Dog School

Clicker or Classic Classes

We have now introduced a classic conditioning or clicker class to offer our clients another type of training and fun ways to add to the dog and handler relationship.

We teach you the necessary theory of clicker training and how to shape many types of fun and trick behaviours.  This type of training is what we utilise to train our assistance dogs for people with disabilities to do their task work that adds extra support and mobility to their lives.  With the clicker training you must have completed the basic foundation obedience course as we believe that the clicker is a great training tool, but can not be utilised to long term success without having correct foundation.  We have observed dog owners go into all positive clicker only training for well over a decade and quickly they get reasonable results but just as quickly their results diminish and their dogs will not work.  This is why we openly say 'show me any trainer and dog that has been trained solely on all positive clicker training that has great control of their dog under changing heavy stimulation such as the huge public demonstrations which we do under all environments and massive stimulation without excuses'.  To date, as a professional I have never seen a great reliable dog in all stimulation that was produced from all positive clicker due to the fact that there is not enough foundation and that is why we utilise basic foundation obedience before and in conjunction with the clicker as an extra tool.  This is a good fun way to get more out of your dog!