Terry Simons
New To Dog Agility - Equipment Intro-No Experience Necessary,
Lots of cookies, toys and a leash of course. This class is available for up to 8 dogs and their campers.
All dogs will remain on leash for some of the exercises so that we can get the most out of the class.
An attempt of getting all dogs onto all the obstacles (tunnel, jump, A frame, low teeter) is the goal, and hopefully we are successful, but if not, we will get you on as much as we can with the most amount of fun!
Finding Your Dog’s Balance Lots of cookies and patience.
This class is available for up to 8 dogs and their campers.
Core strengthening in dogs is just as important as it is in our own human lives. Everything comes from the core, and if you have a dog that is into some form of dog sports then you know the importance of a strong core.
Teaching your dog to balance on a ball - or how to keep their paws under them - Pick up your paws and many other exercises!
Advanced Beginning Agility Lots of cookies, toys and a leash of course.
This class is available for up to 8 dogs and their campers.
This is for the dog and handler team that have been taking classes and hasn’t made that step to competition and/or those teams that are competing at the novice/starters level and want to fine tune their handling to help them to the next level. Simple sequencing with instructions on how to improve your team’s performance.
Advanced Agility-Experience Required
This class is available for up to 8 dogs and their campers.
This is for the dog and handler teams that have been competing in agility. Their dog knows all the obstacles and they want to be challenged and take a step to better their performance in the ring.
Teaching Pressure and Commitment for Agility Distance
ALL LEVELS This class is available for up to 8 dogs and their campers.
Strategic Pairs Game - Amazing Race
Class size is limited to 4 teams of 2 people. It is imperative that all team members and their partners arrive on time as special instructions to the Amazing Race will be given at the beginning of the class and then teams will run.
Two campers and their dogs compete as a team on a special agility course. You and your teammate will need to work together to get through the course while working through challenges! The team with the fastest time will be the Big Winner!
Mini Clinics.
Address those things you and your 4 footed teammates need to get just right. Improve your communication skills and have the dream team you always knew you could. This small setting will allow you to work and watch in a tiny class environment - the very best way to learn and create an open flow of information and communication.
FETCH TEST
Suzanne Knox
Intro to Kayak and Paddleboard - no experience needed but be prepared to get wet!
Learn to Kayak & Paddleboard with your very best buddy. People/Dogs with NO EXPERIENCE. The class is limited to 8 dogs and their campers.
Intermediate Kayak and Paddleboard- some experience required
Classes on water. Some experience is needed, the camper must be able to get up and up & down on board or kayak. The class is limited to 8 dogs and their campers.
Can Your Dog dog-paddle? No experience required
This class is available for up to 8 dogs and their campers. Does your dog know how to swim? Or are they just thrashing around and trying to get back to shore? Teach your dog this fundamental skill and give them a lifesaving skill, as well as a joyful activity for the rest of their life.
Water Games
This class is available for up to 8 dogs and their campers. Dogs will compete on a timed course involving water skills and beach play! Prizes!
Kayak Tour-experience required
Experience required. Limit of 6 Campers. Enjoy a scenic paddle along the shores of Lake Tahoe
Suzanne LeRoy
Introduction to Scent Work - no experience required
This class is available for 10 campers. Scent Work is a sport that mimics the task of working detection dogs to locate a scent and communicate to the handler that the scent has been found. This class will teach you the basics and get you started on an exhilarating sport in that any dog, at any age, can be successful. Real-life detection dogs are trained to search for a variety of things–drugs, explosives, human remains, currency, humans (such as for Search and Rescue), and much more. Scent Work takes this amazing working relationship and turns it into a fun game that any dog can play.
Scent Work Challenges- experience required for both dog & handler
This class is available for up to 8 dogs and their campers. Learn more complex techniques and advanced scent hides.
Find My Keys - no experience required
This class is available for 10 campers and dogs. Teach your dog to find lost items like keys. Train your dog to follow specific scents and find “lost keys” or any other item.
Antler Hunt - no experience required
This class is available for up to 10 dogs and their campers. This class is about the fastest-growing sport in Dog World-Shed Antler Hunting!
Using plastic antlers that have been covered in “deer scent” your dog will be taught to hunt antlers. After this class, your dog will have the ability to find “real” antlers in the wild. Shed deer antlers are used as chew treats for dogs, buttons, door handles, home decor, and more.
Show Me the $money$
This class is available for 10 campers. Teach your dog to sniff out $ all while teaching and sharpening your dog’s scent work skills.
Scent Work Games
This course is limited to 12 campers. Have some and playfully sharpen those nosework skills with these games.
