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Workshops
Different types of workshops run over a period of sessions that build on various skills and understanding. A lot of these skills and enrichment are species-specific behaviours and are designed to enhance your bond with your dog. They are also workshops to build on your understanding of your dog and their language, communication and understanding.
Currently the workshops offered are as follows:
Reactivity Classes
Sensitive Souls
Gundog
Scentwork
Recall & Lead walking (TBC)
Anchor 1
Reactivity
Reactivity classes are for dogs who struggle with walking past other dogs or remain calm from a distant from other dogs, people or otber aspects. The workshop is a 4 week course that covers the basics of reactivity as well as health and safety aspects and understanding of dog law.
In this workshop we cover the main skills during canine reactivity as well as the basics needed to be able to move forward with dog reactivity training.
As an example the workshop goes through the following:
- introduction to dog reactivity
- health and safety & dog law including muzzle training, double lead attachments and harnesses
- what to do when your dog REACTS
- Desensetisation and counter-conditioning
- Use of pattern games, scentwork and confidence games
- Focus & Disengagement skills
- Next workshop progress
Sensitive Souls
Our Sensitive soul workshop is for dogs who have completed the reactivity classes and to progress onto working around other dogs in an open environment. In this workshop we go through a mix of different skills that can help build a dogs confidence, enrichment and calmness skills. We also go through dog body language and understanding different skills that can help with building confidence and understanding around other dogs.
As an example the workshop goes through the following:
- Desensetisation and counter-conditioning
- Use of pattern games, scentwork and confidence games
- Focus & Disengagement skills
- Value of scentwork for building confidence
- Use of long-lines
Gundog
Gundog workshop introduces the use of gundog skills to benefit species-specific behaviours and to allow gundog breeds to fulfill their natural drive. These are sessions for the pet gundog and are not designed for those who want to compete in this competitively. These workshops can help with retrieval issues, recall, lead walking, resource guarding and more, although if aggression or severe guarding is an issue please mention this beforehand.
In this workshop we go through;
- use of place training for impulse control
- different type of gundog dummies
- use of a whistle and directional cues
- shaping the retrieve
- different types of retrieve
- incorporation into walks
Scentwork
COMING SOON
Fast Fire Focus (Lead walking & Recall)
COMING SOON
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