Course Overview
We offer a wide variety of classes. Here you’ll find an overview of all our options. This list is not exhaustive. Please contact us for more information or to sign up.
Experiencing the leash - Feeling & Technique (Self-experience, without a dog)
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You will experience firsthand how different actions on the leash feel and what effects they can have.
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Practical techniques are taught to ensure successful implementation on the dog later.
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Goal: To understand the basics of dog handling
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Use your body and the leash consciously
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Assess your own effect on the dog
Disney World - Meaningful Employment
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Diverse, creative ideas for keeping your dog occupied
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Inspiration to entertain your dog in a meaningful and species-appropriate way and to develop your own exciting tasks.
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Goal: To promote mental activity, mental stimulation, and satisfaction
Practical experience with helper dogs - communication among dogs
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Meeting at the training ground with a helper dog to practice handling dog encounters
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Teaching dog language and signals
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Assess encounters accurately and guide them effectively.
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Goal: To gain safety and trust in encounters with other dogs
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Read the situation correctly and provide targeted support to your dog in its interactions with other dogs.
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Prevention and safety are ensured through correct assessment of the encounter.
Your Walk - Practical application
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We will accompany you during your routine walk with your dog in your local area and will be there to help and support you.
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Leash handling in the neighborhood: Where do I set limits, where do I set freedom, and how?
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Goal: To overcome challenges together, strengthening safety and well-being for humans and dogs
Leash in action - practical experience
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What we learn through personal experience is directly applied to our own dogs here on our training grounds
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Practical leash handling is practiced with targeted tasks
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Goal: To solidify learned techniques, strengthen communication between you and your dog
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Develop a routine in handling
Movement – Coordination & Body Awareness
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Tasks to promote coordination, mobility and body awareness
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Tactile experiences and small obstacles to support motor skills
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Goal: To strengthen the dog's self-confidence, enjoyment of movement, and concentration.
Muzzle – secure setup as relationship building
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Learn about the muzzle as a useful tool and conduct initial contact exercises.
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You will learn how to gradually accustom the dog to putting on, fastening, and carrying.
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Goal: The dog has a positive first experience with the muzzle, and you gain confidence in handling it.
Gathering session – Natural social exchange
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• Accompanied encounters around and on the fenced area with a suitable assistance dog for practicing appropriate off-leash social contact.
• Sequences with and without leash, adapted to the situation and dynamics – safety comes first.
• Recognize and understand the difference between play and displacement activity
• Promote calm, respectful interaction and recognize signs of conflict in a timely manner
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• Strengthen the dogs' social behavior and self-regulation
• Promote the safety and competence of the owners
• Enable harmonious, controlled encounters
Forest walk - practicing encounters
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Accompanying the team on a walk in the forest, encountering unfamiliar dogs.
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Focus on appropriate interaction, safe accompaniment, and correct assessment of dog encounters.
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Goal: To strengthen safety, orientation, and confident action in real-life encounters
Courage & patience – building trust
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A stimulus is placed on the field that might initially appear threatening to the dog.
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The dog learns step by step to assess the stimulus and approach it.
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We verbally guide the owners through the process, explaining what is going on inside the dog, what strategies it uses, and how they can support it.
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Goal: To experience and regulate emotions, promote the dog's sovereignty, expand experience in dealing with stimuli, strengthen self-confidence
Farm training – Encounter with animals
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Accompanying the team during encounters with various animals on the farm
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Focus on getting to know each other, adapting to the environment, and safe interaction.
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Goal: To promote safety, orientation and confident action in new situations, to gain life experience
Manhattan Tour – Navigating the urban jungle with confidence
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Accompanying the team on a tour of the city
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Focus on managing stimuli in a dense environment and interacting appropriately.
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Goal: To strengthen safety, orientation, and confident action while traveling.
Swapping - Bring & Drop Off
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You will learn how to safely and confidently accompany your dog when giving away, exchanging, or bringing objects and food.
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Teaching techniques that promote safety and prevention in everyday life
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On request: Setting up retrieving tasks, e.g. with a food prey dummy
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Goal: To strengthen trust in the handling of resources, prevent misunderstandings, and promote cooperation.
Recall - Trust at a distance
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We show how to design a reliable recall system.
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Understanding how bonding, body language, environment, and timing influence recall.
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Combining theoretical knowledge and practical experience
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Goal: To strengthen safety and trust in remote interactions
Building up nose work - detecting tracks
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Introduction to setting up a targeted search for a person, object, or dog
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The dog is allowed to follow its natural curiosity and develop its innate talent for nose work.
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You will learn to read your dog's behavior and provide supportive guidance.
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Goal: To enable dogs to use their natural abilities, experience self-efficacy, and pursue their talents with joy.