Private Lessons At Greater Coastal Canine Academy
Beginner Lessons/Socialization:
All breeds and ages.
Our beginner program is different from most. Although we do recognize the importance of
socialization in a young dogs life, we do not incorporate socialization and beginning obedience
in the same lesson. Although your socialization program is included in the cost of your private
lesson package, they are at separate times.
A brief agenda for an 8 week private lessons package:
1. Attention Training: This is an absolute must. Your dogs must first learn to pay
attention to you in order for training to be successful.
2. Jumping: We address jumping very early on in your training. All aspect of this
annoying behavior are addressed from prevention, stopping existing jumping, and meeting and
greeting new people,
3. Coming When Called: This is the most important command that every dog
should know reliably. We begin teaching this command from the basics and give you and
the tools you will need to teach a reliable recall.
4. How your dogs learn. Every dog owner needs to have a basic understanding of
how dogs learn in order to be able to communicate effectively.
5. Walking on a loose leash.
6. How to build a healthy relationship with your dog: Leadership roles are
essential when working with your dog. All aspects of this important topic are addressed.
We teach you to be a firm leader, but a fair leader. Everything is through a motivation,
reward system.
7. How to play properly with your dog: We cover all the details of how to prevent
resource guarding, how to train your dogs to retrieve, and the proper way to offer
your dog toys.
8. How to select the proper training equipment.
9. For young puppies (8-16wks): Housebreaking, crate training,
puppy biting are all addressed.
10. Basic Obedience Commands are covered for all ages. Sit, stay, come, down,
watch, leave it, and leash training.
All private lessons are scheduled by appointment only. Evaluations are required prior to signing
up for any program. Weekend classes are available after September 5th. However, we are
booking very quickly for weekends,, so if you need a slot please call soon.
Socialization;
Socialization is crucial. For each private lesson you sign up for a socialization hour is included.
For example; if you sign up for 8 private lessons, you will have 8 socialization sessions available.
Socialization sessions are available to private lesson students only. All humans are
required to attend. At this time socialization sessions are scheduled for Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m.—11:00 a.m. We will be scheduling a Saturday session
after September 5th.
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