Agility is a great way to exercise your dog both mentally and physically and also helps to increase the bond between dog and owner. All S.I.T agility training is designed to teach both dog and owner how to successfully navigate and handle obstacles and courses so you gain the most out of training. These courses will also give you a firm grounding if you wanted to start competing.
Obedience & Life Skills
These courses make a great foundation for every dog and owner, whether you have a young puppy or just adopted a rescue dog. The course focuses on creating a positive working relationship between dog and owner and teaching dogs that their owners are a valuable resource. During the course dogs will learn basic behaviours such as sit, lie down, and stay, hand- touch recall, send away, and walking to heal.
Freestyle
Teach your dog to dance! This course introduces dog and owner to canine freestyle. Dogs will need to have a basic level of obedience to take part and be able to work off lead around other dogs. The course helps to develop your dogs obedience as well as teaching them something fun. By the end of the course you will have learnt enough to perform a short routine to music.
Clicker Training
An introduction to clicker training and its uses within dog training. This course teaches both dog and owner how to successfully mark and shape behaviours using a clicker (or a key word), During the course you will teach your dog a number of new behaviours using the clicker making this a valuable foundation course to the Freestyle and Tricks courses.
Tricks
A fun course designed to teach your dog a number of popular tricks and give you the foundations needed to continue teaching new tricks. Dogs will need a basic level or obedience and be able to work around other dogs off lead to take part. Dogs and owners will also need a basic understanding of marking and shaping behaviours.
Rally Obedience
Rally is a fun way to increase your dog’s obedience. Rally obedience is set up as a numbered course of signs. The signs direct the handler and dog team to perform behaviours, such as sit, or to turn left or right. Dogs will need a basic level of obedience to take part in these classes and the beginners obedience course is a great foundation giving you enough knowledge to start rally.