Critical Skills Workshops
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 off leash reliability, loose leash walking, and overall good manners.
Each Critical Skills Workshop includes four 1-hour group classes. The first class is an Intro Talk designed to help you understand how to achieve your desired results with your dog. During this session, we’ll introduce the core theories and training techniques that will be used throughout the Workshop. The subsequent classes will use various games and exercises that will equip you with the necessary tools to help your dog develop their skills to a moderate-to-advanced level.
Household Manners
The Household Manners Workshop 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 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.
Topics 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. Includes free Adventure Walks for the duration of your Workshop.
| Upcoming Start Dates | Time | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday June 12th | 7:15pm-8:15pm | Jen |
| Tuesday June 24th (no class July 1st) | 12:00pm-1:00pm | Kim |
Loose Leash Fundamentals
Our Loose Leash Fundamentals Workshop 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
- Getting into heel position
- Building value for being in heel position
- Leash respect
- Formal heel with different 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: $240+HST for 4-week Workshop. Includes free Adventure Walks for the duration of your Workshop.
| Upcoming Start Dates | Time | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday June 3rd | 6:00pm-7:00pm | Jen |
| Thursday June 19th (no class July 3rd) | 12:00pm-1:00pm | Kim |
| Wednesday June 25th (no class July 2nd) | 6:00pm-7:00pm | Kim |
Off Leash Fundamentals
Our Off Leash Fundamentals Workshop is designed to introduce the fundamental skill set your dog needs when off leash. We begin by establishing foundational skills: building engagement, respond to name, impulse control, disengage from distractions, Leave-It, and a Formal 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.
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Rank your dog’s top distractions
- Understand how to motivate your dog
- Increase your dog’s focus on you and calmness when in the presence of distractions
- Improve your dog’s impulse control to various triggers
- Teach your dog to Leave-It on command
- Recall your dog away from various distractions and distances
- Increase your control when your dog is off-leash
The Off 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: $240+HST for 4-week Workshop. Includes free Adventure Walks for the duration of your Workshop.
| Upcoming Start Dates | Time | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday June 10th (no class July 1st) | 7:15pm-8:15pm | Jen |
| Thursday June 26th (no class July 3rd) | 1:15pm-2:15pm | Kim |
