Training and Obedience
We can offer the basics to the highest advanced obedience, so if you want to give your new dog/puppy a good start, or compete in any of the many dog sports, we can help.
Dog Training and Obedience
General dog training and obedience, from loose lead walking to manners around other dogs or people.
We can do the basics such as sit, stay and recall. This is a 1-2-1 session and can be adapted to you and your dog’s needs. Please remember this is a one-hour session so please come with your top two training priorities in mind.
We also do advanced competition level obedience sessions and group classes. These are usually one hour training sessions where we train the dog, but more importantly teach you how to carry on training your dog. During your session we will advise you if we feel further training sessions are needed.
Please bring your normal lead and collar/harness. Please bring treats, an open mind and a sense of humour. We also do advanced competition level obedience sessions and group classes. Our advanced group classes are blocks of 5 two-hour lessons.
Obedience Training
Loose lead walking
Reset Training
Drop off Training
Beyond the Basics
Obedience Training Sessions
General dog training and obedience, from loose lead walking to manners around other dog’s or people. This is a 1-2-1 class and can adapted to you and your dog’s needs. Your trainer will be Simon.
Loose lead walking
Does your dog walk you? We know how stressful being dragged along by your dog can be. Or even having a dog that walks nicely most of the time but then gets over excited and darts away dragging you with him.
We can help, we can show you how to take the stress out of walking your dog and make walking your dog a more pleasurable experience.
We will cover
- Why do dogs pull?
- Techniques specific to your dog to stop pulling.
- Safety.
There are no quick fixes in dog training, but you will see a change in your dog during this workshop, then it’s down to you to take the information away and put it into practice. We may advise you on collars leads, please bring your normal equipment with you.
Reset Training Course
Are you struggling with your dog? Terrible recall, no manners around humans or other dogs!
Is your dog easily distracted, more interested in what’s going on over there, than what you are asking him to do!
Then this method is for you, we go right back to the basics, the fundamentals!
We start by building a stronger bond, using engagement and focus. We then imprint the behaviours you want to see in your dog. This course sets a positive and stable foundation for a lifetime of future training.
One of the methods we use is Marker training:
Marker training is a simple way of dog training that communicates with the dog what behaviour is correct and desired by the handler. This is where we use a clicker or marker word to encourage the behaviours we want to see.
This is a science-based teaching method that simplifies communicating with the dog with positive reinforcement.
We teach the dog through his or her own thinking and actions instead of luring, correcting, or physically manipulating the dog into the correct position or behaviour.
It allows the learning of behaviours’ to be established quickly with food reward.
When the dog makes the choice to offer the behaviour the dog is rewarded. The more you reward the desired behaviour, the more the dog will offer that behaviour again for their reward.
This course is run over 4 weeks
Week 1, Introduce marker training (Clicker/verbal) and how to get engagement/focus
Week 2/3 Start to shape behaviours, engagement and focus
Week 4 put it all together
We will supply a clicker if required.
Minimum of 2 dogs are required to run this course!
All our workshops can be found on our online booking system.
Drop off Training
The fast and convenient way to train your dog!
What is Drop Off Dog Training? This program is designed for convenience and speed!
When you love your dog, but you need the behaviours to stop and don’t even know where to start, let alone have time for it……
This program is also ideal for new puppy or new dogs in your life too!
Want to just drop off your dog for a couple of hours a week and let us do all the hard work while you run errands and deal with life? We are flexible in our training approach if you want to book 4 days back-to-back that’s fine with us. Dog training: is what we excel in!
How It Works:
Once you and the trainer agree on the dog’s goals, we will begin training in real life problem areas, at a time suited to all parties. Drop off your dog for 2 hours each week for 3 weeks in a row. We will teach your dog all the obedience commands and work correcting any behaviours you feel need to be changed. We will do this while you go run errands, grab a bite to eat, or just take some alone time and relax.
After 1 1/2 hours is up, come back and we will show you what your dog learned. When it’s time to go home, you can enjoy your tired, calm, relaxed, and trained dog. Plus, we can give you any homework ideas and tips On the 4th week, you will join us for the last hour session (Transfer session) so we can teach you the commands and hand signal your dog learned and how to incorporate them into your daily life to get the solutions you need. This program will include 1 follow up session to make sure that the new behaviours are working great for you.
What issues can be addressed with the Drop off Dog Training Program?
- Aggression Dog on Dog
- Aggression People related
- Fear issues
- Separation Anxiety
- General Obedience
- Walking on Loose Leash
- And many more!
Benefits of doing Drop off Training Program
Convenient, you don’t even have to be present for 3 of the training sessions
It takes a quarter of the time to accomplish and fix issues that your dog is displaying.
