Basic Obedience - May 22

Course Length: 6 hours (1 hour a week for 6 weeks)

Price: $210 plus gst

Pre-requisites: Dogs must be 6 months or older by class start date

Certification: Pets Paw Pad’s Learning Academy Basic Obedience Certificate of Completion

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will focus on all the basics that will help you help your dog become a model citizen. You want your dog to have mastered the basics, and this class will give you the language both you and your dog can understand.

In this class you and your dog will learn or refresh the commands of sit, down, stay, come/recall, take it and drop it. A large part of the focus during this class will be loose leash walking.

This class will prepare your dog for success out in the real world. We'll go through all the basics with different levels of distractions so they're ready to go from class to practice in the world with you.

We will also practice turns and movement with loose leash walking to make your relationship with your dog better and easier, and to make walking safe and enjoyable for the whole family.

By the end of this course, you and your dog will be able to:

Demonstrate various behaviours including:

• Name recognition

• Sit

• Hand touch

• Massage

• Collar grabs

• Down

• “It’s Your Choice”

• Drop it/take it

• Sit & down stay

• Recall

• Loose-leash walking

• Addressing behaviour issues that arise during class

THIS CLASS'S TRAINER: CARRIE DOIRON

Carrie Doiron's roots are in Leduc and her passion is for helping our community and their dogs.

Carrie is is a skilled and talented trainer, and is completing both her DBTMc certification and preparing for the internationally-recognized CPDT-KA certification.

Carrie has grown with Paws Pet Pad and helped it become the educational and enrichment-based positive and force-free facility it is today. Under her watch and guidance, new daycare programs are rolling out, boarding enrichment is being taken to a new level, and quality and diversity of programming and opportunities is just blowing uptoday.

If you have any questions please email askthetrainer@pawspetpad.ca