Focus Forward Training Centre

Training Classes

Puppy Principles

Introduction to basic manners, help with common puppy issues and first aid.

Elementary Essentials

The science and ABC’s of learning, how to gain leadership and attention, how to use food and toys and play for rewards.

Fun Fundamentals

Our instructor’s will make sure you and your pet are prepared for real life situations.

Focus and Control Through Games

FACT Games will build focus, trust and off-leash handling.

Living Their Best Life: A Guide To Enrichment

Learn new ways to care for your dog through brain stimulation.

Trick Class

You can learn new skills and your dog can learn new tricks.

Nose Work

Looking for a great way to keep your pooch busy?

Dancing with Dogs Class

Create a personalized dance routine with your dog.

Advance Specialty Class

Perfecting skill performance and reliability in advanced levels.

Rally-O Specialty Class

A sport in which the dog and handler complete a designated course.

Conformation Specialty Class

We cover CKC regulations, judging procedures, breed standards and allowed equipment.

First Aid for Dogs and Cats

First aid, treating minor cuts and ailments.

Private lessons

One-on-one help with behavioral problems.

Such a great experience with puppy classes. Worth every penny. My puppy had so much fun interacting with the other dogs and getting to have the little play after as a group, and all the fun games and activities we got to do at the end of each class was awesome. Joanne did such a good job with everything she taught and the personalized puppy cookies at the last class were just the best!!! We will definitely be coming back for more classes.

Breanne Turner

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K9 Training

Why Yes, We’re Here to Help

A Training Class is not the place for your dog to learn, a Training Class is a place for people to learn. A good dog Trainer doesn’t train dogs, a good Trainer teaches people how to help their dogs. Your dog will only improve if you do the work in the environments your dog will experience, no dog will improve if you only practice in class.

Go to a good class, ask the Trainer questions, so you are clear on what you need to do. Listen to the Trainer fully, the snippets of information they give are important. Practise in class, so your Trainer can see you have a good understanding on how to help your dog’s learning.

Then go and practise these skills every day in the real world. Your dog learns best in the home, garden, car and streets, beaches and fields, they learn in real life, not just in a classroom.

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Focus Forward Training Centre

Focus Forward Training helps people and their dogs enjoy each other to the fullest with caring, common sense dog training.

In showing a commitment to professional certification and to continuing education our trainers as a group as well as independently continue to attend seminars and lectures, we try to be informed with the latest techniques and strategies that will enable us to provide professional and current canine training classes for your puppy or dog.

This is particularly important in an unregulated industry that does not require trainers to seek education or certification before working with dogs and their people.

Every year more scientific research is uncovered, and the old ways of training are diminishing – this is good news for our dogs. They deserve the best we can give them!

REASONS TO BRING YOUR DOG TO THE FOCUS FORWARD TRAINING CENTRE:

Mental Stimulation
Physical exercise
Relief from boredom, anxious, and aggressive behaviors
Increased confidence
Strengthened owner-dog relationships and communication

Socializaion that can help reduce potential for future anxious an aggressive behaviours
Use-full skills and behaviours
Decreased chance of relinquishment due to behaviour problems
A support group of other people who are also learning to train their dogs

Classes

Whether you have a puppy that you want to get started right, a challenging adolescent, a newly adopted dog, or a dog with behaviors that you’d like to change; we’re here to help.

Our team of experienced trainers love dogs and we have helped hundreds of dogs and their people learn to understand each other and work together.

Registration must be made in advance.

Puppy Principles

Group lessons – six-week session from ages 8 weeks to 4 months. 40 minutes of instruction and 10 minutes of socialization (play)

This class is more of a relationship program more than training. We start off with socialization and brief play, taking care that pups do not deliver or receive bullying behaviors. Our six-week program typically includes socialization with people, dogs, and different pieces of equipment and stimuli. Introduction to basic manners; help with common puppy issues, such as housetraining, jumping up, mouthing, resource guarding, grooming and first aid. We try to keep this class fun and stress free. Sure, we train you, but this class is mostly beneficial for your pup. We teach you the value of leadership through play, this course provides you and your pup opportunities to learn important life skills and is truly designed to get them off to a terrific start.

