- Puppy Pre-school
- Perfect Puppy
- Good Manners 1
- Canine Connection
- Agility
- Come Fido Come
- K9 Nose Work
- Canine Good Citizen
Puppy Pre-School
Saturdays @ 11:30am-12:30pm, starting July 10
Class duration: 4 weeks
Early puppy training establishes good manners and habits right from the start. Early puppy training helps prevent barking, mouthiness, jumping, pulling, and aggression later in life. Early contact with many people, places, and other puppies allows your puppy to grow up confident and friendly.
This class includes the following:
- Manners & Impulse Control - Teach your pup to sit rather than jump, pay attention, wait, walk nicely on leash and leave food and other items that are off limits.
- Bite Inhibition - Keep your hands and sleeves safe, and lay the foundation for a gentle mouth throughout your pups socialization. Shape your puppy into a well-mannered puppy who likes children & strangers.
- Handling - Teach your pup to enjoy being touched for easy nail clippings, vet exams, grooming, etc.
- House Training - Get the A to Z on potty training, complete with a schedule and helpful tips.
- Flexibility - We’re working on and off leash.
- Fun, and more Fun!
Age Requirement:
Pups must be between 10-weeks-old and 5-months-old at start of class
Perfect Puppy
Saturdays @ 9:00-10:00am, July 10 to July 31
Class duration: 4 weeks
For a teenage dog, the world is full of temptation and distraction: Chicken bones on the street, other dogs, Pizza on the coffee table. Too much fun to come when called. In this class, we continue your dogs education and socialization into becoming easygoing, well mannered pups who listen to their parents.
This class includes the following:
- Impulse control - Learn about distance, distractions, and duration-the basis for advanced doggie education.
- Manners - Build on your pup’s existing skills. Take sit, down, watch me, and loose leash walking to the next level.
- New learning - It’s time to add the tougher stuff. “ Go settle”, longer sit & down stays and more.
- Rocket recall - Want a dog that boomerangs back to you at the dog park? This is the way.
- Flexibility - We’re working on off leash heel.
- Fun - Always!
Prerequisites:
Puppy Kindergarten or the equivalent. Pups must be 5-10 months-old at start of class.
Good Manners 1 (Beginner Obedience)
Saturdays @ 10:15-11:15am, July 10 to July 31
Class duration: 4 weeks
Your dog's next step towards becoming a Good Manners dog that all your family and friends will envy. We practice exquisite manners.
This class includes the following:
- Generalization - Learn how to take distance, distraction, and duration into the world.
- Recall when it counts - Test your dog's recall at the dog park and be amazed at the results.
- Loose- Leash in a crowd - Stroll through a busy shopping district with a well-mannered pooch at your side.
- Leave it - Always. Cement your dog’s resistance to temptation.
- Café-quality stay - Practicing long down stays with distractions that earns you a dog you can take anywhere.
- Heel - Off-leash
- Fun - Always!
Age Requirement:
Dogs must be 1 year or older.
Canine Connection
Saturdays @ 11:00am, July 17 to August 14 (*please note: No class August 7)
Class duration: 4 weeks
This class includes the following:
- Learn how to increase your dog's attention and focus on you!
- A great first class for dogs with lots of energy or dogs that need to build confidence
- Connect with your canine partner by learning how to communicate
- Increase focus and create a better overall relationship
- Play interactive games, learn how to shape tricks, sample some agility and basic obedience
Agility
Agility training is fun mental and physical stimulation for you and your dog! Your dog will gain confidence as you build your relationship with positive reinforcement instruction. Instructor Julie O’Konski holds 23 agility titles and passes on her 10 years of experience.
Beginner Agility
Saturdays @ 9:00am, July 17 to August 28 (*please note: No class August 7)
Class duration: 6 weeks
This class will teach handler and dog alike the basic working knowledge and foundation so dogs will perform with ease and confidence.
This class includes the following:
- Great mental stimulation for dogs
- Learn how to safely and successfully train your dog to execute and perform agility obstacles with ease
- Create a higher level of team work and a stronger bond with your dog while having fun!
Equipment that will be used in this class:
Tire, Open tunnel, Collapsed tunnel, Jumps, A-frame, Wobble plank (intro to the teeter totter), Pause table, Slightly raised planks (intro to the dog walk)
Prerequisites:
Basic level obedience (or permission from instructor), the ability for handler to keep dog focused. Dogs must be at least 12 months of age. Handlers must be 12 years old or older.
Intermediate Agility
Saturdays @ 10:00am, July 17 to August 28 (*please note: No class August 7)
Class duration: 6 weeks
This class will teach handler and dog alike the basic working knowledge and foundation so dogs will perform with ease and confidence.
This class includes the following:
- Perfecting performance on agility obstacles familiarized in Agility 101
- Weave pole training; two different methods up to six poles
- Familiarizing the teeter totter and the dog walk at full height
- Mastering agility handling techniques by properly learning how to "walk a course"
Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Beginners Agility - must be proficient on all obstacles covered in Beginners Agility (no weaves).
Advanced "A" Agility
Mondays @ 7:30pm, July 19 to August 30 (*please note: No class August 2)
Class duration: 6 weeks
The continuation of team work exercises with the addition of more complex course sequences as well as the learning of such maneuvers as front crosses, proper timing of recalls on course and the improvement of contact criteria. Weave pole performance will be continued at this level as well.
Prerequisites:
This class is for those handler and dogs newly graduation from the Intermediate Agility level. It may be likely that each team will repeat this level several times until skills and performance level improve before they are ready to move on.
Advanced "B" Agility
Thursdays @ 7:00pm, July 22 to September 2
Class duration: 6 weeks
(*please note: Class #3 will be held Tuesday August 3 @ 6:30pm) and there will be no class Thursday August 19 due to Wagsworth Manor's Yappy Hour)
Handlers and dogs will perform on courses most likely seen in a Novice level competition. Course may be "tweaked" for more advanced teams if need be. Dogs may be ready at this point to perform 6-12 weave poles as part of a course.
Prerequisites:
This class is for those students who have perfected exercises from Advanced "A" Agility.
Come Fido Come
Coming in September 2010!
Does your dog not respond or take too long to come when called? Does your dog ignore you when there are detractions present?
Join this three-week course and learn a method that your canine will love to learn. Your canine will learn to respond within 5 seconds of being called.
Class size is limited.
K9 Nose Work
Coming in September 2010!
K9 Nose Work, the new, exciting, detection-style sport is designed to develop dogs’ natural scenting abilities by using their curiosity, desire to hunt, and their love of toys, food and exercise. It’s a great way for any dog to have fun, build confidence and burn lots of mental and physical energy. Dogs are sniffing it up!
The six week introductory class is designed to start the foundation skills and get your dog using his natural scenting abilities.
About the classes
- The classes meet once a week for 90 minutes
- Class is limited to 8 dog/handler teams
- Each dog will be worked individually multiple times during the class
- Dogs will need to be crated between working times
Who can participate?
- Puppies/dogs 4 months and older
- Retired dogs
- Dogs with physical limitations (as long as they are mobile)
- Dogs with fear or dog aggression issues can participate too!
- Dogs that are people aggressive should not participate.
Canine Good Citizen (CGC)
Mondays @ 6:30pm, June 21- July 26
Class duration: 6 weeks
Wagsworth Manor will now be offering an opportunity for all dogs to enroll in our CGC (AKC, Canine Good Citizens) program. Our very own trainer, Julie O’Konski, has been approved as an official AKC Canine Good Citizens Evaluator and will be offering a special class to help dogs and their owners prepare for that much sought after certification!
Testing dates for the CGC will be determined soon.
