Do you want to train obedience, working/search and rescue dog or rally obedience and need help getting started?
Do you want to give your dog fun training challenges and enjoy training yourself, even if you haven't thought about doing any dog sport?
Or do you know what you're aiming for and want structured training with guidance from an instructor?
Then this course is perfect for you!
This course gives you a solid foundation – whether you want to compete or just become a better handler.
This is the first of our dog sport courses, and it's what we recommend if you want to pursue, for example, competitive obedience (LP), hunting, Creative obedience, Rally obedience or working obedience. The course is also perfect for you if you don't necessarily want to compete, but want to learn more about clicker training, become a better handler and enrich and mentally stimulate your dog in a fun way.
COURSE CONTENT
On this foundation course you'll learn how to train in most of the basic skills. You'll learn to use different training techniques, such as capturing behaviour, shaping behaviour, targeting and environmental management. In addition to practical training, this course has a theory section that gives you an introduction to learning theory and the principles underlying clicker training, as well as how we go about training a competition dog. You'll become familiar with concepts such as voluntary behaviour, flow, reward placement, stimulus control and generalisation.
COURSE AIMS
…are that you'll have acquired basic handler skills, and that you and your dog are well on the way to learning most of the basic skills and progressing towards fluency for some of them. After completing the course you should be able to continue training on your own, as well as progress to one of these courses:
- Basic Skills for Dog Sport Level 2
- Bronze Badge Course
- Rally Obedience Level 1
TIME
The course runs over 9 hours spread across 8 evenings, including one mandatory theory evening.
The first session is an online theory evening Monday 1st March. We start at 19.00 and continue for approximately 2 hours. The remaining 7 sessions are practical training 18.10–19.10 each Wednesday, from 3rd March to 21st April.
LOCATION
The course takes place indoors in heated facilities at the excellent, newly opened Oslo Hundetreningssenter centrally located at Furuset in Oslo. You and your dog can come to train in a warm, comfortable, dry, clean, safe and predictable environment :)
PRICE
Full price is 3,890 kr. This is more than comparable outdoor courses we run, as rent in Oslo is sky-high, and it's worth paying a bit extra to train indoors. We do have several "early bird" options, so the earlier you enrol, the cheaper it will be.
Some of the basic skills we focus on in this course:
- Reward skills
- Targeting
- Sit (your dog can probably "sit"… But can it sit from lying down whilst you stand 10 metres away? 🤓 )
- Down
- Stand
- Stay
- Back-end awareness
- Starting position
- Recall with explosive start
- Walk + look up at handler (introduction to heelwork with full focus!)
- Doggie Zen (self-control – performing exercises even with distractions nearby)
- Hold and pick up (retrieving)
- Release
- Jump
For each of these basic skills there are also a number of variations, and there are more basic skills than those listed here. We won't be able to go through all the basic skills during the course, so there will be some variation in which of the basic skills receive the most focus. What the course participants want will be prioritised.
INSTRUCTOR
PREREQUISITES
No prior experience necessary.
Do you have questions about the course before you possibly enrol? Feel free to contact lead instructor Marianne at marianne.mjelva@canis.no :)