Highlighted Focuses

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To help you customize your training goals, we utilize highlighted focuses to accentuate classes that offer a high degree of focus in specific areas.

Life
Skills

This focus will help you in achieving skills such as:

Front door manners
Greeting manners
Table manners
Other skills surrounding home life
Working in new environments
Working in crowded areas

Confidence
Building

This focus will help develop confidence and self awareness with:

Objects
People
Places
Handling skills
Communication
Managing & prevention

Work
Drive

This focus will help develop or foster growth in your dogs work drive. It will provide them an outlet for existing drives or introduce them to the working world.

Breed drive
Working jobs
Sports
Toy & food drives

Focus &
Impulse
Control

This focus will help develop or harness your dogs focus and impulse control as it relates to:

Environments
People
Other dogs
Food
General over excitement

Social
Skills

This focus will help your dogs social skills as it relates to working on leash, near and approaching:

Dogs
People

*Play social skills are not addressed

Physical
Activity

This focus will help give your dog a controlled form of physical activity including:

Running
Jumping
Climbing
Retrieving
Utilizing their senses

Proofing &
Reliability

This focus will help ensure skills are resilient and tested against a wide variety of:

Distractions
Environments
Duration
Contexts
Distance

Cognitive
Thinking

This focus will explore and promote a problem solving frame of mind as it relates to:

Perception
Judgment
Reasoning
Memory