Animal Actors
Ever wonder how other dogs end up on the silver screen or on websites? Do you think your dog has what it takes to be star quality? Learn the skills needed to get your dog into the show biz! Learn what’s required and how to register for entertainment industry roles including web, movies, and television. Then test to see if your dog is ready for the ‘big time.”
Joe Bailey
Novice Rally
This course is limited to 10 campers. Learn the basics! Follow an obedience type course using signs and while talking to your dog. This is “fun” obedience.
Intermediate Rally
This course is limited to 10 campers. Experience or Instructor permission is required. Level up to the next level of “fun” obedience.
Advanced Rally
This course is limited to 10 campers. Experience or Instructor permission is required. Level up to the next level of “fun” obedience.
Incorporating Play into Training Sessions
This course is limited to 10 campers. Teaching your dog to play tug and drop it; play using multiple tug toys for drive and engagement; games with the tug toys or treat pouches for more food-motivated dogs; retrieve to your hand. Different games for fun and to encourage play and drive. Various reinforcers: treat & train device, puzzles, treat-dispensing toys, muffin tins with tennis balls and treats, etc.
Novice Tricks
Choose from a variety of tricks to teach your dog. Testing will be available at camp for Trick titles.
Intermediate Tricks - experience required or instructor consent
This course is limited to 10 campers. Choose from a variety of tricks to teach your dog. Testing will be available at camp for Trick titles. 10 tricks are required for a title.
Reliable Recall
Tired of your dog having selective hearing when you call? Want a reliable recall, in spite of distractions? This is the class for you.
Loose Leash Walking
This class is available for up to 5 campers. This method transforms your dog’s leash from a source of conflict into a metaphorical "telephone line" through which communication flows equally in both directions. 100% positive, simple, and fun!
Wendy Hart
Rock Solid Recall
Improve your recall results with tried and true techniques for getting a consistent response. Class is limited to 10 dogs and their campers.
Leash Reactivity - no experience required
Specializing on aggression in Dogs, this lecture and demo are for any camper and dog who have experienced some “misbehavior” while their dog is on leash. Does your dog get too excited? Start to bark or growl? Go from being a love bug to Godzilla if they see another dog or person while on leash? Learn from the best on positive ways to correct unruly, fear-aggressive, or “I’m in a naughty mood” behavior!
Problem Solving
Learn to anticipate your dogs behavior and shape his responses in positive ways. Class is limited to 10 dogs and their campers. Help your dog put his best paw forward by teaching him confident, appropriate responses and building a communication bridge. A great class to learn how to shape away those cringe worthy moments.
Separation Anxiety Basics
Learn some of the many symptoms of separation anxiety and ways of soothing those jangled doggie nerves. Separation anxiety is a complex issue and breaking it down and learning some desensitizing techniques can dramatically improve your dogs life (and yours).
Clicker Training & Treat delivery
You can do everything else right, but get the treat delivery & timing wrong and you are creating extra work for yourself and extra frustration for your dog. Class is limited to 10 dogs and their campers. Learn the tricks the pro’s use to build that communication bridge!
Teach your dog to know colors
Use clicker training to teach your dog to differentiate between colors!
Loose Leash Walking
This class is available for up to 5 campers. This method transforms your dog’s leash from a source of conflict into a metaphorical "telephone line" through which communication flows equally in both directions. 100% positive, simple, and fun!
CGC
Is your dog a “Good Citizen?” Show the world and get your certifications. Training sessions to prepare you for the Canine Good Citizen test. A CGC is earned when the dog and handler together master ten basic skills. Canine Good Citizen instills confidence and good manners for your dog(s) in and out of the house. Accomplishing CGC builds a long-lasting relationship between you and your dog, all while practicing good behavior in public.
CGCA
The next level up of Canine Good Citizen. More advanced skills, impulse control, and advanced cues. If a dog has already earned their CGC, in order to receive their CGCA they must prove able to do ten more advanced skills, such as proper recall.
Therapy
A therapy dog certification means that both handler and dog have completed a series of advanced tests that will prepare them for a life in community service. Once certified a therapy dog is qualified to volunteer in a variety of different community service situations, such as rehabilitation facilities, libraries, hospitals, disaster sites, airport ambassadors, doctors’ offices, and schools. A therapy dog will work comforting children that are learning new skills all the way to giving lonely seniors some cuddly company. A therapy dog and their owner work in unison to improve the lives of people around them. WE DO TRAINING FOR THERAPY TESTING. ACTUAL TESTING IS DONE THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION YOU CHOOSE TO WORK WITH.
