05/09/2026
🐾 Level Up Your Skills – Week 1! 🐾
What a great start to our new block! It was so good to see everyone back and ready to get stuck in. 💪🐶
We kicked things off by recapping the basics, including our engagement game, loose lead walking and practising those all-important handler skills. We even had a couple of our Level 2 dogs working off lead and walking beautifully to heel — fantastic progress! 👏
We then worked on:
✨ Building recall value and reward placement
✨ Using movement to create motivation
✨ Cooperative care and progressing our chin rest
✨ Stays — building duration, distraction and distance
✨ Finishing with our relaxation exercise to help everyone switch off and settle
A really positive first session back, with lots of great teamwork and some lovely progress already.
Great start, everyone — here’s to another fantastic block! 🐾