Energy Classes, Fitness & Movement

Work, Rest & Play

with Kay Laurence

Activity training is a wonderful route to teaching your dog to control their energy: to run with a burst and to contain power for precision. These are exactly the skills we need to teach all dogs for everyday life. To know when to let the happiness go and run for fun, play with the toys, run for the ball, tug on the tuggy, but contain their enthusiasm when you are holding that cup of tea and when your less than sturdy friend visits.

In this class many different types of energy management, through activities, play and resting  are explored:

Using your own innate energy to communicate to the dog. The non-verbal language that dogs understand easily. Exploring how your energy affects the dog.

Giving support and coaching whilst your dog learns movement for fitness, balance, stamina and confidence. Building the connection through the teaching: cavaletti for movement, egg-agility for balance and core strength, sports equipment for fitness and trust and dog-pilates (ideal for older dogs) for maintaining every day skills.

Working with other dogs and people in a class. Using their energy to your benefit and teaching your dog when to ignore their energy. A vital part of living in a socially orientated world.

Finding the right outlet for the excess energy and building control and understanding at the same time.

Many, many tasty treats, selection of toys always necessary. Sports shoes may be helpful but running is not expected.

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.

Nosework for Fun

with Kay Laurence

We don't have to teach dogs how to use their noses - they can already do that with exceptional skill. Nosework is intensely interesting for the dogs and ensures a well relaxed stress-free sleep on the way home.

The exciting part is teaching your dog how to search in specific patterns and let you know what they have found. We can teach dogs to find substances - the most intoxicating is vanilla or peppermint, we can teach them to recognise people from samples and match different substances together.

Depending on the weather we may be able to enjoy some outdoor tracking. We learn to see the world through the dog's eyes, oops nose!

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