Dates For Your Diary - July/August 2017
All of our workshops are open to anyone & everyone, even if you don’t attend our classes. Just like our classes, our workshops have a relaxed & friendly atmosphere.
Tea/coffee/cakes available throughtout the morning, Please just help yourself.
Sunday 30th July
Agility workshop with Sarah Trigwell
£25 per handler
See our facebook page for more info 'FromeK9 Dog Training'
Saturday 6th August
BBQ.
Open to everybody. Turn up from 2pm with meat & a place of food. Sociable, quiet dogs welcome. Games for humans & dogs.
Sunday 7th August
Tour de FromeK9. 100K charity bike ride for FromeK9 handlers to raise funds for Cyclists Fighting Cancer. Support welcome! please email me on how you can get involved.
Friday 11th August. 6.30pm - 8.30pm
German Shepherd Only Workshop. Above & beyond basic Obedience. How to build a cracking relationship with your GSD, and set all the foundations for any future dog sports....(Obedience, Agility, Trials, Canicross, (yes Canicross), Trials, UK9, Scentwork.....)
£20 per handler.
Saturday 12 August
9.30am - 10.50am - UltimateK9 (Global ring sport)
11.00am - 12.20pm Hide & Seek (open to all)
12.30pm - 2pm - Mystery Workshop
£15 per workshop, £25 for 2, or £35 for all 3. Cakes, tea/coffee all included.
August 25th - 28th
Camping at Pembrey Country Park, including Canicross racing
Hide & Seek Workshops: These workshops are just for fun, and they are.....great fun! Our ultimate aim is to teach dogs to use their brain, and nose, and scent to find people, (known & unknown) These workshops are for any pet dog to have a taste of a working dogs life. As you know, most scenting working dogs are selected over many months before they can make the grade to train. We, on the otherhand, will take absolutely any breed, as long as the dog & handler are having lots of fun will work on motivating the dog to 'seek & find' through various fun based methods. This workshop is not leading to your dog becoming a professional! Hide & Seek is one of our favourite workshops.
Scent Work: Its highly Motivational, and the dogs just love it! In this session will be setting a foundation for specific scent work (think sniffer dogs at airports).
The Roller Coaster Game: Negotiate a timed course, without your dog touching the floor! Very exciting!
Tracking: Tracking is when a dog uses its sense of smell to find and follow a scent trail, tracking is a natural behaviour for your dog.
Tracking can be used for many tasks, including police work, search and rescue, and hunting. We, of course will be teaching it just for fun.
The end result will be you & your dog following a blind track to locate articles dropped along the way. This is great team work, and completely instinctive for your dog to follow their nose, where they are leading you around the track.
Tracking is suitable for puppies & adults, and any breed.
We use positive methods, (ideally food for footstep tracking) or a toy if your dog it no interested in food rewards.