Moss Vale High School: A group of dogs showing calm behaviour in Class
Basic Obedience for Adult & Juvenile Dogs
This course is suitable for most juvenile & adult dogs:
- rescue dogs whose behaviour or confidence you would like to improve;
- dogs who are generally good but who do things like pull madly on the lead, making your walk a task rather than an enjoyment;
- dogs who lunge & bark at other dogs when on lead but reacts calmly to them when not on lead;
- dogs who come when called if s/he feels like it;
- dogs who are good natured but are generally out of control;
- dogs who counter surf or break into the food supply;
- barkers.
Course Content
Your dog will learn to:
- concentrate on you & look to you for guidance;
- walk nicely beside you when in crowded situations or in traffic;
- control impulses to run out of doors & gates ahead of you;
- leave things on the ground that you don’t want her / him to have (or drop things they have picked up);
- wait calmly to be fed;
- allow you to take food away;
- come when you call;
- stay in her / his allocated parts of the house;
- behave calmly around other dogs, in crowds & in traffic; and, of course
- if there is a problem with house training, become well toilet trained.
You will:
- begin to get greater enjoyment from your dog;
- build your dog’s confidence in you so you will have more control over him;
- enjoy meeting up with people with similar interests;
- master techniques to keep your dog doing the things you want;
- learn tricks for keeping your dog out of mischief;
- fine tune your canine communication skills so that your dog really know what you want;
- come to understand when we should use food for training & when we should not;
- learn to think of the world from your dog’s point of view;
- get a greater understanding of how dogs learn – that in some things they learn like us & that in some things they learn completely differently.
