🐾 New Classes Start Next Week!🐾
🌟 Level 1 Life Skills: Build essential skills like confidence, disengagement, recall, and stress recognition for you and your dog.
🐶 Level 2 City Sniffers - Environmental Explorers: Unleash your dog's nose with fun food searches using vessels in various environments. Perfect for building confidence and enhancing their natural abilities!
🐾 Level 1 Intro to Odor: Discover the world of scent work! This class introduces your dog to wintergreen essential oil, transfering from food searches to a novel smell.
🍻 Patio Pals Pups n Pints at Patina Brewing: Join us for a fun-filled workshop focused on teaching your dog how to settle, ignore distractions, and practice auto leave it, all while you enjoy a delicious drink!
🎉 Special Offer: This is your last chance to join our 6-week Reactive to Reconnected class this year at the introductory price! Our certified dog behaviour consultant & family dog mediator will help you and your dog build confidence and reduce reactivity.
All classes are held outdoors within the Tri-Cities area, and spaces are limited, so book your spot now!
📆 Don't miss out on this opportunity to strengthen your bond with your dog in a supportive and engaging environment. Sign up today on our website!
New dates are set for our Drop-in Beginner Community Reactive classes, Level 1 Life Skills and Level 1 City Sniffers Scent Class. Please note that these will be the last sessions until August. Reactive drop ins will continue throughout the summer. Spots are limited, so secure yours by visiting the website today!
🐾 Today's teams showcased exceptional skills in managing their canine companions and navigating the busier space! From our engaging Beginner's drop-in to the more challenging Advanced Walk & Skills class, progress was evident and rewarding. Join us in our safe and supportive environment as we work towards common goals.
Struggling with a reactive dog? Join our Beginner's classes for just $25 (plus tax) and enjoy free sessions through Canines in the Community by HugABull
We also have some exciting news! Registration opens April 1st for our new 6-week, in-person reactive class starting in May! Limited spots available, so secure your spot by joining the waitlist via email or stay tuned for registration details on April 1st! 🐶✨
🍁 On this Remembrance Day, we honor and remember the brave men, women and animlas who sacrificed for our freedom. Lest we forget. 🇨🇦 #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget
Registration is open for our upcoming classes!
All classes are limited to 6 dogs max with 2 trainers for 4 dogs with 1 trainers to ensure everyone gets the support they need.
Head to our website to see more details & register!
For those who have completed our level 1 City Sniffers Scent Class, you're welcome to repeat the class and will receive a discount. This is great for fearful and reactive dogs who want to keep working on the basics of nosework while further improving confidence.
If you have a reactive dog, it is so imporant to learn canine body language as well as your dogs threshold distance with each trigger in various environments.
The traffic light system is a great way to learn how to be proactive and prevent your dog from going into Red and reacting.
If you're looking for help with your reactive dog, our team would love to help!
Visit our website or send a message for more info
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We are so proud of our first Beginner Parallel Pals Group Walk participants 👏
These walks are a new part of our Tri-Cities Reactive Club and take place in open spaces where you can practice your management skills and training strategies while gradually working towards closer interactions and more advanced training scenarios. We offer basic meetups to work on the foundation skills, advanced skills classes & advanced neighbourhood walks as well.
Are you struggling with a reactive dog? Message us and we will let you know how we can help!
Happy Canada Day to all our fellow Canadians 🇨🇦🍁
It's been a couple weeks since I last saw Dutch and his family. He is progressing so well in all his exercises so we added some new tasks to begin working on.
Recalls are so important and maintaining it is even more important. I always recommend going back to the basics with easy recall games like hide n seek and ensuring your recall is rewarding and fun.
With Dutch, we are beginning with 'Scatter recall" which builds a solid base to build off of. The only goal is that as soon as you move, they follow to the new location, get a food reward and repeat. We eventually add our recall word to this because it becomes predictable for them to return to us making the pairing more successful than saying from the start when they may get distracted and not return quickly.
If they get distracted, give a couple seconds to process. If they still don't come back, you can add in a tongue click, kissy sound, getting low to the ground and spreading your arms out or moving a bit closer/to another spot to draw them over to you. Be sure to make it easier or change your environment if they are struggling. We want each recall to be a success, especially once the verbal cue is added!
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Enrichment is so important for all dogs. I put together this video of some of my dogs favorite toys.
If I had to guess Charlie's favorite, I would say the Kong wobbler. He's been using it since he was around 10 weeks old and still goes right for it. He even knows what "want your wobble?" means and will go over and bat it with his paw 🥰
Daisy has been loving the new hide a squirrel🐿 they got for Christmas. She can pull them all out and often gets distracted tossing them around and squeaking them 😆
What's your dogs favorite enrichment toy or game?
Quick controlled sniffs turned into a lovely on leash play a few minutes later. Of course I was too excited and didn't catch it on video but I'm so impressed with Abby & Phoebe and their handlers! I had a feeling with a slow intro these two could learn some skills and maybe even make a friend. Our #tricitiesreactivedogclub is there is to help, wherever you may be starting!
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