CURRENT SCHEDULE
All classes are $180 for 1-hr classes that meet once a week for six weeks. Audit spots for online classes are $90. There may be exceptions; please contact us to confirm the price of a class.
MONDAYS
TUESDAYS
ADVANCED RETRIEVE
6-7pm Zoom/Audit Online​
We will have a live and interactive Zoom Meeting for both working and auditing spots. The class is supported by a private Facebook group where everyone is encouraged to ask questions and post videos of your homework.
This series is 14 weeks and $360/$180 for a working/audit spot. We continue to methodically add responsibilities to the dogs' retrieving tasks in obedience and in the field with more proofing exercises. Retrieve Over the High (through/over obstacles), multiples, blind retrieves, and more are introduced. This class is appropriate for competition obedience and hunting/retrievers.
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This is an online Zoom class. Our Zoom slot rotates through a series of obedience topics that are optimized for distance learning.
WEDNESDAYS
THURSDAYS
ADVANCED HEELING
6-7pm Zoom/Audit Online​
We will have a live and interactive Zoom Meeting for both working and auditing spots. The class is supported by a private Facebook group where everyone is encouraged to ask questions and post videos of your homework.
This series is 18 weeks and $400/$200 for working/audit spots. This is where longer assemblies of heeling patterns begin while also maintaining precision of the dogs' heel position. This advanced series delves into handler posture and techniques as well as teaching us to hold our dogs' responsible for their position and attention. Tools are used/explored for corrections and teaching nuanced movement to help the dogs understand how to move their bodies. Figure 8s and halts are built before advancing onto preparation for ring-ready performance.
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This is an online Zoom class. Our Zoom slot rotates through a series of obedience topics that are optimized for distance learning.
BEGINNER NOVICE/NOVICE
6:15pm - 7:15pm
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For those just getting started, puppy prep graduates ready for the next level, or teams looking for more foundation work.
This is for you!!
Step by step exercises in a full sized ring, with take home games and tools.
Teams will be introduced to both verbal and hand signals.
Heeling, with change of directions. Sits, Downs, Stands, Stays, Recalls, and Finishes. Entering and exiting protocols, and leash work.
Week 6 will include a Mock Trial just for fun.
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Class limited to 6 teams.
$180 per team.
Starts 2/24/25, 6 weeks long.
Email appianwayaussies@gmail.com
INTRO TO NOSE (SCENT) WORK
7:30-8:30pm
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Odor will be introduced week one!For the very beginner, those needing a refresher, or those introducing a new dog.Come explore this very fun, very exciting, and incredibly popular sport.All dogs, all breeds, all ages. It's never too early or too late for scent work. In this class you will be introduced to odor, discover how your individual dog searches, touch on air flow and how scent travels and why. And, most importantly, learn how to communicate the FIND!This class will be taught using AKC parameters, odors, and searches (containers, buried, Interiors and exteriors).
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Class limited to 6 teams.
$180 per team.Starts 2/24/25, 6 weeks long.
Email appianwayaussies@gmail.com​
FRIDAYS
SATURDAYS
NOSEWORK
Do you have a dog that loves to sniff? Teach your dog Nosework with our friend Boldly Go Sports!
M-F EVERY DAY
AUDIT ONLINE
INTRO TO RETRIEVE
Audit Online
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This online class is available for audit through our interactive Facebook group. The group has video recordings from our 12+ weeks of live Zoom classes
Lessons start with Chin in the Hand and building a steady and reliable Hold, Grab, and Presentation. The progression is very methodical from moving the dumbbell to the floor, marking, casting, to light proofing games. This class is appropriate for competition obedience and hunting/retrievers.
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This is a past online Zoom class. Purchase of this course gives you access to all recordings of class content as well as the Facebook group to post videos and ask questions for feedback even as an auditor.
FOUNDATION FOR HEELING
Audit Online
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This online class is available for audit through our interactive Facebook group. The group has video recordings from our 18 weeks of live Zoom classes
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Build your dog's understanding of heel position independent of any lures. Help your dogs understand attention in heel while the handler learns their role in providing consistent and clear body language. Teach your dogs cues for turns and begin to assemble pieces of straight line heeling and turns.
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This is a past online Zoom class. Purchase of this course gives you access to all recordings of class content as well as the Facebook group to post videos and ask questions for feedback even as an auditor.