Impulse Control – 5 Weeks

Many dogs develop bad habits over time including poor door manners that can be troublesome for their owners. In most cases, dogs simply act on impulse and do what comes naturally for them. They are often excited to meet new people or explore new places. Without the proper training, many dogs don’t learn the social graces, which can create havoc in your home.

Our Impulse Control I and Impulse Control II classes are designed to help your dog to gain more self control and learn, how to behave around distractions minimize and stop unwanted behaviors, like jumping up on people, door bolting, poor near the door manners, meet and greet inside and outside greeting etc.  At the completion of both classes, you will learn how to teach your dog to Sit-Stay, Down-Stay with the duration,distance and distractions indoors and outdoors by using verbal command and hand signal, proper near the door manners, polite meet and greet inside and outside, we will continue to work with Leave it command indoors and outdoors in different situations, reinforcing Recall inside and outside. We will repeat all learned commands throughout the class and introduce distractions along the way to ensure your dog has learned to execute these commands under a variety of circumstances.

This class is also an excellent refresher class for graduates of our basic dog training class, advanced dog training class or our puppy program.

Please bring to class your pup in a collar and/or harness with a 4 ft – 8 ft standard leash (no retractable leashes permitted). