2023 Wrap up!
Thank you all so much for another year of The Hiker Pup Academy!
I struggle with this time of the year knowing I will have to say goodbye to some of my cadets who feel ready to fly solo on your dog training adventures. I hope that you all have enjoyed the year’s program! I know I have really enjoyed following your progress. Please know even if you are not choosing to return that I am always in your corner and if you need me, reach out. Either by email dawn@thehikerpup.com or message me on IG, (be sure to let me know you were in the Academy).
Past students are always on my list to be able to schedule one on one zoom calls even if you don’t sign back up. Email me Dawn@thehikerpup.com and I can send you a scheduling link and those are $75 per 30 minutes.
Obvilously I want you all to come back since I love working with you all, so please never feel like that’s weird, stay as long as you like 🙂 And PLEASE do not feel bad or be embarrassed if you feel like you didn’t take advantage of the program like you wanted to. Life happens and it is not always easy to stay with it. I will never judge you for that whether you come back again or not!
There are some changes coming! All I hope for the better. But one big change that’s to make my life a lot easier is moving forward the programs will be on an annual subscription or monthly subscription plan, which means moving forward, at the end of next year’s program if you don ‘t rejoin you will have to cancel or your subscritption will automatically renew. This is so I no longer have to build new websites each year and since this update is taking SO MUCH work I don’t want to have to do that each year and instead can focus on creating MORE content. The website is going to be SO MUCH EASIER for you to navigate the courses! Each course will have main overviews where you can pick and choose what subject you want to dive into, or you can just start from the beginning and it will keep track of what you have done as each lesson has an option to hit a “completed” button so you know what you’ve already worked on. If you run the courses in order it will just keep bringing you to the next lesson as you finish. I’ve added a MORE exercises, PDFs and resources to the Reactive Dog Class.
Easier Navigation!
Each Course is grouped by subject to make it easy to find what you are looking for! And the website can track what you have already worked on if you click the “completed” button so you will always know where you left off.
More clearly defined exercises
Complete with Video demos and/or easy to follow written instructions, downloadable PDFS and additional resources.
What’s not changing:
Prices. Even though my costs associated with running the website have gone up pretty substantially I am choosing not to pass that along and hope instead that I can get enough folks interested in the Academy to keep myself gainfully employed enough to still make a decent living. We will still have live zoom classes, reactivity support groups and a trainers mentoring group if there is enough interest in that.
If you plan to return for 2024:
All you need to do is either register again between Feb 1st- 18th
If you have any questions feel free to email, message me or post on FB.
If you have enjoyed the experience and you want to help me out:
Please share on your socials about your experience!
The more folks who join up each year the more resources I have to be able to keep making great content to keep offering!
The more folks that join up the more fun the live group zoom classes!
Email or message me a testimonial I can share.
Tag me on IG posts and stories so I can share them (I can only share if your account is public so if you tag me and I don’t share it that’s why, you can still share with your friends 🙂).