Instructor: Liz Smith

Duration: 5 weeks (May 13th- June 17th) *No Class May 27th*

Class Time: 1 Hour

Location: New Hampshire SPCA – Training room

Class Description: *This class is a combo of Beginner and Advanced Beginner Agility*. Did you and your pup enjoy Intro to Agility? Are you looking to have fun in agility and build on the foundations that you learned? This class is for you! Beginner Agility will teach teams more basics in agility. Learning different handling maneuvers, turns, and short sequences. Students will be introduced to tunnels under the A frame and continue working on the teeter and weave poles. Successful communication will be achieved using positive reinforcement, reward based training. Advanced Beginner students will be working off leash in class.  Students will continue to work on handling skills, with added challenges of distance and discrimination between obstacles. This class will help those that really want to get serious about competition, or just want to continue having fun learning new skills with your dog. This class will continue to be taught indoors. This class is meant to be fun and give you and your pup the opportunity to move into the Intermediate Agility class, or you and your pup can just enjoy agility and take this class as many times as you’d like to keep them active.

Prerequisites: Intro to Agility or Instructor Approval

Special Notes: This class is not for aggressive or reactive dogs. If your dog exhibits this type of behavior please see our Reactive Dog class or email behavior@nhspca.org for assistance.

Vaccinations: Please email your dog’s vaccination records prior to the first class to vaccines@nhspca.org.  All pets must be current on core vaccinations. Vaccines for canine parvovirus, distemper, canine hepatitis and rabies are considered core vaccines. Please speak with your veterinarian about the appropriateness of non-core vaccines.  These include vaccines against Bordetella and Lepto.