Katie McGuire
Advanced Agility-Experience Required
This class is available for 10 campers and. dogs This advanced class will focus on sharpening your agility skills and perfecting each object. Build your agility dream team!
Novice Agility-Knowledge of Obstacles Required
This class is available for 10 campers and dogs. This class is for campers that already know the obstacles and are ready to start running the course.
Let’s Go, Bar Hopping! Single Jump Exercises
This class is available for 10 campers and dogs. There is more than one way to take a jump! Teaching different jump cues, like turning tightly around a wing, jumping forward in extension, and pushing to the backside of a jump will facilitate clear communication, and result in faster and more efficient agility runs. The best part is that you only need one jump to work on all of these skills!
*No agility experience necessary; this class can be taken as an introduction to jumping, or as an advanced skill to shave seconds off of your time in the ring.
The Magic of Free Shaping
This class is available for up to 10 dogs and their campers. Free shaping is a type of training where we teach behaviors in gradual steps, with a marker (like a clicker) and rewards. In particular, free shaping relies on the dog offering behaviors rather than being prompted or manipulated to do them. This makes free shaping one of the best ways to provide your dog with mental stimulation, strengthen their learning skills, build motivation & engagement, and teach behaviors that are likely to be retained for much longer than skills taught with other methods. In this class we will use free shaping to learn; Go to Your Bed/Mat, Sad Puppy (chin rest), beginning perch work (On Your Mark/front paws on an elevated surface), and how to play the Hot & Cold game.
*All levels welcome
*Understanding of the clicker or specific marker is highly recommended
Building Focus & Engagement
This class is available for up to 10 dogs and their campers. Ever have trouble getting your dog to pay attention to you, especially in public or around distractions? Focus & engagement are more than just nice to have, they are crucial keys to success in all dog training! A focused dog is able to listen to any cues you may give and an engaged dog is enthusiastic & ready to work. This class introduces basic concepts and exercises to help build focus & engagement with your do.
*All levels welcome
*Understanding of the clicker or specific marker is highly recommended
Novice Tricks
A fun way to sneak in some extra training that your dog will love. Beginner level.
Intermediate Tricks-experience required or instructor consent
This class is available for 10 campers and dogs. Choose from a variety of tricks to teach your dog. Testing is available at camp for tricks titles. 10 tricks required.
Barb & Diane
Photographing Fido
Learn from the professionals how to get the best photos of your adorable pup. Simple tricks and techniques.
Camp Photo
Our photographic team will be at the beach Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning to take your official camp photo at the pier. Please make it a point of stopping by and getting your photo taken during those times.
Beth Williams
Physical Therapy for your dog
Physical Therapy: Learn from a professional what physical therapy for animals involves and how PT can improve the health and well-being of our dogs at any age, before and/or after injury or surgery. Whether your dog is a star athlete or a couch potato, learn to spot the telltale signs of injury or aging and how therapy can help.
Massaging your dog
Everyone loves a massage! Learn the techniques to soothe tired muscles and make your dog feel wonderful. A great bonding class, please bring a towel or blanket for your dog.
Stability/core exercise
A strong core is as important for your dog as it is for you for optimal function and stability. Strengthen their core with these simple exercises to keep your pup looking and feeling great.
Fitness with Fido
It’s always more fun to exercise with a partner and your dog is always ready when you are! Here is a fitness routine you can do with your dog to keep you both in great shape.
Sport warm up and cool down
All sports enthusiasts know the importance of the right warm-up and cool-down. The right exercises make all the difference between a good workout and a great one while also minimizing the possibility of injury. Learn these simple exercises for maximum long-term health.
Super Seniors
Learn gentle exercise, enrichment activities, and environmental modifications to help our older dogs live their best lives.
Pupnic
This class is available for up to 16 dogs and their campers. Sample a variety of healthy food that you can enjoy and share with your dog in a picnic setting. See what your dog prefers when given the opportunity to choose - fruits, vegetables, cheeses, proteins. Bring a towel/blanket /chair and let's eat!
Hoop It Up
Join us to make and decorate a "hula hoop" to take home, enjoy learning individual tricks, and play group games that incorporate the hoop as a prop. We may even enter the talent show with a group "Hounds Hooping it Up" routine!
Zen Dog
Learn how life with dogs improves our health/well-being and decreases our stress levels, and how we can return the favor with aromatherapy, music, breathing, petting/massage, foods, and an optimal balance of activity and rest for our canine companions.
