Puppy Engagement & Future Sports Stars class series starting 7 February. Sam Lietz will be teaching our next series of Puppy Engagement & Future Sports Stars in February Wednesday evenings, 6:30 - 7:30pm. This class is made up of four 1 hour classes for $120 per pup, with payment due at the first session. Sam limits her class size to five or 6 puppies so everyone gets enough individualized attention for their pup along with the best benefits from environmental distractions.

Our next courses will be held WEDNESDAY February 7 and end when we can get four sessions in (we are flexible and try to work around our busy students’ schedules). Another class is planned for the summer so if you can’t get into the running, please let Sam know you would be interested in a future session.

In this class we will work on engagement skills with distractions, and begin to build a solid foundation for a wide variety of sports including agility, barn hunt, treibball and nose work. This class is NOT going to focus on agility obstacles as we do not believe puppies should be on equipment before their bodies and minds are allowed to mature.

Main skills we will work on include:

1) Engagement games to build focus and connection

2) paw awareness/hind end awareness (aimed at contact behavior)

3) start line/sit stay foundations (impulse control, focus)

4) Play foundations (rewards and connection)

5) Sport manner basics (and what is expected in trial environments)

As a fun bonus we will do an introduction/play a fun game from several main dog sports throughout this series as well! All four of these sports are taught at SchaSam Farm - agility, barn hunt, real world nose work and treibball.

If you are seriously interested/ready to sign up please let Sam know by emailing at SchaSamFarm@yahoo.com for more information or to be put on the list for a future class session.