Jan 26, 2022
We are actually 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 under and be sure you enroll! Yow will discover FAQs and extra data right here. We’ll see you in school!
Fundamental Obedience:
Fundamental Obedience Class is designed to assist foster canine study the fundamental abilities 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 abilities akin to sit, down, recall, and extra, all whereas constructing a stronger relationship with their pup earlier than discovering their properties. Fosters are extremely inspired to attend all six lessons. The course is open to anybody presently 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 may disrupt class, akin to reactivity, contact Lyndsey Mosso to schedule personal periods to work along with your foster pup. The utmost variety of fosters who can enroll within the Fundamental 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. Nonetheless, if it is advisable to 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 wish to study extra about elevating a canine within the best, most acceptable, and most profitable method. This 6-week class is targeted on find out how to start a pet’s life with quick construction and coaching, in an effort to mitigate behavioral points that would 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 can happen each Thursday at 10 am. It will likely be hosted at The Watering Bowl Canine Park and Bar. It’s ultimate 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 setting could be laborious for a lot of canine. This digital, 5-part class is directed towards foster canine who’re struggling to regulate from transferring out of the shelter and into a house. We’ll concentrate on find out how to work these pups via the frequent points they’re going through, and stop 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 wish to broaden their training on find out how to scale back transitional habits points and stress within the house. Fosters should not required to attend every class; somewhat, they’ll join the subjects they’re most involved in studying about. SIGN UP HERE!
Naughty Behaviors:
This class is focused in the direction of our pups which might be a bit extra delicate than the remaining and who want just a little further assist with more difficult behaviors. By providing a gaggle class that gives personalised coaching and is targeted on a wide range of behavioral points, we hope that it’ll restrict the returns of animals primarily based on these causes. Our objective is to show handlers to actively work via these points confidently and safely. We’ll focus on what every downside habits seems to be like, find out how to establish these points, and find out how to work via them with totally different coaching workouts.
Our Naughty Behaviors Class is a 4-week class that’s open to any foster who’s encountering more difficult behavioral points or needs to learn to be proactive on these behaviors. Every week will concentrate on one class of habits and can include 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 completely vaccinated canine of 5 months or older can be part of the category. SIGN UP HERE!