Leslie Miller
Take it to the Mat
Teach your dog to love his bed. Dogs are naturally den animals so give them the opportunity to embrace this “safe place” and give them a life skill that will pay off over & over again. This same learning process can be transferred to crate training.
Rest My Chin... Where?(Insert Item)!
Limit of 8 Campers and their dog. This class takes a look at the chin rest from a few different perspectives, how it can be used, different types and variations. Whether you are new to the chin rest or have a solid chin rest your dog will think it's ridiculously fun!!
Items needed:
Lots of treats! Cut up about the size of a pea (100+)
Handy treat pouch or easily accessible pocket
A few of your dog’s favorite toys
Water/water bowl
Mat/towel
Scratch Board
Rock Solid Recall
Class is limited to 10 dogs and their campers. Improve your recall results with tried and true techniques for getting a consistent response.
Loose Leash Walking
Limit of 5 Campers and their dog.This method transforms your dog’s leash from a source of conflict into a metaphorical "telephone line" through which communication flows equally in both directions. 100% positive, simple, and fun!
Lauren Pena (& Peaches)
Intro to Kayak and Paddleboard-no experience needed but be prepared to get wet!
Learn to Kayak & Paddleboard with your very best buddy. People/Dogs with NO EXPERIENCE. Class is limited to 8 dogs and their campers.
Intermediate Kayak
Classes on water. Some experience is needed, camper must be able to get up and up & down on board or kayak. Class is limited to 8 dogs and their campers.
Can Your Dog dog-paddle? No experience required
This class is available for up to 8 dogs and their campers. Does your dog know how to swim? Or are they just thrashing around and trying to get back to shore? Teach your dog this fundamental skill and give them a lifesaving skill, as well as a joyful activity for the rest of their life.
Water Games
This class is available for up to 8 dogs and their campers. Dogs will compete on a timed course involving water skills and beach play! Prizes!
Doga
Yoga with your dog. Gentle stretching, breathing exercises, and gentle strengthening for you and your best friend.
Guided Meditation
Mindful intention and focus on a gentle mental journey with your dog.
Dev Sperber
Mark Training for Agility: Q&A with demos on solving common performance problems in agility
This course is limited to 8 campers. Start line stays, weave entries, contact performance, and over-arousal at trials, this class will focus on how to mark training can be used to solve perplexing performance problems away from agility equipment, by building and balancing your dog’s drive and thoughtfulness, while also teaching independent obstacle performance.
Channel Heeling
This course is limited to 8 campers. A fun and positive way to teach dogs to heel that is so simple, it feels like cheating! Class is limited to 10 dogs and their campers. Learn the basics then follow up with the first steps with both of you putting your best paw forward.
Turning Tricks Into a Freestyle Routine
This course is limited to 8 campers. Dogs love a routine. Learn to string those tricks and behaviors into a free-flowing routine and a joyful expression of true teamwork.
Nutrition
Don’t just feed your dog, give him the diet that will make him THRIVE. Our professional nutritionist with over 10 years of experience will guide you through a variety of food options designed to help you find the one that’s perfect for your canine best buddy. Open class discussion to get you started in the right direction.
Private Session with the nutritionist
Quick 15 minute session with Lori so you can talk about your nutritional challenges and get some helpful ideas.
Lori Mills
Nutrition
Don’t just feed your dog, give him the diet that will make him THRIVE. Our professional nutritionist with over 10 years of experience will guide you through a variety of food options designed to help you find the one that’s perfect for your canine best buddy. Open class discussion to get you started in the right direction.
Private Session with the nutritionist
Quick 15 minute session with Lori so you can talk about your nutritional challenges and get some helpful ideas.
Joanne Osburne
Regenerative Medicine for Dogs
Did you know regenerative medicine is an option for your dog? Stem cells and/or platelet-rich plasma are powerful tools in helping our dogs live their best lives. We'll discuss what the heck these things are, what they have to offer our canine friends, as well as their limitations.
Addressing Cancer in our Dogs: What you should know about recent technologies
Chances are you and/or your friend(s) have lost a beloved dog to cancer. In the last few years, some exciting technologies have been developed that change the options available to us in dealing with canine cancer. We'll discuss these technologies so you'll have a better arsenal to address the threat of cancer, and - hopefully, you won't need it - newer options in treating cancer in our dogs.
Scott Pack
Lure Coursing
Chase the plastic “bunny” around a large field course. This activity brings out the prey drive in your dog and gives him an excellent opportunity to really stretch and run, run, run across the field! One of our most popular activities!
Victoria Rhodes
Crafts
Fleece beds, snuffle mats, picture frames, wreaths, snuffle balls, bandana’s,