Dog Sports

We currently offer multiple sport classes with plans to add more. Some sports are easy to jump into with no dog training experience, but others require a better obedience foundation, and have pre-requisite classes.

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Rally-Obedience 

We teach CKC, and CARO Rally-O at all levels. Rally was Erika's first competitive dog sport with her Newfie mix Stella. She loves the sport so much she became a CARO judge so she could share her love with other Rally teams. 

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Rally is a fun, fast paced version of formal obedience that highlights teamwork over perfection. You and your dog learn to navigate unique courses that test position changes, heeling, stays, and agility skills. You can enter trials to earn titles, and win ribbons, or you can use rally to hone your obedience skills and challenge yourself to learn new things with your dog. If you think traditional obedience training is boring, try this sport instead.

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Agility 

Fast, fun, and lots of excitement, this sport isn't just for people and animals who are super athletic. We focus our classes on teaching the dogs confidence, and obedience off leash. You can do the courses at whatever speed you and your dog are comfortable with. We have a full agility course with full sized jumps, tunnels, weave poles, an A-frame, teeter, and dog-walk. Sign up for fun, exercise, and enrichment with your dog, or continue on to competitive levels.

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Scent Detection

A dog's nose is so amazing, we can't even imagine the things they can perceive. Sport scent detection teaches skills similar to what drug dogs, and bomb dogs learn, but we use essential oils as the target scent instead. Your dog learns to hunt for the scent, and tell you where it is located. They learn to search containers, baggage, rooms, and exterior areas to find the scent. This activity fulfills your dog in ways no other activity can, and it will amaze you how smart your dog is when they are playing a game that makes complete sense to them. 

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We teach the CKC target odours, wintergreen, pine, clove, and anise, but the skills are transferrable to any scent detection organization. 

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Scent detection is low impact, and requires no previous training so we encourage everyone to try it. Puppies, elderly dogs, deaf, and blind dogs, dogs with mobility issues, reactive dogs. . . Everyone is welcome!

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Tracking 

This sport mimics how a police dog would follow a human scent to locate a missing person, track down a perpetrator, or locate evidence at a crime scene. We teach the style of tracking that is needed for IGP titles, or CKC titles. This sport requires very little in way of equipment so it is easy for you to practice at home, or anywhere you can find a grassy area. 

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Your dog will learn to follow a path that you walked, and indicate lost articles along the way. It does require the handler, and dog to travel a short distance, and over varied terrain, but accommodations can be made for handler, or dog disabilities. All ages, and training levels welcome.