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Registration is open for our Fall classes and workshops
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Sharing your life with a dog should be fun and rewarding. But certain unwanted behaviors – pulling you down the street, barking at people or other dogs as they pass by, jumping on visitors, or not coming when called – can take all the joy out of it.
Wholistic Hound Academy’s group classes, private training lessons and events make life with your puppy or dog easier and more fun by bringing out the best in your dog! With guidance from our knowledgeable, professional, and certified instructors, you’ll learn how to respond to both good and bad behavior, and teach your dog to make the right behavior choices. Before you know it, you’ll have a calmer, more relaxed, well-mannered canine companion who’s a real pleasure to be around!
Looking for a fun way to build your dog’s confidence? Want your usual walk to be more challenging and creative? Try dog parkour! Dog parkour, sometimes called “urban agility,” teaches dogs to try new things with their bodies and handlers to identify opportunities for canine enrichment. In this 4-session class, we will introduce the fundamentals of dog parkour, including training methods, safety protocols, and behavior guidelines.
The sport of parkour is played in the everyday world -- at home, schoolyards, parks, shopping centers, training facilities, and anywhere else where there are obstacles for dogs to jump on or over, climb on, balance on, and crawl under. Dozens of exercises utilizing such obstacles have been devised by the two canine parkour titling bodies, and handlers can use their imagination to create new exercises.
Parkour is a great way to develop a dog’s confidence, ability to ignore distractions and to generalize behaviors, and for the trainer to learn how to teach new skills to their dog – and just plain have fun! The following link shows a sample submission to one of the titling bodies, shot at our local Ft. Ward Park. https://youtu.be/ES5gtpPWhQg
Prerequisite: Good Dog 101 or prior foundation skills class, or permission of the instructor. Dogs should be reasonably comfortable working in the presence of other dogs, with or without barriers.
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To schedule an appointment, please call 703-962-6335 or email info@wholistichound.com
Academy Address:
18 Roth Street
Alexandria, Virginia
Phone: (703) 962-6335
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