- We do all the hard work and just show you the hand signals and voice commands at the transfer sessions
- We show you in the transfer sessions how to use the commands in everyday life, we even go to real life areas to demonstrate the behaviour and how to use the commands.
All you must do is be at the transfer sessions and do maintenance training after we are done with the 3 weeks of training! EASY!
The Drop off Training Program includes:
- 3 x 2 – hour training sessions done by an experienced Dog Trainer per week for 3 weeks.
- 1 x 1 – hour transfer sessions done at the end of block of training.
- 1 x 1 – hour follow up sessions to cover any issues that may pop up and to continue the maintenance phase
Total Hours for the Drop off Training Program: = 8 hours
Beyond the Basics
Mastering Obedience in Every Environment
Elevate your dog’s training journey with “Beyond the Basics: Mastering Obedience in Every Environment” workshop! Join us for a transformative experience where your dog/pup learns to excel in any situation. Expert trainers, tailored techniques, and a supportive community await. Unleash your dog’s full potential.
🐾 Unleash the Potential of Your Dog with Beyond the Basic! 🐾
Does your dog transform from a master of commands at home to a scatterbrain outside? Fear not, because we have the perfect solution! Our specialised workshop is designed to help your dog conquer the great outdoors with confidence.
Inside, they’re champs, but the streets pose a challenge? This is completely normal! Our expert trainers understand the stumbling blocks and are here to guide your dog through them. We’ll transform your outdoor walks into enjoyable experiences for both you and your canine companion.
Tailored to each dog’s pace and capabilities, our program focuses on building confidence in both the dog and the handler. From the park to bustling streets, we’ll teach your dog to thrive in various environments.
Say goodbye to outdoor awkwardness and hello to a streetwise, well-behaved dog!
Join Beyond the Basics and embark on a journey where your dog learns, grows, and conquers the world outside your door. Because every dog deserves to be a street-smart sensation!
Suitable for all levels of dogs, puppies too!
A WhatsApp group will be made to keep everyone up to date on the locations for each week, however the first few weeks will be in the car park behind our unit (Ceiling2floor).
Beyond the Basics are workshops are the perfect place to build on your dog’s engagement, neutrality and to have an environmentally stable dog. You will get them to work them in a control manner around, other dogs, people, and distractions in lots of different environments through a series of neutrality drills.
Open to all breeds, ages, and levels. If you are struggling with reactivity, please book in to a 1-2-1 training session with one of our trainers so we can give you some training/guidance before booking into this workshop.
Some of the things we will cover throughout the workshops:
- Loose lead walking in high distractions areas
- Engagement (focus on the handler)
- Working in high distraction environments
- Bringing duration to commands
- How to use play to train
- How to cope with reactivity
- plus, much more!
This is a pay as you go option, no need to book a block of sessions.
Can’t come to us? Then we could come to you with our travelling workshops
Don’t want to commit to joining our online Academy we can come to you! We cover the whole of Scotland and Northern England
Please note we need a minimum of 8 dogs to run a travelling workshop and maximum of 16 dogs. Puppies must be 12 weeks old or older. No upper age limit.
Code of Conduct
Dog wellbeing- any dog not deemed fit or cared for, the handler will be excluded from the club. While travelling to and from our training, all dogs are to be secure in the vehicle, in accordance with national laws. Once you have been placed somewhere do not move even if you think it’s been a long time (We will always find you!), we are training the dogs and handlers not testing them. Participants must follow instructions given by any of the team. This is for their own safety.
Anyone not in control of their dog may be excluded.
The 5 Freedoms for Dogs
This is the standard to which we all aspire to provide for our dogs and dogs training with us.
1. FREEDOM FROM HUNGER AND THIRST
2. FREEDOM FROM PAIN, INJURY AND DISEASE
3. FREEDOM FROM DISCOMFORT (temperature, hard bedding etc)
4. FREEDOM FROM FEAR AND DISTRESS
5. FREEDOM TO EXPRESS NORMAL BEHAVIOUR
The 5 Freedoms make us think about all the things that can affect how animals feel. The 5 freedoms remind us every day that we are caring for living breathing creatures. Use the 5 freedoms to assess the quality of life for your own pet. Is he well fed and healthy? Most of these are self-explanatory, but what about number 5? What we mean is please let them sniff and allow them to be a dog!
We at K9 Manhunt & ScentWork Scotland do not take any responsibility for you or your dog whilst doing a workshop/training with us.
We politely ask that you keep your dog always supervised and pick up any mess he has made and dispose of it responsibly.
Please be respectful towards all members of the public/dog owners and their dog