Lifeskills & Connection

with Kay Laurence

Monthly weekend Lifeskills Workshop
for dogs over 6 months old

These are orientated around teaching you and your dogs how to live together with the least amount of stress - in a true Wag More Bark Less environment! We teach:

parking your dog
the safety protocol that enables mutual relaxation

walking together
walk your dog anywhere with ease and lay down the basics for free running in the future

greeting protocols
meeting your dog’s needs to reduce jumping up, learning to “walk on by”.

learning to play
enjoying quality activities with your dog with safety rules

Lifeskills workshops give your dog lots of opportunities to practice their skills in different situations, and also for you to learn how to manage your dog.

This 4 hour learning opportunity is ideal for assessment and gaining experience in a range of strategies to manage high energy dogs.

The Connection Builder Weekend

with Kay Laurence

In need of some connection: majority of behaviour and interaction is good, but one or two areas in need of repair, learning to watch the world go by and not add a running commentary. Paying attention to the small details.

Connection with our dogs is a wonderful feeling but there are times when the demands of our  worlds collide and we feel the connection is anything but perfect. Our dogs do not understand why they have to give up chasing a squirrel, and we do not understand why they will not be quiet. Connection is about learning how the dog sees the world and showing them that living in our world is not always about giving up the good things, we have a wealth of really great things we can enjoy with them.

The Connection Builder Weekend is learning about your dog through many activities, both energising and thoughtful, that deepen the connection through understanding. Finding the balance in your relationship and being in tune with each other. Exploring fun-credits we can give the dog for the compromises they need to make to live in our world.

Suitable for anyone who wants to develop a better relationship. Where life goes along pretty well, but you feel there is something that could be enjoyed more, or a few cracks that need to be filled. No major stresses but perhaps some irritations that could do with removing.

We have the resources that allow dogs who may become stressed around other dogs to train in a safe and secure area.

Recall Workshop

with Kay Laurence

We all have a dream of taking our dogs for stress free, relaxing walks. The dog cruising the countryside smells, popping to and fro to re-connect with us and smiling faces when we return. Often we end up more tense, returning shattered from the stress and wonder why we bothered? Relaxing it ain’t.

If you have an essentially social dog, that perhaps sees “add a friend” as a lifetime career, or even the dog that regards every scent as a hunting challenge then this is the ideal workshop to work on your training, and perception of a recall. Setting up the basic skills, reading the environment and anticipating success.

This is NOT a workshop for dogs that have anxieties about strange dogs or people, but this would be ideal for new dogs or puppies in preparation of free running. If the weather is suitable there will be opportunity to work outside, please dress suitably.

Please bring a favourite toy or two for this day plus oodles of smelly food.