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Workshops

Our workshops are designed to help you focus and continue your training with K9 Connect. We offer both "Single Session" workshops (a once off) and a multi-session workshop (4 part or 6 part course).

Upcoming Classes

Depending on what you are looking for, our workshops can focus on basic skills, such as Loose Leash walking, Boisterous dogs and Puppy Socialisation to Tricks, pre-performance classes and Rally.

Most of our workshops are not age specific. So long as your puppy is fully vaccinated and has a basic understanding of sit / drop and wait, then they can participate. We have had 3 - 4 month old puppies complete our Rally or Pre-Performance classes and love it!

They are a great way to focus your training on a specific skill or keep things fresh whilst you wait for your next favourite class to start up!

Our Specialist Workshops are designed to work through specific issues and concerns, helping you understand and support your dog through some challenging behaviours.

If you have booked a package, this page is where you will find your upcoming classes relevant to your package.

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Multi Session Workshops

Our Multi- Session workshops allow us to focus on specific topics and skills, focused on furthering your training, or working through common training issues. Our sessions are often accompanied with online notes and material to help enhance the learning process and information

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Beginners Rally

Our Beginners Rally workshop is a combination of FACE-TO-FACE group classes and ONLINE materials. Offering 6 x 60 minute group classes and access to online notes and videos to keep you on track.

Beginners Rally starts your obedience journey from the very start. We look forward to creating a fun training adventure for you and your dog.

NoseWorks with K9 Nose Fun

Angela from K9 Nose Fun periodically runs some fabulous Nosework classes for us here at K9 Connect. These are usually a once-off taster course, to help introduce the concept of nosework to you and your dog! These classes book out fast and are perfect for ANY dog.

Beginners Tricks

Our Beginners Tricks workshopis a combination of FACE-TO-FACE group classes and ONLINE materials. Offering 6 x 1 hour group classes (fortnightly) and 4 x online modules to access any time on any device to keep your training on the right track between classes.

Beginners Tricks starts building your repertoire of amazingness from the very start. If there are some skills

Loose Leash Walking & Manners

You're probably considering this workshop because you have a dog that likes to pull like crazy on a walk and forgets that you are attached to the other end of the leash.

Often a dog pulling on the leash takes all the fun and enjoyment out of your walks. In addition, we will also address some common manners training such as jumping up, remaining calm as another dog or person passes and so much more!

This workshop offers 4 x 60 minute classes (fortnightly) along with online notes and videos to keep you on track with your training.

Racy Recalls

Racy Recalls looks at building your dog's desire to come when called. There's nothing worse than calling and calling and getting no response from your dog, or a look toward you and then a walk/run off in the opposite direction. Chasing your dog down for half an hour at the park is not how you want to be spending your precious time. We look forward to creating a fun training adventure for you and your dog.

Throughout the course we will teach you all about games you can play to help build the bond with you and your dog. It's a lifestyle change, so be prepared for the FUN!

Puppy Puzzles & Enrichment

When training a young dog, it is up to us to provide them a variety of new and positive experiences that help develop their understanding of training and problem solving concepts. In doing this we can help build their confidence when approaching any new task or environment. Dog training is about so much more than sits and drops.

In this workshop, we will work on building your dogs understanding of training by providing them some challenges: walking over different surfaces, body awareness, foot placement, and shifting from active movement to being calm and still.

Pre-Performance Foundation

This course is aimed for anyone wanting to develop the essential skills that help with all future training. Our core skill sets will help your puppy/young dog be a better family member, will help your adult dog be considered for pet therapy work, or assist to set your dog up to be a champion competitor.

Key obedience skills and the techniques to help improve these skills
Body awareness activities
Jumping the hurdle of learning to learn

This course covers lots of fun exercises and confidence boosting games to help boost your dog's performance. We will work in detail on criteria and show some tricks-of-the-trade that can tighten up overall understanding of what a training actually looks like.

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Novice Rally

Novice Rally is ideal for those who already have a handle on some basic obedience and basic heelwork / loose leash walking. It is ideal for those who have completed our Beginners Rally Workshop and want to refine your knowledge of the sport and begin to join together the pieces and have a feel for your trial readiness.

We aim to build on your teamwork, understanding of each sign and ringcraft in preparation for entering a trial. Even if you are not considering competition, this course is a great way to continue to build a bond and connection with your dog, and learn something new!

Advanced Tricks

Our Advanced Tricks workshop is 6 x 1 hour group classes.

We will revise and tweak on skills learnt in Beginners Tricks. We will see how these 'base foundation' skills can be used to extend further on fun and entertaining tricks for you to show off with with your dog.

Throughout the course we will teach you a great range of tricks with techniques to match your dog. We also introduce dog training learning theory and psychology to make you understand the training process easier - you will constantly draw from these principles in every training session you have with your dog.

Single Session Workshops

K9 Connect is proud to offer once-off workshops targeting specific training needs. It's a great way to get the training tips and techniques for your area of focus.
These hands-on, interactive sessions are with your dog. We step you through the training in class, then you get to go out to the big wide world afterwards to keep practising.

Puppy Puzzles

This is a 60-minute workshop all about teaching your puppy important life skills. We're not talking about sits and drops here, we want your puppy to learn how to solve problems that will help build a confident adult dog who is able to cope in new situations. This FUN and interactive class will take your training out of the box for you and your puppy.

* Check session details for specific focus topic of the class.

Suitable for puppies from 8 weeks to 12months of age.

Helping the Boisterous dog

You're probably considering this workshop because you have a dog who jumps up on people, pulls and barks to meet other dogs, chases children zooming by on scooters etc.

We want to help you to teach calm to your dog so you can enjoy your dog and find the fun together in a respectable manner.

Our 1-hour workshop is perfect to get some great ideas to help your dog to relax! Lots of training tips, but also a good discussion on the reason behind your dog's behaviours.

Loose Leash Walking

This workshop is ideal if you have a dog that likes to pull like crazy on a walk and forgets that you are attached to the other end of the leash.

We want to help you look forward to, and enjoy, walks with your dog again, rather than put them off because it's frustrating and not enjoyable.

Our 60 minute workshop is perfect to get your walking back on track! Lots of training tips, but also a good discussion on the reason behind the pulling and the learning psychology involved.

Suitable for dogs over 6months

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Lights, Camera, Action!

If you would like to see if your dog has what it takes, come join Julija at K9 Connect in this fun and interactive class.

Julija has over 18 years of experience wrangling dogs on set for for Film, TV and Photoshoots, as well as having dogs on stage at Expos for demonstrations, in class rooms and therapy work.

Julija is also a dog trainer/wrangler for Paws On Film, one of Australia's leading animal talent agencies.

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Helping Shy Dogs

This is the perfect class for owners of dogs that are shy, quiet, reserved and maybe a bit worried about the world.

Your dog may be:

Worried about other dogs,
Worried about people
Cautious of the weird and wonderful things in our world.

We want to help you to teach your dog that being brave is ok. We want you and your dog to enjoy getting out and about together and to find the fun in a more confident manner.

Crates are Great!

Crate training has been ever increasing in popularity over the last decade, with most puppies now introduced to a crate in one way or another. However, building VALUE for the crate and teaching our dogs that their crate can be their den, or nice place to chill out is often the missing piece of the puzzle.

Changing your aspect of crate training, and seeing how we can engage our dogs to eagerly go to their crates and STAY there is a key element to this workshop.

Open to ALL dogs over the age of 12 weeks,

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