At Lifestyle Dog Training is it my goal to create and provide training courses that address a variety of canine disciplines, from attention, to recall training, to basic obedience, to sports.
The following programs/courses are offered by Lifestyle Dog Training:
The Real Life Skills Series: These 6wk courses (levels white belt through black belt) teach obedience skills for everyday life, but also lay the foundation for future dog sport activities should you choose to persue them. Each level builds on the previous level so that by the time your dog earns his Black Belt in Obedience, he will have a well rounded education.
Real Life Skills 101 .... beginner obedience training for "real life"
Real Life Skills 201 ..... level 2 adds more challenges & begins to introduce sports foundation exercises
Real Life Skills 301 .... advanced training
Reel Dog Training: this course teaches popular skills required by dogs working in the film and advertising industries. If you've ever thought that you might like your dog to be in the 'biz, this course will give you insight about the business and teach your dog the skills he needs to be a good audition candidate. Dogs coming into Reel Dog Training should already have basic obedience skills.
Canine Musical Freestyle: Canine Musical Freestyle is an extention of obedience training. It combines traditional obedience exercises such as heeling, with equine dressage like moves such as half passes & marching, and fancy trick moves. Freestyle is performed to music and routines give the impression of dog and handler as dance partners, each sharing an equal role in the presentation of moves. Freestyle classes are divided into three categories: (1) The Parallel Moves; (2) The Circular Moves; and (3) The Trick Moves. In order to be fluent in musical freestyle it is necessary to learn the moves in all three categories. The sessions are broken into categories in order to make it easier to learn the various standard freestyle moves. Each of these sessions is 6wks
Heelwork To Music: This 4wk course is related to Canine Musical Freestyle, but focuses on heeling and heeling variations. Heeling is an important discipline for both traditional obedience training and musical freestyle. This course will teach you how to get focused precision with an animated attitude from the dog. You will learn pattern heeling on both sides of the handler, left and right turns, about turns, pivots, and more. You will learn techniques for keeping the dog at a nice trot rather than fall into pacing. This course is valualbe for both the musical freestyle enthusiast and the obedience competitor.
Puppy Einstein... Awaken the Genius In Your Puppy!: This 6wk course teaches puppies basic life skills obedience. Puppies will learn the obedience basics of attention, sits, downs, polite leash walking, come when called, go to your mat, leave it, targeting, stays, and a few tricks.
Puppy Gym and Games / Senior Kindergarten: This 6wk course uses fun games to reinforce the basic obedience skills your puppy learned in Puppy Einstein. Puppy Games include Seek & Find; Musical Mats; Rubber Duckie Retrieval; Recall Races; Simon Says; Disc-0-mania; Barrell Racing; Puppy Rally-O Racing, and more.
They will also be introduced to jumping (2" hurdles), walking the plank, going through tunnels, the wobble board, and going over 'the hill'. These are all baby sized versions of agility equipment and will give puppies a safe environment to gain confidence around new and novel obstacles.
Puppy Gym uses baby sized safe obstacles for the puppies to go over, through, and around. This lays the foundation for future agility training should you decide to persue that, & gives puppies confidence around new and novel things in their environment.
Trick 'n Treat! (Clicker Tricks): In this 6wk trick training course you will learn the theory of clicker training, and will combine lure/reward and operant conditioning techniques to teach your dog a variety of fun parlour tricks.
/Recreational Fun-gility: This 4wk course is non-competitive agility. It does not teach competition handling skills. This course is pure fun. You will have the opportunity to learn various obstacles and put together steeplechase courses with your dog. Dogs should be at least ONE YEAR of age before taking this course. It is a great way to learn and practice obstacle courses for dogs sport demo's should you wish to participate in such events.
Fiesty Fido's! No Chase/Boundary Training: Do you have a door dasher; cat chaser; car chaser; dog chaser?? Dogs have a natural instinct to chase things that move, but this natural tendency can get them into trouble in our human world. Dogs generally also have poor impulse control which also gets them into trouble. Teach your dog the skills he needs to develop self imposed self control, and refrain from chasing everything that moves.
Difficult Dogs Workshops: Is your dog lunging and barking at other dogs? Fearful or shy? Or over stimulated by his environment? These 4wk sessions are designed to teach you the skills you need to help your difficult dog become a well mannered canine citizen. We will discuss safety, management, and training tools to give you confidence (eg: head halters). You will learn about your dogs comfort zone, triggers, how to reward alternatives, handling techniques, and about perception modification. Is your dog choosing his responses or reacting to his environment. These workshops will not CURE your dog in 4wks, but will teach you the skills you need in order to affect a positive change. Dogs that are highly aggressive or who need training attention beyond the scope of these sessions, will be referred to a behaviourist. Our main concern is for the welfare of you and your dog, and if we feel that your dog needs more than this course can offer, we will refer you out.
