Functional Foundations
Available in 6, 8, or 10 session packages
This program is only eligible for dogs over the age of 6 months. Valid rabies vaccination required.
Proper home management and obedience are vital to the relationship between you and your dog. Together, they help promote confidence and stability in the home and on the street.
Obedience gives us the ability to adapt to changing environments that range from mild to extreme distraction.
Proper Home Management allows us to build a healthy cohabitation with our dogs, balanced with value, fun, and companionship while setting safe boundaries and expectations.
Join the pack and become proficient with Functional Obedience commands and Proper Handling Techniques while developing the skill and ability to modify any unwanted behaviour.
Commands Under Distractions: RECALL (‘come’), HEEL, SIT, PLACE, DOWN
Common Issues:
- Excessive Excitement
- Jumping Up
- Counter Surfing
- Reactivity (to dogs, people, skateboards, joggers etc.)
- Leash Pulling
- Possessiveness (“resource guarding”)
- Separation Anxiety
- Excessive Barking
Aggression Control
Please contact us for session details
Aggression Control is for dogs over the age of 6 months and often requires an assessment
The Aggression Control course covers all necessary skills to manage and handle an aggressive dog. It is essential to restructure the relationship between you and your dog in order to effectively rehabilitate and reintegrate the dog in your life safely and properly. While obedience skills are covered and ultimately necessary for any dogs that completes the program, we will also be covering confidence building, dog body language and handler value/respect.
Indiscriminate aggression is instability
Learn obedience commands:HEEL (walking beside), SIT, RECALL (‘come’), PLACE (for 1 minute plus) and LOOSE LEASH WALKING.
Common types of aggression:
- Dominance Aggression
- Interdog Aggression
- Fear-based Aggression
- Redirection Aggression
- Territoriality (Territorial Aggression)
- Learned Aggression
- Sexual Aggression
- Predatory Aggression
- Possession
