Jan 26, 2022
We at the moment are providing a wide range of coaching lessons that can assist you get your foster canine from right here to outta right here! Take a look at the descriptions beneath and be sure you enroll! You could find FAQs and extra info right here. We’ll see you at school!
Primary Obedience:
Primary Obedience Class is designed to assist foster canine study the fundamental expertise wanted to enhance their manners and improve adoptability. This 6-week course consists of one-hour, in-person lessons the place fosters and their canine can study foundational expertise comparable to sit, down, recall, and extra, all whereas constructing a stronger relationship with their pup earlier than discovering their houses. Fosters are extremely inspired to attend all six lessons. The course is open to anybody at the moment fostering a canine with Austin Pets Alive! Eligible foster canine have to be totally vaccinated and 5 months or older. This course shall be held on Saturdays at 9 am at The ABGB. SIGN UP HERE!
Foster canine that exhibit behaviors that could possibly be thought-about harmful in a category setting could not attend class.
In case your canine is exhibiting behaviors that might disrupt class, comparable to reactivity, contact Lyndsey Mosso to schedule non-public periods to work along with your foster pup. The utmost variety of fosters who can enroll within the Primary Obedience Class is 10. As a result of every week’s class will construct off of the earlier week, we strongly encourage fosters to come back to all six lessons. Nevertheless, if it is advisable miss a category, please contact Lyndsey Mosso forward of time to work one thing out.
Pet Class:
Pet Class is obtainable to fosters who’ve puppies and need to study extra about elevating a canine within the best, most acceptable, and most profitable approach. This 6-week class is targeted on the right way to start a pet’s life with speedy construction and coaching, in an effort to mitigate behavioral points that might happen sooner or later. Our objective is for a majority of APA! fosters and their puppies to have correct socialization and choices for doing so.
Pet Class is a 6-part, one-hour, drop-in class that may happen each Thursday at 10 am. Will probably be hosted at The Watering Bowl Canine Park and Bar. It’s superb for fosters to come back to each class, however not required if unable to make it on a sure date. SIGN UP HERE!
Transitions Class:
Transitioning from the shelter to a house atmosphere may be laborious for a lot of canine. This digital, 5-part class is directed towards foster canine who’re struggling to regulate from shifting out of the shelter and into a house. We’ll give attention to the right way to work these pups via the frequent points they’re going through, and forestall returns to the shelter by doing so. Fosters and their canine will learn to establish stress-related behaviors and use coaching methods to assist set up calm, collected, and cozy habits within the house.
This digital, 5-part class shall be held on Tuesdays at 6:30 pm. Transitions Class shall be an hour-long drop-in course that’s hosted bi-weekly on Google Meet. This course is open to any fosters who want to broaden their training on the right way to scale back transitional habits points and stress within the house. Fosters usually are not required to attend every class; slightly, they’ll join the matters they’re most occupied with studying about. SIGN UP HERE!
Naughty Behaviors:
This class is focused in the direction of our pups which are a bit extra delicate than the remainder and who want a bit additional assist with more difficult behaviors. By providing a bunch class that gives customized coaching and is targeted on a wide range of behavioral points, we hope that it’ll restrict the returns of animals based mostly on these causes. Our objective is to show handlers to actively work via these points confidently and safely. We’ll talk about what every downside habits seems like, the right way to establish these points, and the right way to work via them with totally different coaching workout routines.
Our Naughty Behaviors Class is a 4-week class that’s open to any foster who’s encountering more difficult behavioral points or desires to learn to be proactive on these behaviors. Every week will give attention to one class of habits and can encompass two one-hour lessons: a digital class on Wednesday at 6:30 pm and an in-person class on Saturday at 10:15 am. Fosters can attend lessons for each habits, or choose and select behaviors that almost all apply to them. Any foster with a totally vaccinated canine of 5 months or older can be a part of the category. SIGN UP HERE!
