We are so fortunate today that there are so many accessible dog sports that can enrich our dogs' lives and bring us joy by building a deeper working relationship with our four legged friends.

Whether you'd like to do Agility, Obedience, Rally, Hoopers, nose work, Mantrailing, Breed Showing, any other dog sport or just have a dog trained to an advanced level of companion obedience, our Foundations for Dog Sports training will help set you up for success. 

 

Using a variety of brain games, we will challenge the dog to consciously work out what they have to do to earn a reward, work through frustration, control their emotions and adapt as the criteria changes and the task becomes more difficult. Your dog will become more resilient and try harder to offer the right behaviour. These skills will help your dog with motivation and confidence, to enhance its technical sport skills and will prepare your dog to listen and respond to your instructions in a highly distracting environment in a heightened state of arousal.

These foundation games and exercises are suitable for dogs of all ages, breeds, size and experience.

This training will help your dog to:

• manage its emotions and arousal levels, to maintain accuracy and motivation

• have the confidence to work at a distance from you and respond correctly to your cues

• build value for the work over and above any distractions

• have the resilience to recover quickly from failure

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