Basic Manners Dog Training Classes – Dog Manners, House Training, Dog Obedience Socialization Classes

New Basic manners class starting January 31st.

Train your dogs with Friends for Life dog training positive training techniques that work. Your dog will love you for it! Sign up for our Basic Dog Manners six week Training Class for only $110 for dogs 6 months or older and receive one free pass  to our Friday Night Grab Bag Class which includes Exerball, Nose Work, and introduction to Tellington TTouch training. Plus a special *Workshop Class of your choice for loose leash walking, nail trimming, and solving behavior problems such as excessive jumping, and barking.

Graduate from our Basic Puppy Manners Class and our Basic Dog Manners Class and receive a 10% lifetime discount at Friends For Life Dog Training including our popular Private Training Classes.

Life Long Goals

1 Build effective relationships with your dogs based on effective inter-species communication, thus:

• Increasing the bonds between owners and their dogs through positive dog training.
• Avoiding the rise of unwanted behaviors and the use of punishment due to human misunderstanding of the needs, desires, and intentions of dogs.
• Avoiding the rise or reinforcement of unwanted behaviors due to poor human to dog communication.
• Unwanted behaviors such as dog to dog aggression, barking, dog separation anxiety, house training, destructive behavior, can all be eliminated though positive training methods and effective communication.

2 Choose a positive, problem solving approach when faced with new challenges or situations over their dog’s lifetime. In our opinion there is no such thing as a bad dog, just a dog that has not learned what is expected of them.

Course Goals

By the end of this course, students will know:

• How Dogs Learn
  Understand how dogs learn by association (classical conditioning) and consequence (operant conditioning), and the implications of these learning modes for training and living with dogs.
• Basic Needs
  Understand the basic physical and mental stimulation needs of dogs and how to provide for them.
• Reinforcement & Motivation
  Understand what is reinforcing for their dog and be able to use this knowledge to effect positive training outcomes.
• Handling and  Focus
  Be able to achieve and maintain control of dogs through safe, positive leash handling and positive methods of focusing dogs’ attention.
• Situational Awareness
  Understand the importance of and learn to always be aware of one’s surroundings, and be ready to respond proactively as needed to keep dogs and humans safe and comfortable.
• Work at the Dog’s Level
  Understand the importance of and be able to set reasonable expectations for and assess dog’s behavior and progress based on one’s own skills, the dog’s experience, and the surrounding situation.  Each dog and their human are at different skill levels. While one dog may be able to sit in a very distracting environment another might need extra help achieving that goal. In this course you will learn how to work at the level of your dog in any given situation.
• Problem Solving
  Be able to apply class learning to teach additional behaviors and problem solve positive approaches to real life situations.

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