Course work – Putting those foundation skills together, distance handling mechanics, promoting obstacle focus and independence in your dog, learning to read course lines, building teamwork between you and your dog for success around a course. (pre-requisite: Hoopers Foundations)

Learn the foundation skills for Hoopers, an agility style sport that includes hoops, barrels, and tunnels. Introduction to equipment, build independence in your dog, work on distance handling mechanics. Dogs must be reliable off leash around other dogs, be responsive to handler, and have a duration stay. (pre-requisite: Lifeskills 3 or equivalent or previous advanced class experience.)

Teach your dog to perform tricks to entertain you and your friends. Tricks are a great way to encourage creativity and builds on the skills your dog already knows giving them that WOW factor. Flexible class syllabus to suit the interests of the students. Tracks include general trick titles, specialty trick titles, stunt dog (competitive tricks), functional tricks for cooperative care and everyday life, various training techniques like shaping, luring, capturing, and mimicking. If you are looking for high-energy and flashy or thoughtful and precise this class has something for every dog and handler team. (Pre-requisite: Lifeskills 2 or equivalent or previous advanced class experience)

Is your dog bored and finding inappropriate ways to make their own fun during the day? Tired of training the same old skills? Need ideas to keep your dog busy and happy? Does your dog have an instinct that you need to find an outlet for? Want to add fitness to improve your dog’s overall mental and physical wellbeing? This is the class for you. We will approach the dog as a whole and provide training ideas that address all the senses and supports their physical, mental, and social needs. Every session of the class brings new learning that is different than previous classes. Topics could include fitness, brain games and problem solving, movement puzzles, alternative training techniques, DIY enrichment puzzles, scent games, cooperative care, useful tricks for everyday living, and the list goes on. (Pre-requisite: Lifeskills 2 or equivalent or previous advanced class experience)

Puppy Preschool is a great way to begin your dog's socialization and training. Accepting dogs from 10 weeks to 16 weeks, this program is designed to help you and your dog build confidence in one another. We'll help cover the basics of what you should be doing at home, early stages of training, and exposing your dog to new experiences in a controlled environment.

Once you have completed Puppy Preschool you will be on your way and ready to enroll in LifeSkills 1, with the "big dogs"!

Keep your dog’s body and mind fit this winter playing fitness and enrichment games. This class will introduce small space training ideas to keep your dog busy when the weather keeps you inside. Fitness is important for physical wellbeing. Have fun with sit, down, and stand on platforms, build body awareness with targeting and movement puzzles. Mental well-being is of equal importance especially when your dog is stuck inside. Brain and scent games will be introduced as well as some great enrichment ideas to tap into your dog’s instincts giving them an appropriate outlet for those natural behaviors.