CONFIDENT CANINES LIFE SKILLS CLASSES

For any age of dog.  These classes run in 6-week rolling blocks. Priority is given to those who have attended our Puppy Foundation Course.

During these sessions we work on a variety of relevant and important obedience related training topics.  You can attend for as many blocks as you wish, depending on what your training goals are.

The classes run on Mondays at 6:15pm and Wednesdays at 7:30pm at St Ambrose Hall in Leyland (PR25 4XA), each session lasting approximately one hour.

These classes allow you to improve on basic foundation level skills, enabling you to teach your dog even more important and valuable life skills to develop their focus, confidence and manners even further.  This helps to build the bond between dog and owner and most of all, you can have fun together!

During these classes, we work through our Confident Canines Life Skills Awards.  We created these awards so that owners have something tangible to measure their progress against.  There are four levels of awards in total, each progressing on from the previous level of difficulty and skillset.  They are assessed informally during class time.

What sort of things do we teach during these classes?

Improving your dog’s focus:
   -  How to settle and be calm around distractions
   -  New behaviours and tricks to help your dog to engage with you around distractions
   -  How to behave around other dogs
   -  Greeting people in a controlled manner
   -  How to improve lead walking skills
   -  Road walking skills

Developing impulse control skills:
   -  Appropriate behaviour around food
   -  How to wait and be calm in different situations/scenarios 
   -  Sit stays and down stays with duration, distance and distractions
   -  Teaching a reliable leave command
   -  Adding impulse control to interactive games
   -  The emergency stop command

Building dog & owner bond:
   -  Interactive games to improve dog and owner bond
   -  How to train a reliable recall amongst other dogs and people
   -  The send to bed command
   -  A range of new fun training exercises to develop cognitive skills
   -  Teaching calmness during handling and grooming

Requirements

These classes are predominantly for dogs that have attended our Puppy Foundation Course. 

Dogs MUST be able to cope and learn in a group environment.  If your dog is uncomfortable in a group setting, these classes are not for you.

For your dog to be able to attend these classes, they should be able to settle in a group environment and focus on their owner when carrying out practical exercises.   We will teach you everything else!

We do occasionally allow others to join our classes, but to be eligible you need to be assessed via a one to one training session first.  This enables us to be sure that your dog is suited to group classes, and allows us to implement the foundation training skills necessary for you to integrate into class when you start.

£85 per 6-week block.

Because many people choose to attend multiple blocks whilst working through the Life Skills Awards, we are currently operating with a waiting list.

CONTACT US if you would like to be added to the waiting list.