Our Classes

  • Puppy Class

    For Puppies 12 weeks to 6 months.

    Focuses on building a healthy, successful relationship with your dog. Introduces your puppy to appropriate behavior towards you, other people, and other dogs. Basic commands will be taught.

  • Beginning obedience

    For dogs 6 months and older.

    An introduction to basic obedience: including walking on a loose leash, recalls, sit and stay, down and down stay, and proper heeling techniques. This class will prepare dog and handler for the Canine Good Citizens (CGC) test, if desired.

  • Foundations of Agility

    Prerequisite: Obedience or Canine Good Citizens Certificate.

    Focuses on developing a relationship with your dog including focus work, flat work, introduction to ladder, pause table, teeter board, barrels, cones, and 10 foot tunnel.

  • Basic Agility

    Prerequisite: Foundations of Agility

    Focuses on increasing handling proficiency, introduction to all the agility equipment i.e. A-Frame, dog walk, jumps, tunnels, teeter, weave poles etc. The goal is for the team to be proficient at sequences of 3-5 obstacles and have a reliable recall.

  • Intermediate Agility

    Prerequisite: Basic Agility

    Focuses on increasing the dog and handler’s proficiency with the equipment. Completing crosses, dog working ahead of the handler and coming into the handler while running a sequence. Completing a 7-10 obstacle course is the goal.

  • Advanced Agility

    Prerequisite: Intermediate Agility

    Focus on proofing contact obstacle performance, handling angled entrances to tunnels and weaves. Introduction to serpentines, 12 weave poles without guides and other complex obstacles. Continue distance training and handling maneuvers. The goal is to complete a 14 obstacle course.

  • Post Advance

    Prerequisite: Advanced Agility

    Each week a new course is set up that challenges dog handler teams proficiency using advanced handling techniques. Offered Tuesday nights to continue working on our skills.

  • Scent Work

    Scent work is a sport that requires the dog to locate a scent (essential oils) and communicate to the handler that the scent has been found. Scent work is a positive, challenging activity that allows dogs the opportunity to use their strongest natural sense in a fun and challenging way.

  • Rally Obedience

    You and your dog navigate a course, side by side, as you guide him through a course of 10-20 different signs. Each of the signs provide instructions regarding the next skill to be performed. It’s all about working as a team while performing the skills, with the dog under control.

Action Agility also offers AKC Trick Dog as well as AKC Canine Good Citizen testing on a periodic basis. Watch the website and our Facebook page for more information on testing dates.

All classes are 8 weeks in length and cost $100.

To register for classes, print then fill out the form below and mail with a $25 deposit. Registrations that come in without deposit are not valid.

We offer Fall, Winter, and Spring sessions. The Fall session usually starts the last week of September, Winter session starts the first or second week in January, and the Spring session starts the third or fourth week in March. Registrations for non-current students and non-members are accepted starting August 25th for Fall session, November 25th for Winter session, and February 25th for Spring session.

Class registrations are accepted on a first come basis. Announcements will be made on our website and Facebook page when registrations are being accepted.

Documentation of current Rabies vaccination is required to be shown on the first day of class. We also recommend Bordetella (kennel cough), Lepto, and Parvo Vaccinations.

Registrations for Fall session will be accepted starting August 25th for new students. Classes tentatively starting the week of September 23rd.

What to bring with you

Dog

A happy, healthy and hungry dog. Because we will be using food as motivators, it will be to your advantage if your dog is eager to eat. If you normally feed your dog in the evening, you may want to withhold its meal on class nights, or consider the food motivators that you will use in class as its evening feeding doled out in small bits.

Buckle Collar

Agility training is not about forcing our dogs into a particular behavior but learning how to communicate with body language and enthusiasm. A buckle collar should be sufficient to keep most dogs in your immediate control. Adjustments can be make on a case by case basis.

Leash

A six-foot leash with a loop at the handler end will come in handy for some of our Teamwork exercises and for hands-free training. At some point, you might want to purchase a short TAB leash as you start to work with your dog off leash.

Tug Toy

We will be spending a lot of time teaching our dogs how to play with us. In agility, we want our dogs to think that we are the most interesting thing around-not other dogs, equipment, etc. A ball on a string, knotted rope, or bungee tugs with pouch are some examples. Most pet stores have a good selection of tug toys. Clean run is a great online resource for all your agility needs.

Water

Bring water for you and your dog. Think of a class as going to the gym. You and your dog both need to stay well hydrated. Also bring a water dish for your dog as we discourage sharing of water bowls. Collapsible bowls are a great choice that can clip to your tote bag.

Treats

Bring something your dog loves, something smelly and mouthwatering. Leave the dry kibble at home. You can try hot dogs, cheese, liver treats, or meat bits. Depending on the size of your dog, the treats should be cut up into ONE BITE sizes. They should not be so big that your dog has to stop what it’s doing to chew on them, but they need to be large enough for your dog to get some satisfaction from the reinforcer. BRING LOTS! Don’t be stingy at this point. You can always take the extra home and use during the week as you do your homework.

Treat Bag

You will need some kind of bag from which you can swiftly and smoothly remove a treat. The bag should be secured to your body somehow, so that both hands are free to guide your dog. Treat bags are available at Target, PetSmart, and online for around $10.

Tote bag, backpack, duffle bag

A go bag to keep all of your training accessories together.