Home Obedience
for Adult Dogs & Puppies
Classes in Puppy Manners and Home Obedience
are offered by Julene Cooper on Tuesdays, by Heather Ringwood
and Emma Holly of Happy Dog Institute on Fridays and Sundays,
and by Shannon Ahern and Dezi Greig on Saturdays. Read about
our instructors on the About Us page.
Private lessons or board & train for any age are available
with Shannon Ahern and Dezi Greig, Fido’s Farm’s
resident trainers.
Julene Cooper, Heather Ringwood or Emma Holly, our Home Obedience
Class Instructors, also offer private lessons.
To contact any of the instructors call Fido’s Farm
at
(360) 866-8347 or e-mail fidosfarm@fidosfarm.com
Saturday afternoons with Shannon
Ahern & Dezi Greig, resident trainers at Fido’s
Farm
Shannon & Dezi will help you develop good leadership skills
for your dog using the positive reinforcement approach taught
in our popular and successful Fido’s Foundations program
in our boarding and daycare kennel. They offer a full array
of classes from beginning puppies to older dogs who need improved
behaviors and communication.
Fridays & Sundays with
Heather Ringwood & Emma Holly of Happy Dog Institute
Happy Dog Institute uses 100% positive reinforcement using
clicker/marker training. Our goal is to help you build a solid
foundation for your dog - and have FUN doing it. Happy Dog
Institute strives to help you establish a training relationship
with your dog to get rid of undesirable behaviors (like jumping
and pulling on the leash) and enhance the behaviors you love
in your dog. Through our classes and private training programs,
you will be able to build a solid foundation for your dog
to advance in any training venue - both at home and out in
the world. All classes are limited to 6 dogs for optimum learning
and one on one instruction time.
Happy Dog Institute Classes include:
Fun Foundation 1: Positive Reinforcement Introduction
Fun Foundation 2: Building Basics for Success
Fun Foundation 3: Advanced Obedience with Distractions and
Duration
Puppy Manners & Socialization with a Behavior Consultant
Agility Skill Building and Foundation
Structured Playtime & Recall with a Behavior Consultant
Special Topics in Training & Behavior:
Managing a Grouchy Dog
See Spot Come
Tuesday Evenings with Julene Cooper of Family Dog Center
Puppy Manners and Obstacles
Class
For puppies under 5 months of age when class begins &/or
toy breeds
under 6 months. (Please note that this age range is flexible,
depending on the puppy's size, confidence level, mental maturity,
etc.
If you are uncertain as to whether or not this is the best
class for
your puppy, email us.)
Puppy socialization & obedience geared for young pups
with short
attention spans. Obedience portion of this class includes
walking on
leash, sit & down, sit for greeting & come. Obstacles
include puppy-
sized agility equipment for confidence building & fun.
Your entire
family is encouraged to attend all of the classes with your
dog.
However, very young children and/or children with very short
attention
spans may find the discussion and demonstration format of
the
Orientation difficult. Do not bring puppies the first week.
Beginning Home Obedience Class
For dogs over 5 months of age. (Please note that this age
range is
flexible, depending on the puppy's/dog's size, confidence
level,
mental maturity, etc. If you are uncertain as to whether or
not this
is the best class for your puppy/dog, email us.)
Lots of work on basic obedience & control, including
controlled
walking, sit, down & stand stay, come, sit for greeting,
go to a rug &
lie down. For dogs with little or no formal training. Even
if you have
done quite a bit of training with your dog at home or through
another
training school, you'll probably still want this class to
get you
started.
Advanced Home Obedience Class
For dogs over 6 months of age who have successfully completed
Beginning Home Obedience. Class works on basic exercises with
food,
toy, people & dog distractions in preparation for off-leash
control.
Drop on recall & stays out of sight are introduced. Bring
your dog &
current training equipment the first week.
Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Practice
& Prep
For dogs who have successfully completed Advanced Home Obedience.
Class continues to practice basic exercises in preparation
for the CGC
test, plus off-leash control, drop on recall and stays out
of sight.
Julene also teaches Rally Obedience and Therapy Dog.
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