A 5 week class

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First class: Without your dog, this is a classroom session addressing how dogs learn in an environment with increased distractions. This class would also be appropriate for those dogs from other programs with a good understanding of positive reinforcement training techniques. 

Class Content: Learning fun life skills
Now that you and your pup have finished a Basic Class in Bend, Oregon, it’s time for the next step—learning skills and applying them to everyday life situations. Enjoy the ease of having your dog understand a larger skill-set of words, behaviors, and manners. This five-week class works with building and refining basic skills with increased distance, distractions, and duration, working off-leash (if ready), focusing on your specific goals, and impulse control. Plus:

1. An overview of how dogs learn in an environment with increased distractions.
2. Down and sit, from a distance, and “Relaxed Down” while you read a book, enjoy a coffee and the paper, or just hang out at home.
3. Stay and come, with distractions and distance, around other dogs or tempting objects.
4.  Front, over, and back, placing your dog around you for safe navigation, for walking around town, jogging, riding a bike.
5. Spot, teaching your dog to go to a mat or dog bed and lie quietly when someone comes to the door.
6. Target work, for building new skills and a variety of tricks for fun.

Fee: $120