Our Manners and Obedience Class Group Training is designed for a young or adolescent dog that is impulsive or lacks manners and obedience.  This is an ideal course once you graduate puppy school as you not only get a taste of several courses, but you get the basics to understand how to get a well rounded dog.

(Fear aggressive or aggressive and reactive dogs are to do the reactive course.) A lot of young dogs coming out of chain puppy schools lack the ability to control impulses and the parents have not been taught this either which leads to rude dogs that can eventually end up in a serious state of reactivity - this course is designed to try and prevent this and give the humans the tools to stop it.

To be able to teach dogs - like kids a certain level of control is needed to be able to shape the behaviours required.  We use a mixture of both control halters, food and voice and touch to achieve this.  Food is for shaping only and only at certain times.  If your dog has not done a puppy school and learnt the basics then please let the trainer know so we can show you how to shape the appropriate behaviours with food first.

 The course is $350 for the 8 weeks.

For most dog parents few realise the implications of not doing early intervention and teaching young.  By the time they realise there is an issue the behaviour and corresponding neural connection are established and will take time to undo.  It can also be traumatic if they have a strong dog or have been given the wrong advice.

 

I have over 40'000 hrs experience handling dogs for well over a decade.  This course has been born out of the fact of the volume of young dogs I am seeing in my aggressive and reactive courses and it needs to stop - there is absolutely no need for a dog to be like this.  My job is to teach you dog - in a manner that does not use fear but does enforce boundaries in a mutually trusting and respectful relationship.  But like kids they will push back - they will have spectacular tantrums - but will come out the other end a much better canine citizen..

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You also have the ability to do an add on in home lesson during the course only for just $97 to help you at home.

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So what doe the course involve?  This course borrows techniques from other disciplines like our Mental health assistance dogs and reactivity and recall courses.

1. We teach the dogs how to regulate their own behaviour without being told to.

2. The dogs will learn basic commands without the use of food.

3. The dogs will learn trust exercises so as to not make poor choices but deflect to their parents first.

4. The dogs will learn how to voluntarily disengage from a target of desire without being told too

5. The dogs will learn how to voluntarily focus on their human without being instructed too

6. The dogs will learn the application of boundary controls with doorways and visitors in the home.

7. The dogs will learn the appropriate way to behave in a market style environment.

8. The humans will learn how to talk dog and apply themselves as leaders in all of these situations and more.

9.  The humans will learn how to engage their dog out and about to be able to have an interesting walk rather than a boring one.

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