time for manners

[banshee]

Hi

is there any greyhoundfriendly obedience classes in stok on trent ?

Thank you

[spencekelliem]

im taking ellie to Benefit Dogs dog training classes starting on the 7th feb, they are based in haughton near stafford. The classes arent specifically designed for greyhounds, but they have experience in training them. They currently have a male grey doing the kennel club good citizen dog scheme gold award, having passed his bronze and silver.

They have come highly recommended from a friend who takes her dog there.

Website - www.benefitdogs.co.uk

[cadbury]

pm lisa and join us at the kennels on a saturday morning.

Edited to say if you want to structed classes in a class enviorment and don't mind travelling to wolverhampton Benifit are very good and so are Pads who run on different night at the same venue. Both clubs are good but focus on different things so I'd advise visting both watching a class then choosing. Before signing up to or paying fee's to any club go and vist the class chat to the trainers, test their greyhound knowlege (Ie, you trian a greyhound to down rather than sit as some find it uncormfatable and that if you've got a greyhound that does fetch it's a bl**dy mircale or you've got an ear marked lurcher )and see if you feel comfortable with them.
Many years ago I signed up to a class with out visitng a class in action. The venue was a scout hut, with 40 dogs crammed in, 20 on one side of the hut and 20 at the other so dogs were directly opposite each other. The noise was unearving for both me and the dog, this ment the trianer shouted constanly. From day one dog was expected to sit by your side quielty, you to watch the demo and you + dog were to go up into the center and copy it. It was hell, I'm a nervous person with a nervous dog. worst of all if you had a yappy dog the trianer fitted it with a spry comander and if it even as much as looked up from the floor it got sprayed. The poor dogs were facing each other across a scout hut for DoG's sake. All of this was at a KC run club, the trianer was a high ranking kc lab breader, the club was well ranked in both agilty and flyball kc leagues.

opps edited again- I've got a contact number for roz at pads if you want it, pm me.
Nicky ;D

[banshee]

Hi

And thank you

Unfortunately my way of getting around (unless boyfriend is taking me) is limited, i am working on getting my license but stuck at the moment with it.

Its not as such a full course of instructor training I'm after, i am after a few hours where i can get in the right direction on how, what and when (especially Kiwi needs manners, and he has selective hearing)

Its not lack motivation, just not having found the right way.

I invested in a clicker, read loads of books one thing is reading another is understanding it (I'm not always good at theory, i prefer learning by doing), got a extension training lead and 10 m training lead.

Just have no clue where to start.

And i just managed to get a deadline for getting some manners into them, my sister is coming to visit in late march and i wouldn't mind making a good impression