Setting you & your Dog Up for Success

To achieve the results that you want, we first need to set you and your dog up for success.

To  set you and you dog up for success, both you and your dog will need to know some basic foundation skills and be able to put them practice.  It's like a sports person who needs to learn the basic skills of the game and then practice them, before they can properly play their sport. You can't build a house without strong foundations!

In the initial orientation session, you'll be taught Foundation Skills, including:

• clicker mechanics
• using positive reinforcement
• observation
• capturing
• shaping
• cueing

Having these Foundation Skills lays the ground work, and will allow you to fully participate in training sessions.  They're simple to understand, easy to learn, and fun!  

Before progressing to specific training sessions, your dog will learn Foundation Skills:

• self-control
• give attention to handler
• targeting
• offer behaviour
• respond to a cue

These Foundation Skills provide your dog the foundation to quickly learn and build new behaviours.  You'll see your dog paying you more attention and wondering what is the next fun thing to learn!