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Puppy Manners
Start your puppy off on the right foot with positive, reward-based behavioral shaping. Focus skills building is introduced with early obedience shaping. All students are motivationally crate trained and conditioned to coat brushing, nail clipping, and teeth and ear exam and cleaning. Chewing and puppy biting are also addressed in this introductory course. Age-appropriate early socialization and environmental conditioning is introduced to build your puppy's confidence, mental development, and social skills.
Dogs are exposed to challenging and intriguing environments with stimulating sights, noises, smells, textures, and weather elements that the companion dog must confidently manage in the real world. Urban and rural environmental experiences can include variable surfaces and heights, variable noises, crowds, traffic, and exposure to domestic animals.
Dogs are regularly exposed to and demonstrate confidence in challenging and stimulating environments that include pedestrians, crowds, small children, other dogs, domestic animals, motor vehicles, and machinery. Students are exposed to a variety of business and residential environments such as retail shops, large malls, airports, special needs residential facilities, and police and fire facilities. Our socialization activities can include venues such as busy urban streets, airports, equipment storage yards, schoolyards and playing fields, bus and train stations, firing ranges, nursing homes, building construction sites, forest wilderness, public safety facilities, demolition operations, special needs institutional settings, logging operations with heavy machinery, warehouses, gravel pits and rock quarries, livestock areas, retail stores, the local swimming hole, hotels and apartment buildings, and crowded public events such as street fairs and festivals.
Beginning, intermediate and advanced tracking and trailing in wilderness and urban environments. A challenging training experience for those considering future Search and Rescue training and deployment, or for "civilian" owners seeking an exceptionally educational and stimulating outdoor activity with their dog.
Focus skills building is an integral part of beginning obedience training. Beginning Obedience functional obedience commands typically include heel, sit, down, wait, leave it, crate, break, give, quiet, and neutrality to collars, leash, and working harness. Intermediate Obedience introduces off-lead obedience and the recall. Advanced Obedience includes proofing all obedience under distraction, distance, and duration.
AKC Canine Good Citizen ("CGC") Certificate The top choice of responsible dog owners! Learn all of the exercises required for the AKC Canine Good Citizen Certificate, including accepting a friendly stranger, handling by a stranger, walking in crowds, sit and down in place, coming when called, obedience under distraction, and supervision by a stranger. CGC coursework is an outstanding introduction to obedience training and handling for those considering more advanced obedience training.
Dogs enrolled in Schutzhund BH Readiness coursework will be foundation trained in exercises required for the Schutzhund BH degree, including heel, sit, sit in motion, down, down in motion, long down under distraction, right and left turns through crowds, and the recall and finish. Also includes obedience under examination, social behavior, traffic sureness, and exposure to gunfire.
Assistance Dog Certification
Skills to be taught are determined by the handler's service dog needs, including
mobility assistance; wheelchair assistance; hearing impairment assistance; and psychological/psychiatric
assistance. The critical nature of this service training requires intensive team training, necessitating a significant
commitment of time and effort by the owner/handler to attain in-house NorthWest K9 Assistance Dog standards
of training, performance, and certification.
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