CGC & Dog “Joust” Class
Pre-requisite: Participants must receive instructor’s prior permission
to attend this class. Contact instructor.
Objective: To give owners of both normal and reactive-recovering dogs an
opportunity to experience training success in increasingly complex, yet
controlled environments by gradually increasing the level of external
stimulation and number of distractions their dogs must contend with. We do this
in brief challenges indoors or outdoors-- with other dogs and people, etc.
performing various activities—“jousts.” Our goal is to rehearse dogs and owners
in CGC type skills and learn greeting and leaving skills in a relatively safe
and controlled environment so that dog and owner can learn to trust one another
and co-exist calmly with others in real life (and for the CGC test).
Instructor and instructor’s dogs, as well as other objects, animals, and
students and their dogs, in class will all potentially be used as distraction
“bait.”
Classes: 4 one hour classes in a session package, limited to 6 dogs
& handlers.