What's happening this week?
Reactivity
This week’s focus in the Reactivity Class will be all about decompression and building our dog’s confidence at home, so none on the exercises require training ahead of time! So you can use this week to keep practicing the previous week’s exercises.
Things to have ready if you are attending the Friday Evening Workshop
Cardboard box (sides should be lower than your dog’s elbows- can cut down in needed)
Random recycling you save up, for example: empty paper towel/tp rolls, empty plastic bottles, newspaper or packing paper, small empty paper/cardboard boxes (like pasta boxes, etc).
Kibbles or small bite sized treats (will be using a bit, so if you feed kibble you can just save a 1/2 cup or so of their meal)
A older towel (hand or small bath towel- a towel you don’t mind your dog messing up)
we have a webinar (so talking not working) on what comes next with our reactivity training, we will talk about how to set your training session working around triggers for success. Diving into the importance of understanding thresholds, how to read your dog, and what to focus on when you head out to work on reactivity.
Foundations
Tuesday Morning we will meet with a group of young puppies (around 6 months and under) and we will be seeing where all these puppies are at so there are no exercises you need to work on ahead of time.
For those who have been participating in foundations so far, keep practicing the exercises from the previous classes! As you look at the calendar for upcoming classes the foundations continue, but we start to break into categories to take our focus, so Cooperative Care is going to be all about using some of our shaping games we started working on like the box game, and taking that style of training to help our dogs get more comfortable with things they might not like (toe nail trimming, brushing, etc) The engagement classes are about taking our foundations and using play & engagement to start taking our training to work around distractions!
The Friday evening agility handling currently only has one person RSVP’d so that class is likely to be canceled for now.
Fit Dog Class: Just a reminder, you do NOT need to have all the fancy equipment to take the class!!! You can do all of the exercises we work on together on the ground, and I will be giving you pointers and suggestions on what things you can use you might already have to add to the exercises. If you really get into it and want to buy stuff you see in class what I use, but you can do all the exercises without them to start!
