Sports
Boost Confidence, Build Connection
Dog sports are the perfect activity to enhance and enrich the partnership between dog and owner! Dog sports:
- Build teamwork
- Provide an outlet for a dog’s natural instincts
- Increase a dog’s responsiveness
- Build confidence in shy or timid dogs
- Practice learned skills and behaviors
- Increase both the handers’ and the dogs’ skills of mutual communication
- Most of all, Dog Sports are fun to enjoy together with your dog!
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Dog Agility
More than just a good time, Agility is great exercise for both you and your dog. Agility presents an obstacle course for your dog to run through tunnels, leap over jumps, ride a seesaw, climb over an A-frame and more. Here are just a few advantages of agility training.
- A tremendous confidence builder for a shy or timid dog
- An energy outlet for the highly active dog
- Reinforces and broadens your dog’s responsiveness
- It’s entertaining and enjoyable for both the dog and the handler. It’s fun!
Agility Class Descriptions
Agility Groundwork – Core Class
Laying the foundation for your agility partnership.
Agility Equipment & Sequencing
From the introduction of equipment in a safe, positive and motivational manner to running courses. Prerequisite: Agility Groundwork
Agility Skills & Handling Cues
Creating a solid foundation of clear communication & handling skills. Games, positive, training and most importantly FUN! Prerequisite: Equipment and Sequencing
Scent Work
Dogs have an amazing sense of smell and a natural desire to use it – sniffing, hunting, exploring, learning. Scent work:
- Increases confidence in the shy dog
- Increases the teamwork you and your dog have together
- Provides a healthy outlet for your dog’s natural instincts
- Practice anytime, anywhere — inside and out. No special equipment needed
- Your dog will love it… and so will you!
Scent Work Class Descriptions
Scent Work Beginner 1 and 2
Providing both mental and physical exercise, this class develops your dog’s instinctive behavior, focusing on his or her natural abilities, teaching you how to encourage and nurture them. Beginner 1 is followed immediately by Beginner 2, together laying a firm foundation for your dog. There are no prerequisites, but basic training is recommended.
Scent Work Intermediate
Building on the foundation of your beginner class, this class is the continuation of this terrific outlet for your dog’s instinctive behavior.
Scent Work Advanced
Continuing the partnership between you and your dog, on-going scent work classes provide a healthy outlet for your dog’s mental energy and instinctive behavior.
Breed Handling
Conformation Handling for a winning performance! Here’s what our Handling Classes offer:
- Tactics, techniques, strategies and skills to prepare both handlers and dogs for a winning performance
- For all levels from a “show pro,” to a beginner just starting out
- For a puppy or an experienced show dog
- Learn and practice winning skills for competition in the show ring
Rally
Rally is a great way to practice the teamwork and the connection between you and your dog. Here are a few things to know about Rally:
- Builds your dog’s responsiveness to cues
- Increases knowledge of learned behaviors
- Provides tremendous variety and interest in perfecting behaviors
- Always new and different. More than 60 possible behaviors to perform
- Perfects the behaviors owners tell us they want most—in a fun environment!
About Rally
What is Rally?
In Rally, a dog and handler team move together through a course made up of 10-20 signs, or stations. The team navigates through the course of stations in which each numbered sign indicates a behavior or sequence of behaviors to perform such as:
- Stop, sit then down your dog and circle your dog while they stay in place
- Heel in a full 360 degree turn
- Perform a “figure eight” turn, or a weaving serpentine
- Leave your dog on a stay, walk away, then call your dog to a sit in front.
Teams start with a “perfect” score of 200 with points deducted for faults along the way. There are also “bonus” exercises available so teams can earn a score of 210 if they perform with no errors.
The Benefits of Participating in Rally
There are lots of reasons Rally enthusiasts get hooked on the sport. Courses are always different, making for a more challenging and interesting experience for the dog and handler. Handlers can talk to their dogs during the course, encouraging and praising their dogs for a job well done, making it less formal and more motivating for the dog—making a difference in their team relationship.
Rally is for everyone! It’s for senior dogs to participate in an activity that fits their slower pace and physical abilities yet allows them to keep them active and involved in a sport with their owners. It’s a low impact activity and it’s not high drive like agility without the rigidity of traditional obedience competition.
And Rally is for people of all ages and physical abilities from teens to the elderly including persons with disabilities. For both people and their dogs, Rally is a totally inclusive sport. Despite being a competitive sport, there is a strong sense of community among Rally devotees, creating a supportive and welcoming atmosphere.
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I’ve been taking my lab here since he was a puppy and he loves it! I boarded him for a week and knew I had nothing to worry about because he was so well taken care of. Definitely recommend this place for any dog owner!
- Allison Y.
My puppy LOVES everyone here! They are great with caring for him the way I would and are amazing with meds, exercise, training and grooming.