Classes Explained

While we discuss assessments and advancement in the sections below, the ultimate goal of our classes is to ensure that all dogs and owners are safe and enjoy themselves. Some dog and owner teams advance slower than others, but so long as you and your dog are safe and having a good time, then there is no failure.

Puppy Course

Here we teach the fundamentals of dog ownership and prepare you and your puppy for the years ahead.

We teach fun tricks, basic manners, good communication skills, and a portion of class is spent preparing for the Puppy Good Citizen's Test - which is assessed by an Irish Kennel Club accredited assessor.

At least once a year, we invite an assessor to come assess all dogs for different levels of the Good Citizen's Test.

The goal of this six-week course is to ensure all puppies are ready to pass our own assessment and join the more advanced classes.

Cost: €30 in advance for six classes.

Basic Dog Training

Not all dogs begin training as puppies. Perhaps you only got your dog as an adult, or perhaps you had to wait a while before you could train in a group setting, or perhaps you just didn't want to before now!

There are lots of reasons why some dogs begin training as adults. This is a foundations class which (similarly to our puppy class) prepares you and your dogs for the years ahead.

As well as having a good time, learning communication skills and fun tricks, we also prepare your dog for the Puppy (if below a year) and Bronze Good Citizen Test.

Finally, our main goal is to prepare them to join our more advanced classes.

Cost: €30 in advance for six classes.

One-To-One Training

There are a number of reasons why you may prefer to train one-to-one - your dog may be too stressed in a group environment, your dog may not have enough skills or manners to succeed outside of the home or you may need some individualised attention.

We can help with behavioural issues like aggression, resource guarding, pulling on the lead and much more.

We can also help provide individual extra traing if you want to prepare your dog for a special event.

Cost: €50 per session

Mantrailing

This is a dog sport - a pet version of Search and Rescue. All the action is on a long line and harness, and all dogs work one at a time.

Cost: €30 per session.

Here dogs learn how to use their noses to find people and communicate what they're doing to their owners. The owners learn how to communicate the job to their dogs and how to correctly handle different scenarios.

Classes are outdoors and are on multiple times a month.

We occasionally offer other classes or hold mock-competitions in:

Rally
Competitive obedience
Trick training

Get in touch if you want to take part or learn more.