Training moves into Autumn

The hot weather continues but with an anticipation that the cooler days are not too far away.

This month there are 2 'long weekends' with the Labour Day holiday and Easter Sunday. This makes March a very short training month and since this affects the training of our March Foundation Class we will not have a new Foundation class in April. So our next Foundation Class will start on the first Sunday in May (with the usual Induction session anticipated to be the Wednesday evening before). We apologize that this delay will cause potential new members and their dogs to have to wait an extra month before commencing training.

Our Foundation classes aim to give new members a really good start to their training experience with the Foundation classes focusing on the very basics of positive reinforcement training. New members are usually in in the Foundation class for around 4 weeks, however, with the short training month in March new members would only have had 2 weeks in that class. While the exercises covered in Foundation class are the basics of class 1 and there is an automatic transition to class 1 at the end of the month, Foundation classes are usually significantly smaller than class 1 and there is a focus on learning the very basics, such as use of the 'bridge word' and the importance of the timing of its use.

We are all volunteers at KODTC and aim to provide an excellent dog training experience. We are always looking for motivated members who would like to join our instructors. Rob, our Training Manager is currently looking at breaking instructor training down to a series of elements which will make it is easier for interested members to dip their toes into learning how to train others. The idea is that interested members would initially