CONFIDENT CANINES LIFE SKILLS CLASSES
For any age of dog. These classes run in 6-week blocks. 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.
They run on Mondays at 6:30pm and Wednesdays at 7:30pm at two different venues in Leyland, 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!
If you wish, whilst attending these classes you can 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.
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 for dogs that have had foundation level training in a group training environment.
Dogs MUST be able to cope in a group environment.
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!
If you have a dog that hasn't completed any group training sessions before or if you are unsure as to whether your dog has the basic skills necessary to be able to attend these classes, we are more than happy to arrange a 1-2-1 training session to bring you up to speed.
Upcoming Start Dates:
MONDAYS 6:30pm (St Ambrose Hall, PR25 4XA)
- FULL
WEDNESDAYS 7:30pm (Orthodox Church Hall, PR25 1TA)
- FULL
£80 per 6-week block.
Because many people choose to attend multiple blocks whilst working through the Life Skills Awards, we are operating with a waiting list - which is currently quite long!
CONTACT US if you would like to be added to the waiting list.
