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Improve your current skills or learn to handle your dog for the breed ring.

Improve your current skills or learn to handle your dog for the breed ring.

Come have a dog playdate with all your friends at the club. Your dog must be either a current student of our AKC STAR Puppy class or have completed and passed the program.
A release of liability is required to be signed at the facility.

Keep your dog socialized. Unfortunately, after the intensive period of early socialization (Puppy Class) period many owners slack off. They see that their hard work has paid off and that their puppy is friendly and sociable in every situation they find themselves in. What they don‘t realize is that dogs naturally become more shy and standoffish as they get older. Adolescent and adult dogs develop fears and phobias to stimuli that they aren‘t continually exposed to. Keeping your dog well-socialized to other dogs is not so easy, and often this area of their socialization deteriorates the most rapidly.


Socialization & Enrichment is:
* An ongoing process, not a single object or event
* Only enriching if the animal chooses to interact with it or is affected positively by it
*Improving the quality of life for the dogs
*Helping the dog present themselves better when exposed to new situations
*Incorporates a combination of sensory, physical, environmental, cognitive, and social activities.
*Variety is the key to successful enrichment & socialization in order to keep things interesting. Modest but pleasant changes in the dog‘s environment help prevent dogs from becoming at-risk behaviorally.

Facility will be set up with a combination of sensory, physical, environmental, cognitive and social
activities.

Come have a dog playdate with all your friends at the club. Your dog must be either a current student of our AKC STAR Puppy class or have completed and passed the program.
A release of liability is required to be signed at the facility.

Keep your dog socialized. Unfortunately, after the intensive period of early socialization (Puppy Class) period many owners slack off. They see that their hard work has paid off and that their puppy is friendly and sociable in every situation they find themselves in. What they don‘t realize is that dogs naturally become more shy and standoffish as they get older. Adolescent and adult dogs develop fears and phobias to stimuli that they aren‘t continually exposed to. Keeping your dog well-socialized to other dogs is not so easy, and often this area of their socialization deteriorates the most rapidly.


Socialization & Enrichment is:
* An ongoing process, not a single object or event
* Only enriching if the animal chooses to interact with it or is affected positively by it
*Improving the quality of life for the dogs
*Helping the dog present themselves better when exposed to new situations
*Incorporates a combination of sensory, physical, environmental, cognitive, and social activities.
*Variety is the key to successful enrichment & socialization in order to keep things interesting. Modest but pleasant changes in the dog‘s environment help prevent dogs from becoming at-risk behaviorally.

Facility will be set up with a combination of sensory, physical, environmental, cognitive and social
activities.

Improve your current skills or learn to handle your dog for the breed ring.

Starter obedience skills for puppies 12 wks.- 1 year

Get your AKC titles today. Evaluators will be on hand to do testing for you and your dog to earn a multiple of titles.
$10 for testing. If you were in our CGC class there is no charge for your first test.

Improve your current skills or learn to handle your dog for the breed ring.

The instructor of this class will teach you everything you need to know to go to your first Rally Trial. In fact, you will experience a mock trial on week six. Learn about the point system, what those signs and pictures mean, and all the equipment needed such as collars, leashes, and crates for example. The Rally/Obedience/Freestyle skills class is not mandatory before taking this class, but it is recommended for a smooth transition into this sport class.

Do you have your CGC title and now you are looking for more ways to develop your dogs good manner skills? With this 6 week class you will practice and train in the real world with real distractions. Your first class will be at the CDTC to set you up for the streets of downtown Summerville. After the first class at the CDTC we will meet at a designated area of downtown Summerville to work on different scenarios you will be facing for the test. Immediately following the 6th class you will be presented with the opportunity to take the CGC Urban test. Multiple evaluators will be on hand to administer the test.

Do you have your CGC title and now you are looking for more ways to develop your dogs good manner skills? With this 6 week class you will practice and train in the real world with real distractions. Your first class will be at the CDTC to set you up for the streets of downtown Summerville. After the first class at the CDTC we will meet at a designated area of downtown Summerville to work on different scenarios you will be facing for the test. Immediately following the 6th class you will be presented with the opportunity to take the Advanced Canine Good Citizen (the “CGCA” title) test. Multiple evaluators will be on hand to administer the test.

If you have a dog under 10 months please consider going into the AKC STAR Puppy Class prior to Basic Training.
This class will focus on building a great relationship with your dog through clear training and fun. It will also better prepare you to go onto the CGC Prep Class & Skills & Sport/performance classes.
Some highlights of the course includes the Rewards Preference Test, How to Stop My Dog From doing That, Game Play in Training, Zen Bowls & Clear Cues.

There will be homework assigned each week with reinforced instruction and practice in the weekly visit to the Training Center. From this class you can go on to participate in any number or dog related activities associated with dog sports or hobbies.