Life Skills Class – Class for Great Life Skills & Engagement!

Dog Life Skills Class in Sydney

Train Your Dog Like a Pro!

4-week Dog Life Skills Class in Sydney only $249!

1h lessons weekly

Location: Maggie’s Rescue in Marrickville

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Dog Life Skills Class in Sydney!

  • Manners Class for Important Life Skills. Suitable for All Dogs, No Matter the Age or Skill Level.
  • 4 Weeks of Face-to-Face Training Focused on Calming Down Around Distractions, Impulse Control and Engagement Training, covers tether and crate training!
  • FREE Access to My Online Crate Training Course!
  • A Perfect Class for Anyone Who Wants to Train Their Dog Like a Professional. This Dog Training Class Includes All the Skills I Train My Own Dogs!

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Train your dog like a professional, class for life skills and engagement!

Have you ever wondered how professional dog trainers train their dogs? Well, it’s not just fun and games, a lot of it is focused on calm manners around distractions and engagement with the owner, not the environment. And that’s what this class teaches you to focus on! A great relationship with your dog means that you need to do engagement training and teach your dog that you are the most fun thing around. It also means teaching your dog to ignore distractions and be able to calm down when needed. These are the important life skills I focus on with my own dogs, and guess what? They are a pleasure to be around! And calm when left waiting!

Good Life Skills Make Your Life Easier!

Everyone wants a well-behaved dog who doesn’t become a menace outdoors, of course. Good, calm manners make daily life with your dog a lot easier and enjoyable. No one enjoys a dog who can not calm down when you are trying to focus on something else. Or a dog who whines and barks when you leave them waiting outside a cafe. These are just a few examples of the skills we will practise!

This Class Is Perfect For:

  • Young dogs from 16 weeks of age, this is a perfect class for reinforcing calm manners early on!
  • Owners who want to improve their relationship with their dog.
  • Dogs who need independence and calming down practise.
  • Anyone who wants their dog to focus on them, not the environment.

This Class Is NOT Suited For:

  • Reactive or aggressive dogs who can not calm down around other dogs or distractions.
  • Dogs needing socialisation, there’s no socialisation what so ever included in this class.
  • Severely anxious dogs, private training is a better option for them!
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This 4-week Dog Life Skills Class in Sydney Teaches Your Dog the Important Skills Needed in Everyday Life!

You Will Learn
  • Engagement exercises to improve your relatioship with your dog and create a strong bond between the two of you!
  • How to reinforce calm behaviour and impulse control skills around distractions
Your Dog Will Learn
  • Manners skills that can be used on a daily basis.
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  • self-control and discipline in different environments and situations.

This Class Includes

Sit

Simple yet efficient command to help your dog to calm down and wait nicely when you are not near. We use this simple command to teach calmness near other dogs, around distractions and when calmly waiting!

No more whining, barking and anxiety when you try to get your morning coffee!

Calming Down Around Distractions

Every dog should learn to calm down and do nothing, especially around distractions, because let’s face it, sometimes life is simply boring! 

Crate Training

I’m a huge fan of crate training for many reasons, but most importantly because it can be the safe place for your dog in situations that might otherwise be over-whelming. And it’s a great way to teach calmness and eventually even travel with your dog!

Ignoring Other Dogs and People

This class is not for playtime with other dogs. One of the most important life skills every dog should learn is ignoring other dogs and people. This way you don’t need to chase your dog around the park because they are running after everyone. There should be a time and place for playtime, it’s not something to do all the time with everyone!

Engagement with You

This is why dog trainers’ dogs are so obedient: they absolutely adore their owners and want to do things with them, not with the environment. In this class you will learn fun engagement exercises that will help you create a strong bond with your dog!

Focus Exercises

Did you know that for your dog everything around them has some sort of value? The most common issue people have with their dogs is that their dog loses focus when anything else, more interesting, is around.

This leads up to chasing your dog at the park, yelling at them, luring them with treats etc.  And it’s not fun for anyone! A dog should obey and focus on you anytime because they want to – not because nothing more interesting was around! We’ll build up this focus by making you more valuable to your dog.

Tethering & Calm Waiting

A lot of dogs start to show signs of anxiety and impatience when tethered. All dogs should learn to wait calmly when tethered or under a ‘wait’ command, this makes our lives with them a lot more enjoyable!

Learning How to Train Reliable Life Skills

Dogs need to learn what is expected of them. We will use treats to motivate them to offer the behaviours we need but we need to also fade away the treats to create reliable obedience skills. In this class you will learn how to train dogs using positive training methods and how to work towards your goal: having a dog who obeys you whether you have treats or not!

For this class you’ll need:

  • Crate for your dog
  • Kong toy(s)
  • Licky mat
  • Something delicious to chew on such as a bully stick, pig ear, bone etc.