Talking Dogs Scentwork – Scent 3 – Skill Builder

Building on the use of search patterns, searches become longer, thresholds become smaller. Hiding scented articles inside items inside other items requires the team to work more accurately and efficiently. Some new on lead searches, such as baggage and postal sacks, may also be introduced.

Talking Dogs Scentwork – Scent 2 – Handling Skills

Scent 2 concentrates on handling skills, introducing directed searches and search patterns. These allow teams to increase the challenge of the searches, including changes of height, duration of search and multiple/zero finds. Building on the foundation searches, this day will push the boundaries and challenge your team.

Talking Dogs Scentwork – Scent 1 – Foundation

Dogs love to sniff and smell their way through the day. Why not harness this skill rather than fighting against it? Learn how to turn your pet dog into a detector dog with Talking Dogs Scentwork®, the UK’s biggest Scentwork association. Talking Dogs Scentwork® offers a great way to have fun …

Competitive Obedience Workshop

We are pleased to be hosting an Introduction to Competitive Obedience Workshop, by Carole Thornley. Are you interested in finding out what is involved in Competitive Obedience? Would you like to learn a new skill to make your at-home training with your dog more interesting? …

Canine First Aid

Would you know what to do if your dog was injured whilst out on a walk? Would you know what to do if your dog was choking or suddenly became very ill? This is the third time we have hosted this Canine First Aid workshop …

Seminar ‘The Holistic Nature of Canine Behaviour Problems’

Cheshire Dog School is pleased to host David Ryan’s highly informative seminar ‘The Holistic Nature of Canine Behaviour Problems’. Behaviour and training problems are often directly linked to the expression of normal behaviour patterns of the domestic dog, but what is “normal” domestic dog behaviour? This one day seminar …

Cheshire Dog School Fun Dog Show

We had a lovely day at the Great Sankey Summer Fair on Saturday – running the Cheshire Dog School Fun Dog Show. The summer fair was a great success, with a good turn out of stalls, events and people AND it was a beautiful sunny day. A huge Well Done! to Clare Johnson, who organised the event. As part of the dog show attraction I took along my own scruffy mutt …

Bronze Good Citizen Testing

We are holding an assessment day for the Kennel Club Bronze Good Citizen Award. Open to everyone who would like to try for their Bronze award, even if you no longer, or never have taken classes with us. To find out more about what is required …

Distraction Challenge

If you would like a dog that listens and responds to you wherever you may be, and whatever distractions may be around, you need to ensure you do some training in different environments and take your training ‘on the road’. With this in mind we are launching a Distraction Challenge competition. Simply upload a short video to our page, of your dog doing some training in a distracting environment …

Distraction Workshop for dogs and owners

Does your dog listen to you when you are home or in a low-distraction environment, but not when you are somewhere very distracting? We are launching a new series of ‘Real-life’ workshops. These 45 minute workshops will take place in distracting, every day environments such as the Town Centre, the Park and other distracting places. We will be helping you with techniques to help your dog focus and listen to you when surrounded by distractions …

Canine Athlete Conditioning Class

***Coming soon***with qualified animal therapist Gail Baker, a must do for any active dogs, especially working dogs (Agility, Flyball, Obedience, Rally, Breed Showing etc.). Canine athlete conditioning class (once a month class). These classes are aimed at any dog/handler at any level of competitive sport …