In-Person
Workshops & Seminars
Take your dog training to the next level with practical, hands-on workshops and seminars designed to help you better understand your dog and build real-world skills.
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Each session focuses on a specific topic, giving you useful tools and techniques you can put into practice right away.
Crazy Canine WorkshopÂ
This 45 minute workshop is designed for excitable dogs who may behave impulsively or struggle to focus.
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You can expect to learn exercises to regain your dogs attention when they are distracted, begin teaching them how to think through situations and control their impulses better, how to keep focus for longer periods of time and learn how to settle down when nothing specific is being asked of them.
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Each dog will receive direct feedback and coaching tailored to their needs.
Puppy Manners & Socialization
Workshop
This one hour workshop, for puppies under 8 months old, will get your puppy meeting new humans, teach you how to successfully introduce your puppy to other dogs on leash and monitor body language, and have some fun with novel items that can help them build confidence having new experiences!
Nervous Nelly Workshop
This 45 minute workshop is tailored to dogs who lack confidence and are nervous in new situations, around other people or dogs.
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This workshop is NOT suited to dogs who are reactive (who bark or lunge at people or dogs).
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We will cover how to adjust criteria for nervous dogs, handling techniques and exercises to reduce nervousness in new environments, and interacting with novel items to celebrate small successes and build confidence in your dog.
Reliable Recall
Workshop
This 45 minute workshop will teach you everything you need to know to improve consistency with your recall.
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We will create good handler habits, increased responsiveness from your dog, and help your dog get excited to come back to you in even the most distracting environments.
Resource Guarding Seminar
$80 + GST
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This one and a half hour seminar will teach you everything you need to know to understand the causes and purpose of resource guarding in dogs.
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We will go over how to safely and effectively handle a dog who is actively guarding, and go over multiple exercises to reduce guarding behaviour, but also the theory behind how and why they work.
Reactivity & Aggression Seminar
$80 + GST
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This one and a half hour seminar will teach you everything you need to know to understand the causes and purpose of reactivity and aggression in dogs, including how to avoid it in young dogs.
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We will go over how to read dog body language to fully understand their emotional state and stress levels, but also learn how to resolve reactivity (to any trigger) and how to handle different situations while training a reactive dog.
This brand new workshop is tailored to preparing your dog to take the CKC Canine Good Neighbour test or preparing your dog for Therapy Dog Work and testing in the future. This class is suited for confident dogs that have even temperament, have taken classes before with a foundation of basic obedience skills and do not bark or lunge at people or dogs.
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Suitable indicators include: responses that are not fearful or aggressive, friendliness towards dogs and strangers and safe easy handler control.