Build fantastic relationship with your dog!
Integrate your dog to your family’s lifestyle!
Get them real life ready!

Cost for 6 weeks is $300 plus tax, or $50 per class.

Elementary Essentials

Group lessons – six week session from ages 4 months and upwards. 40 minutes of instruction and 10 minutes of socialization (play)

This class has a positive influence on the relationship between your dog and your family. With our curriculum for pet dog manners we will motivate both you and your dog. We help our students by carefully guiding and teaching the science and ABC’s of learning, how to gain leadership and attention, how to use food, the use of toys and play for rewards. Many of our exercises are presented as non competitive games.

Some of our topics for this level are:

Accepting a friendly stranger and sitting politely for petting
Having good reactions to other dogs
Coming when called
Mastering the settle exercise
Collar grabs, leash on – leash off
Accepting touching and grooming
Walking on a loose lead

Whether your dog is a canine athlete or a lounge-hound with healthier aspirations, our canine fitness and enrichment program will help ensure your dog is in optimum physical condition, equipped with confidence, optimism and social skills.

Cost for 6 weeks is $300 plus tax, or $50 per class of approximately 50-minute classes!

Fun Fundamentals

Group lessons – six week session from ages 6 months and upwards 45 minute class

Dog training is like a bank account in the sense that time invested now will pay dividends in the form of many years of great companionship.

This class is conducted in a safe positive environment. Our instructor’s will make sure you and your pet are prepared for real life situations. We will focus on fluency of your exercises as a team making sure there is good communication, clarity and creativity. We strive to build your confidence and ensure you are consistent with your interactions, providing tools that you can expand your personal potential. At the Fundamental level we also begin to increase the duration, distance, distraction, diversity and difficulty of several of the exercises.

Cost for 6 weeks is $300 plus tax, or $50 per class.

Focus and Control Through (FACT) Games

We will use games to build trust in increasingly distracting environments, developing reliability in stationary positions and build skills in off-leash handling. The goal is to keep training as engaging for the handler as it is for the dog.

Building on what we learned in Fun Fundamentals, the class will include:

Focus Games: Develop self control and build value in calm behaviour in distracting environments.

Off-leash Games: Once the game is on, we build our dog’s reliability and our confidence with our dogs off-leash.

The class sizes are kept small to allow everyone enough space to work on long lines as we develop our off-leash skills.

Cost for 6 weeks is $300 plus tax, or $50 per class.

Note: A good connection and impulse control are required for this class. Dogs must be friendly with other dogs and people, on and off leash.

Living Their Best Life: A Guide To Enrichment

6 weeks, duration approximately 45 minutes

Do you have an overactive dog? Problems when you leave your pet alone?

This class was designed to help owners gain a new perception of their dog, helping see things through their eyes. Learn new ways to care for your dog through brain stimulation, also known as Enrichment. Enrichment is easy and fun for owners and dogs of all ages. Throughout the five weeks we will go over a series of topics ranging from scent work to bonding. Each week showing you a new way to engage with your dog and get their minds working through physical and social surroundings. Using easy DIY projects and special equipment, you can find what peaks your dog’s interest.

Cost for 6 weeks is $300 plus tax, or $50 per class.

Trick Class

Join us for a fun time in our new class! You can learn new skills and your dog can learn new tricks. Trick dog training appeals to all dogs and is a great bonding experience for you with your dog, allowing him to participate in more areas of your life. Take a chance on trick training, what have you got to lose.

The CKC recently announced its new Trick Dog Titles which are based on the very popular “Do More With Your Dog” program. In this 6 week course, using positive training techniques, you will learn the basic skills you need to help your dog learn new behaviours and you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your new tricks,

It is not mandatory but if you desire and for an additional cost, you can be evaluated for CKC Trick Dog Titles on week 6 by our certified evaluator.

