Our Critical Skills Workshops are intensive courses designed to help your dog develop the essential skills needed to become a well-mannered and well-rounded canine companion. These workshops focus on building fundamental skillsets such as remaining calm in the presence of distractions, overall good manners, loose leash walking, and to come to you when called.

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Household Manners uses a variety of training techniques to help prevent or stop a variety of common household manner issues. This includes how to manage your dog to prevent them from engaging in unwanted behaviours, shape desired behaviours to help your dog build understanding (e.g. impulse control games), and teach commands to help you trouble shoot when your dog has made the wrong decision (e.g. ‘drop-it’ or ‘leave-it’). Our ultimate goal is to equip you with the tools to teach your dog how to make good decisions on their own.

Skills Include:

• Jumping (when greeting people, when excited, for things, for attention…)
• Stealing food and items
• Barking (out the window, for attention, when they want something…)
• Impulse control games (food, doors, toys…)
• Place command
  
• “Leave-it” command
• “Drop-it” command
• No begging, chasing brooms or vacuums…

The Household Manners workshop includes four 1-hour group classes (including an Intro Talk) that take place at the same time every week at Tumblewood Canine. Maximum 4 dogs per workshop!

Price: $240+HST for 4-week workshop.

Loose Leash Fundamentals focuses on developing your dog’s loose leash walking skills. We begin by teaching your dog fundamental focus and engagement exercises, and progress towards walking on a loose leash in a low-distraction environment. We then slowly add difficulty by increasing distractions, and coach you on how to ensure successful loose leash walking out in the real world!

Skills Include:

• Focus and engagement games
• Leash respect
• Getting into and building value for being in heel position
• Loose leash walking past distractions
• Greeting people and dogs appropriately

The Loose Leash Fundamentals workshop includes four 1-hour group classes (including an Intro Talk) that take place at the same time every week at Tumblewood Canine. Maximum 4 dogs per workshop!

Price: $300+HST for 5-week workshop.

Recall Readiness is designed to teach your dog an emergency recall – to come to you immediately, at top speed, no matter what! We begin by establishing foundational skills: building connection, response to name, impulse control, disengage from distractions, Leave-It, and an Emergency Recall. We then add difficulty by increasing the distance between you and your dog, decreasing your dog’s distance from distractions, and increasing the level of distractions.

Skills Include:

• Ranking your dog’s top distractions
  
• Understanding how to motivate your dog
• Increasing your dog’s engagement with you
• Improving your dog’s impulse control to various triggers
• Teaching your dog to ‘Leave-It’ on command
• Teaching an Emergency Recall away from various distractions and distances

The Recall Readiness workshop includes four 1-hour group classes (including an Intro Talk) that take place at the same time every week at Tumblewood Canine. Maximum 4 dogs per workshop!

Price: $240+HST for 4-week workshop.

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