Course Details
3 WEEK CLASS -
Does your dog think dinner guests came for a personal greeting? Does “wait your turn” sound reasonable until another dog gets the cookie? Maybe you’d love a dog who can relax beside you at a café, wait while you train their housemate, or watch the action at a sport event without losing their mind—or their enthusiasm.
Let’s give your dog a place with a purpose.
In this class, we’ll use mats, beds, platforms,perches, paw targets, and even the occasional camp chair to answer three questions:
- Where should I be?
- What should I do here?
- When is it my turn to go?
We’ll begin by making stations places your dog wants to choose. Then, through games and shaping, we’ll build confident returns, useful positions, patient waiting, and clear releases. Your dog will learn that a station can be a comfortable place to hang out, a starting point for action, or their way of asking, “Can we play again?”
These skills have jobs well beyond the training room. Use them at home while you eat, work, or welcome visitors. Bring a familiar resting place on outings. Use targets to sharpen sport positions and stations to organize start lines and the time between repetitions. If you train two dogs, we’ll explore how one can wait while the other enjoys a turn.
Think of a station as your dog’s home base: somewhere to return, take a breath, and find out what happens next.
Yes, your dog can learn to switch off and still light up when you say, “Your turn!”
Teaching Approach:
Instructor: Heather LawsonHeather Lawson (she/her) is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer - Knowledge Skills Assessed (CPDT-KSA) and also a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner (KPA-CTP), a CGN evaluator and a free-style judge. She has been training dogs and their humans for more that 20 years after deciding that...(Click here for full bio and to view Heather's upcoming courses)
