Life Skills Level Two

• Connection training with eye contact (keeping your dog focused on you and less on environmental distractions).

• Body awarness with jump/over work, going around a cone, two on two off a stool, jumping through a hoop.

• Hind end awareness - Back up or out taught with two different formats.

• Touch target work - Creating the behavior when your dog take their nose and taps the base of your hand . Excellent re-focus exercise and great for any dog sports. Turn on a light or ring a bell using paw target training. Cross paws with lid target training.

• Impulse Control/Self Control Exercises.

• Sit stay and down stay with distance duration and distraction.

• Socialization/exposure with other dogs and people.

• Trick training challenges to build core work, stretching and conditioning such as bow and beg, spin left or right and crawl behaviors.

• High energy and easily excitable dogs

• Independent breeds such as northern breeds or terriers

• If you have referred to your dog as “Stubborn” or “Impossible”

• Small Dogs

• If you are looking for a class to help sharpen up your dogs listening skills and increase your bond with your dog, I would recommend the Puppy Manners Level Two class.