Basic Manners
This 6 (six) week course will meet every week in Arcata (click to booking link for specific date and times, address provided upon registration).
This course has fun, easy to follow lessons with simple homework handouts to review during the week. Each week comes with a “challenge” that is both useful in real life, and a great opportunity to train things you might not have thought you could.
Our class focuses on:
• Focus around distractions.
• Down Stays.
• Calm greetings of people and other dogs.
• Recall (coming when called…the first time).
• Loose Leash Walking (when to let them sniff and when they need to focus on you).
• Sit Stay.
As well as learning how to train your dog to be calm and quiet when guests are over, when you’re working from home or at the office, on a zoom meeting and strategies for those neighborhood walks that have been such a challenge!
Prerequisites: Dog must be current on core vaccines. No age limit for dogs. Handlers under 18 must be accompanied by a legal guardian.
Email noseyk9@gmail.com with any questions or click “BOOK” anywhere on this page to sign up today!
This class is outdoor during summer months and indoors when the days get shorter.
REACTIVE TO RELAXED
This is a 6 week class for dogs with big feelings based on Leslie McDevitt’s book under the same name. This class is offered on Sundays and takes a break during the rainy season (Typically offered June through September).
Reactive to relaxed is a great course for dogs who struggle with hyper-arousal or “big feelings” around other dogs or people or the environment.
Some examples of behaviors we will cover are:
Default behaviors your dog can practice when they aren’t sure what else to do (this helps with attention seeking behaviors such as demand barking, and more)
Focus on you instead of distractions
Pattern games to create relaxation, trust and empower your dog to make better behavioral choices around distractions or triggers
Prerequisites: None, but basic obedience is helpful.
Email noseyk9@gmail.com to ask any questions, or simply click “BOOK” anywhere on this page to be taken to the registration form.
Puppy Socialization Clss
Training puppies is an investment in the future. In this class, we start a foundation for a well balanced dog by thoughtfully socializing them during their critical socialization period. We introduce puppies to a number of novel sights, sounds and smells each week, as well as group play and basic obedience.
We also discuss ways to problem solve common puppy raising hurdles like mouthing, potty training, jumping, and chewing.
Puppy Socialization Class is best for puppies between 2 and 5 months of age.
This class is 4 weeks long and meets every Sunday. All puppies attending must have 2 sets of core vaccines, and a clean fecal test result within 7 days of the first class.
To register click the button below.
Scent Detection Classes
Do you have a nosey canine? Then you’ve come to the right place! In our scent detection classes, you and your dog learn to put their talented noses to work by using positive reinforcement. This course use the target odors of anise, clove, birch and cypress. Your dog will learn a clear, reliable alert to these target odors so that you can compete in AKC and National Association of Canine Scent Work (NACSW)
Dogs who do best in this course are able to eat food eagerly in public and can be crated or otherwise secured in your vehicle between runs.
This class is great for all levels of trainers, dogs and puppies.
In this course, we have Beginning Scent Detection; Intermediate Scent Detection; and Advanced. Each level runs approximately 1 hour per class.
These classes are ongoing.
Walk With Me!
In this 4 week class you’ll join us on outings in Arcata neighborhoods, and dog friendly businesses when available. Dogs will practice what they’ve learned in Basic Manners while taking their skills to the next level!
This class meets every Sunday at 3:30 and lasts one hour. Dogs must have taken a Basic Manners Class or equivalent.
Click the button above to enroll or email for more information.
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