DogSkills 101 and 102
GREYHOUND DOGSKILLS
101
Starts Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (first class)
7:45 p.m.
GREYHOUND DOGSKILLS
102
Starts Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (first class)
7:45 p.m.
Woof Gang
Doggy Day Care
2625 Old Denton Rd, Suite 336
Carrollton, Texas
6-week class – Sign up Now
Read about a previous obedience class and what fun they had.
Email GALT if you are interested in attending a future obedience class; if we get enough attendees, we will schedule another class.
Obedience
Training for Greyhounds Only!
"EVERYTHING YOU DO IS TRAINING"
New adopters, old adopters, learn to teach your grey basic manners like not to jump, how to lay down on command and the dreaded SIT! Your hound can learn how to be a great PR rep by showing their skills at meet 'n greets and public events. Encourage adoption and responsible ownership with your very own public relations committee!
DogSkills 101 (beginner) and 102 (intermediate) classes are held at Woof Gang Doggy Day Care. Classes are one hour in length and will be limited to 8-10 greyhounds. The fee is $85 for the six-week course. Click here to sign up and pay by check, PayPal or by MasterCard, Visa or American Express on GALT's secure server. Space will not be held until payment is received. A questionnaire will be sent upon payment for submission at the first class.
DogSkills
101
This six-week course is designed to teach owners to think like their greyhounds
so that they can accurately communicate desirable behaviors, and learn
to redirect inappropriate ones. Teaching good manners and polite social
skills help your greyhound understand their place in your home and enables
them to better fulfill your expectations of a "good dog."
Each week you and your family will receive nightly homework exercises. All members of the family are encouraged to practice these exercises with their greyhounds. We will talk about the importance of rewarding attention, how to motivate greyhounds, and how to use their natural motivation to reinforce behaviors that you find desirable. The vocabulary we will build will include "down, stay, wait, come, off, no and wrong."
With this class we hope to open the door to a rewarding relationship between you and your greyhound.
DogSkills
102 "Building on a foundation"
This class is specially designed for our Greyhounds who have participated
in our 101 class, and have been introduced to sit, down and stay. We will
work on increasing our stay command, proficiency in sit and down and prepare
the dogs for the exercises required in the Canine Good Citizen and Therapy
Dog International certifications. We will also cover nail trimming and
teaching owners how to use a Dremel tool to grind nails without
hitting the quick! A must for hounds with black toenails! Learn to trim
nails without stressing yourself and your dog!
Click on a small picture below to see some training scenes.
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ABOUT THE TRAINER
Dogskills 101 and 102 is taught by Mary Waugh. Mary's first experience
with training dogs began when she was six years old and discovered that
her parent's black lab would jump over cardboard "walls" for
a cookie. Today she would tell you that nothing much has changed. Training
is about finding incentives and using them. The incentives and the exercises
vary, but developing a rapport and having fun are what it's all about.
Recently Mary spent six years in Pittsburgh, PA as the Senior Trainer at Misty Pines Dog Park Company while working on her Ph.D. coursework at Duquesne University. At Misty Pines, Mary taught Freestyle, Obedience and Agility classes, performed behavioral consultations, and gave public education seminars. She worked with many shelter and rescue organizations in Pittsburgh and now in the Dallas area.
Mary's personal dogs have been active Therapy Dogs, are titled in obedience and agility, and are well known in the sport of Canine Freestyle. Mary and her Doberman Pinscher, Devon, have been featured on Animal Planet's "Breed All About It," have been interviewed by DOGFANCY and Doberman Quarterly, and have given seminars at the local and national level.
Mary's dogs include Gwen, a 12-year-old rescue English Shepherd from the former Collin County Humane Society; Devon, her 5-year-old "Dancing Doberman"; Cassanova, an 8-month-old future Doberman agility star; and Rose, a 2-year-old rescue Staffordshire Bull Terrier--the resident juvenile delinquent.
Mary Waugh
Swindell
DancingDogs
214-476-5577
dancingdobe@aol.com
www.dancing-dogs.com
