Toys – Developing Cooperation and Play

by Amanda Dougherty | Jan 22, 2024

Do you have a dog that chases the ball, yet won’t bring it back? Plays keep away with toys? Tugs but won’t let go? Bites you instead of the tug? Obsesses over toys, yet won’t listen to a single thing you say? Is your dog so high in drive for toys that he can’t think? Or do you just want to channel that prey drive right from the beginning and add the attitude your dog has for tugging or chasing toys to the obedience ring?

If so, this class is for you!

Spaces In Between

by Amanda Dougherty | Dec 21, 2023

This is a class about preparing our dogs for the competition or seminar environment.

Shaping a Fast and Furious Retrieve

by Melissa Breau | Aug 31, 2023

Want a strong, motivated retrieve of the dumbell and a good foundation for utility exercises? Join me as I break down how to create your reinforcement (toy skill of “switch”), and then how to create a firm hold, the end skill in the complex retrieve chain.