Hyper Hounds Dog Training

Young Dog Sequencing & Coaching Agility Workshop

Sunday, April 13 FULL

9:00am-12:00pm

$110+tax

Held at The PlayGround

This workshop will cover important foundation exercises, tips and tricks for your young agility partner. Get your dog started on the right paw with exercises focused on building speed, engagement, agility skills and success!

This workshop is appropriate for puppies from 8 months and older.

Prerequisite: Dogs must be proficient on jumps and tunnels to attend.

Taught by Becky Borton

Canine Conditioning Workshop

Sunday, April 27

1:15pm-2:45pm

$55+tax

Held at Hyper Hounds

This workshop will focus on sharing foundational exercises to help improve your dog's body awareness, mobility, and increase overall strength in key areas. Conditioning our best friend, helps with speed, jumping ability, endurance and overall sport or everyday life performance. It's also a great way to help maintain our dogs weight and provides mental stimulation. The workshop will cover the following topics: Proper warm up, stretches, conditioning exercises, integrative medical teams, nutrition, supplements and body condition.

Taught by Sandy Hovey

Contact Foundations & Coaching Workshop

Sunday, April 27 from 3:00pm-5:00pm

Sunday, May 25 from 9:00am-11:00am

Sunday, June 15 from 3:00pm-5:00pm

$75+tax per session

Held at The Playground

Get started on the right paw with contact training! Foundations and proofing for the AFrame (running or stopped), Dog walkd (running or stopped) and teeter. We will be using foot targeting and mat methods.

Students wishing to do a running dog walk need to communicate with the instructor before registering.

Taught by Becky Borton

Coursework Workshops

Starters/Advanced:

Friday, April 18 FULL

Sunday, April 27

10:00am-12:00pm

$75+tax per session

Held at The PlayGround location

Do your New Year's goals include starting to trial in agility with your dog? This workshop will get you ready to meet those goals! These workshops will help handler and dog teams improve their obstacle commitment, handling, timing of cues, and precision on course.

Masters:

Friday, April 18 3 spots left

Sunday, April 27

12:30pm-2:30pm

$75+tax per session

Held at The PlayGround location

Are you currently competing in agility and looking to test your skills or help perfect them on course? Do your goals include competing at the masters level in AAC, UKI agility and/or attending the regional championships? This workshop is perfect for teams working towards these goals or already competing at this level.

Tricks List 1 Workshop

TBA

1:15pm-3:15pm

Held at Hyper Hounds

$75+tax

Teach your dog a variety of fun tricks that will impress your friends! Tricks can also be used towards attaining your Trick Dog titles with Do More With Your Dog & the CKC!

This intense workshop will include tricks like:

Spin

Wave/High 5

Leg Weave

Walking Between the Legs (forwards and backwards)

Front Paw Targeting

Footsies

Rear Paw Targeting

Back Up

Sit Pretty Jump Over the Arms

Scoot

Taught by Romy from The BarkSide

Intro To Disc Dog Sports

See Speciality Classes for information and to sign up

Held at Hyper Hounds

4 weeks

Maximum 6 working spots, Minimum 3 to run

$TBA + tax

This workshop will teach you and your dog the foundation skills of the sport of disc dog. It will cover retrieval work, basics of throwing, how to get your dog to catch a disc, directional feeding and some fun disc games for teaching engagement and impulse control. If your dog enjoys chasing toys, they will probably really enjoy this fun sport!

Pre-requisite:

-any age is welcome

-toy drive (this means that your dog enjoys playing with toys and will run and chase after toys. They do not need to be bringing it back yet, this is a skill we work on in the workshop)

Taught by Kara Bellingham - part owner of the Calgary Disc Dog Club

Disc Dog Tricks

See Speciality Classes for information and to sign up

Held at Hyper Hounds

4 weeks

Maximum 6 working spots, Minimum 3 to run

$TBA+tax

This class will teach you and your dog a variety of fun disc tricks that you would see in a freestyle frisbee routine. It will cover the foundations skills of how to get started in teaching dog tricks with a disc including impulse control games, the art of communication and body language. You will be taught how to start the tricks safely and in a step by step process. Tricks that will be covered include

Tricks that will be covered include:

Overs

Unders

Flip

Vault Foundation

Rebound

Juggling

Dog Catch

Stall

Trick Throws

Pre Requisites:

-dogs must be over 1 year old

-dog must be catching discs, rollers are ok for long throws but they need to be able to take the disc from your hand if offered.

Taught by Kara Bellingham - part owner of the Calgary Disc Dog Club

Kara's bio:

Have fun with your dog, communicate with your dog and connect with your dog is Kara’s training philosophy! Enjoy and learn from every training moment, improve in what the team is doing and push to get to the next level!

Kara has a true love for all dogs and dog sports. She and her dogs travel across Canada performing with the Superdogs, she is a certified dog trainer with her CPDT-KA and a certified trick dog instructor through Do More With Your Dog (CTDI), is a supporting member of IAABC (International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants), and is a Certified Head Judge and Trainer for Disc with UpDog (CUPHT). Her true passion is Disc Dog and more specifically Freestyle Disc. She attends seminars whenever possible and has trained under some of the top disc dog competitors in the world. Kara has travelled across Western Canada and through the USA competing and placing at a high level in freestyle disc dog with her own dogs, including most recently being multi podiumed as the Canadian National Champion and Runner Up with her two dogs at the 2022 UpDog Canadian Nationals in freestyle disc.

Kara shares her home with her husband Shawn Bellingham who is an UpDog Judge and their 4 dogs Piper, Electric, Treble and Hexadecimal who go everywhere with them! She is a part owner of the Calgary Disc Dog Club, they host competitions, fun matches and seminars where she has helped train many new disc teams.

Refund Policy

Classes are fully refundable up to 5 days before the first class begins. After the 5 day prior class starting window has passed and once classes are in progress the classes are non refundable, non transferable, and there are no make up classes. Our refund policy also includes those that have to miss class due to COVID, injuries, health reasons, change in work schedule, etc.

Group Classes

Group classes are not appropriate for dogs with reactivity/aggression issues or other severe behaviour problems. If you have concerns regarding your dog's behaviour please contact us before registering for a class. Classes are non refundable and non transferable up to five days before your class starts and once it is in session.

You are encouraged to come out and watch a class before registering in a program.

Payments

Payment is due at the time of registration via paypal, e transfer or payment in person with debit or credit. Registrations will not be accepted if payment is not received within 24 hours of enrolment in a course. All classes are six weeks long unless otherwise stated in the description. Each class runs for approximately an hour each week