9am-11:30am

Keep It Loopy: Effective, efficient training doesn’t just happen! Whether you have a new puppy or an adolescent dog who is just learning obstacles, this seminar will teach you and your pup strategies to help keep those “loops” clean! Appropriate for puppies 3 months to adulthood. 

1pm-5pm

Fluency and the 3Ds: Duration Behaviors in Agility Dogs

While agility is a game of speed, so many of the behaviors required in the sport contain duration components. Start line stays, stopped contacts, the table, and the teeter are all positions we require of the dog to maintain while we move past and away from them, needing them to stay until they are released. This workshop will address how we train for duration, distance, and distraction in the context of agility. Appropriate for dogs 6 months of age and older (only dogs over 12 months will be permitted to work on contacts.)

9am-5pm

Do It When I Cue It: Stimulus Control for Agility Dogs

Does your dog snatch toys out of your hands or of the floor? Does your dog constantly stare at you or your hands hoping to get a reward? Does he run around the ring diving into tunnels and taking jumps you haven't cued? Are you confused about marker cues and what they mean and when to use them? Most of the problems we face in agility training are solvable by getting our reinforcement of our bodies and helping our dogs understand when reinforcement is made available to them.

Do It When I Cue It is a seminar that  focuses on understanding Stimulus Control; how it differs from Impulse Control, why it’s important, how to obtain control (through positive reinforcement) of our toys and food rewards, and how we can use that newfound control to our advantage to help train our dogs in a way that will successfully transfer to the competition ring.

9am-4pm

Confident Canines: Sniffing, zooming, spinning, barking, scratching, disengaging, running out of the ring, rolling; all of these are behaviors that indicate our dogs are lacking understanding and confidence in the ring. Whether you’ve had these issues before and are wanting to avoid them with a new dog or you are struggling with them currently, this seminar is here to help! Confident Canines is about why our dogs experience ring stress, how we can avoid introducing stress into their experience, and how to combat that insecurity once it’s reared it’s ugly head. Dogs 6 months and up.