaviors: stand, stay, paws up, spin, and go around (an object), as well as build on leash-walking foundations to train handler-focused leash walking. Dogs gain physical confidence by continuing to practice on beginner agility equipment. The prerequisite for this class is Good Dog 101.
Class Schedule
Saturdays @ 10 am
Starts March 25
Location: Wikazri Canine Sports Field
Cost: $180
Trick Training
This 6-week class provides a fun way to bond with your dog and impress all your friends. We cover the classics like shake, spin in a circle, puppy push-ups, take a bow, and more. We also teach station training and foundational trick training concepts to help you build on the basics and move onto more advanced tricks.
On completion of the class, you and your dog will have enough tricks for AKC Novice Trick Dog title and will have the opportunity to take the Novice Trick Dog test.
Class Schedule
Saturdays @ 2 pm
Starts March 25
Location: Wikazri Canine Sports Field
Cost: $150
Fuzzy Matters Grad School:
Leash-walking and Station Training
This 4-week class focuses on refining leash-walking skills and solidifying station training.
Loose-leash walking is one of the most challenging skills to master. In this class we spend time re-visiting foundational skills and refining focused leash-walking skills taught in Good Dog 101 and 201.
Station training--teaching your dog to love getting on a platform and staying until released--is a great confidence builder for dogs and a handy tool for dog owners. In this class, we will magnetize our dogs to a platform, teach them to go to a platform when cued, and to stay on a platform until released. We also leverage platform training for better stays.
In this 4-week class, we toggle between these two skills.
Prerequisite: This is a Fuzzy Matters Grad School class offering. Students must have completed Good Dog 101 and be able to train safely off-leash around other leashed dogs to participate in this class.
Class Schedule
To be announced
Location: Wikazri Canine Sports Field
Cost: To be announced
Doggy Dancing: Canine Musical Freestyle
Nobody puts Puppy in the corner.
This class is a canine freestyle sampler. We train you and your dog to use props like gates and platforms, often used in freestyle training. We also train the dog to do some basic freestyle positions and moves: stand, maintaining a stand in heel, moving through the handler's legs to heel, circling around the handler, and bow.
Class Schedule
To be announced
Cost: $25
There are no pre-requisite training requirements for this class. However, dogs that are able to work off-leash around other dogs will find some exercises simpler to execute.
Disc Dog 101
This 4-week class focuses on foundation disc-dog skills, including bite-work, recall games, motivating and rewarding your dog effectively, toss and fetch, and tricks.
The first class meeting is a humans-only, disc-toss class. Class meetings 2, 3, and 4 include both human and dog students.
All students have access to the class disc library for the duration of the class and receive 2 discs to keep, included in the class cost.
Class Schedule
To be announced
Cost: $125