Dog Agility Toronto

Course Description:

• This course is designed to provide you and your dog the foundation skills you’ll need to make learning agility fun! We will work on developing focus, confidence and engagement through a series of games and activities that will help to eliminate common struggles and enhance your dog’s learning experience.
• Throughout the course, you will work on advanced skills such as disengagement from distraction, working in proximity with the handler, managing excitement levels, impulse control, developing body awareness, strengthening your connection as a team, and fostering a resilient and optimistic outlook toward new experiences

Prerequisites

• Completion of Foundation Skills or Evaluation Module
• Your dog has to be engaged with you for treats or toys
• Your dog needs a functional recall
• Your dog needs a functional stay with some duration and distance

Course Description:

• Hoopers is an agility-style sport focused on distance handling, using ground-level obstacles like hoops, barrels, tunnels, and gates. It’s all about flowing courses, minimal risk of injury, and maximum enjoyment for you and your dog in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Prerequisites

• Sport Prep for Agility and Hoopers or passing a 1-1 paid evaluation
• Your dog has to be engaged with you for treats or toys
• Your dog needs a functional recall
• Your dog needs a functional stay with some duration and distance

Course Description:

• Take your Hoopers training to the next level with a focus on advanced handling techniques and longer, more dynamic sequences. This course helps teams sharpen their precision and efficiency, enhancing communication and confidence on challenging courses. Perfect for those ready to refine their skills and elevate their Hoopers experience!

Prerequisites

• Completion of Hoopers Level 1 with good proficiency in skills covered or passing a 1-on-1 paid evaluation

Course Description:

• This series will develop advanced impulse control, focus and dog handler engagement
• Learning basic obstacle, handling, flatwork skills, foundation skills needed for contact equipment performance such as comfort on planks.
• Introduce jumps and tunnel performance

Prerequisites

• Sport Prep for Agility and Hoopers or passing a 1-on-1 paid evaluation
• Dogs attending this class must be generally non-reactive to other dogs and tolerant of handling by strangers.

Course Description:

• Building on the skills learned in Level 1, this course will continue to develop handling sequence and flatwork skills
• Further development of plank performance, increased comfort with moving surfaces and teeter noise and introduction to A-Frame and weave pole performance

Prerequisites

• Completion of Agility Level 1 with good proficiency in skills covered or passing a 1-on-1 paid evaluation
• Dogs attending this class must be generally non-reactive to other dogs and tolerant of handling by strangers.

Course Description:

• This course will focus on further development of contact performance skills. The teams will continue to work on weave pole performance, and sequencing while learning how to safely navigate the agility contacts.
• Introduction to the Dog Walk, progression to low teeter and full height A-Frame performance
• Equipment used will be set at low heights to start and slowly progress to full height

Prerequisites

• Completion of Agility Level 2 with good proficiency in skills covered, or passing a 1-on-1 paid evaluation

Course Description:

• This intermediate/advanced level class will focus on the handling skills needed to navigate a agility course
• Teams will continue to refine handling while learning how to read a course and determine the best handling technique to use on a different courses every second while increasing comfort on full height contact equipment, perfecting contact performance and weave skills on alternating weeks.
• Ideal for teams that want to play recreationally or have aspirations to compete.

Prerequisites

• Completion of Agility Level 3 with good proficiency in skills covered, or passing a 1-on-1 paid evaluation – dog/teams from other schools need to be able to sequence 5-6 obstacles and have no issues with contact equipment set to low levels

Course Description:

• Similar to Agility Fun Matches or a House League, each participant gets a specified number of minutes to run the course. You can use toys and treats!
• K9 Sportsplex team members can be asked to judge, score faults, and even include you on a posted brag board for friendly competition if desired!
• There is no formal instruction, but it is supervised for safety, timing, and scoring
• Club can and should be taken multiple times to continue to practice and refine your agility skills

Prerequisites

• Completion of Agility Level 4, and dog/handler is comfortable with all equipment.

  Dogs needing additional work to get comfortable with the Teeter, A-Frame, and/or Dog Walk should re-take Level 3 to gain more comfort on the equipment