Note: A good connection and impulse control are required for this class. Dogs must be friendly with other dogs and people, on and off-leash. Safety and fun will be stressed.

Cost for 6 weeks is $300 plus tax, or $50 per class.

Let our professionals help choose the right training for you.

Nose Work

This 6-week class will introduce your puppy to the wonderful sport of Nose Work through a series of fun games. Class is geared towards puppies 4 months and over. Owner(s) should bring plenty of good-quality, high-value treats.

Looking for a great way to keep your pooch busy? Why not try an activity that’s both fun and mentally stimulating like Nose Work!

Nose Work offers your dog a fun outlet to utilize their natural ability/desire to hunt and find things. Dog’s have an amazing sense of smell and this is a sport that any dog can do, young or old, fast or slow. It gives them not only mental and physical stimulation it’s an easy way to keep them busy and entertained. Building a good foundation of scent detection skills will enable them to successfully face new and greater challenges within the sport. Nose Work builds confidence, gives them a job, helps build strong problem solving skills and helps create a wonderful bond between owner and pet–all while being fun and rewarding.

Whether you want to compete in the sport of nose work or just play the game, we will take you on a path of preparing you and your dog.

Cost for 4 weeks is $200 plus tax, or $50 per class of approximately 45-minute classes!

Dancing with Dogs Class

Folks of all ages can continue to work and enjoy their dogs in a supervised training environment. No dance experience is needed. Individuals can work on their own dance routine, steps and speed to match their personality and ability.

We often mesh everyones segments together to dance to a whole tune.

Specialty Classes

Advance training, conformation, private lessons and more.

Registration must be made in advance.

Advance

Group classes- group lessons- six week session, must pass intermediate level, 45 minute class.

Class starts with a review of all commands and hand signals under medium distraction migrating to heavy distraction. Perfecting skill performance and reliability in advanced levels. Working on control by adding duration, distance, distraction and diversity. We also include the use of our Fit Paw equipment

Cost for six weeks is $133.40 (includes tax!)

Rally-O

Group lessons – six week session, must have Intermediate level, 45 minute class (must have a minimum enrollment)

Rally-O is a sport in which the dog and handler complete a designated course. A sign at each station announces the skill required.The dog and handler either on or of leash proceed through a course of 10 -20 stations.This class ends in a structured competition….for FUN !!!!

Feel like having some fun? Come try out our challenging courses. Stimulating for both handlers and dogs.

Cost for six weeks is $133.40 (includes tax!)

Conformation

Preparing dogs and handlers for teamwork and good attitude. We cover CKC regulations, judging procedures, breed standards and allowed equipment. We practise handling, stacking, and gaiting. Lots of fun practising mock classes and run throughs making sure both you and your dog are ready and comfortable

First Aid for Dogs and Cats

This unique workshop is being taught by Dr. Frank Nichols with a career spanning several decades in small animal medicine. The aim of this course is to give owners a guide to first aid for dogs and provide practical instruction for treating minor cuts and ailments. It can also give the pet parent an insight into potentially problematic conditions that need immediate veterinary care and those that can be managed at home.

Private Lessons

Held either in your home, in our training room or outside in our training yard. Helping you feel better about behavioral problems such as dog/human aggression, problematic resource guarding, dominance, anxiety issues and leadership problems.

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REASONS TO BRING YOUR DOG TO THE FOCUS FORWARD TRAINING CENTRE:

Classes

Registration must be made in advance.

Puppy Principles

Elementary Essentials

Fun Fundamentals

Focus and Control Through (FACT) Games

Living Their Best Life: A Guide To Enrichment

Trick Class

Let our professionals help choose the right training for you.

Nose Work

Dancing with Dogs Class

Specialty Classes

Registration must be made in advance.

Advance

Rally-O

Conformation

First Aid for Dogs and Cats

Private Lessons

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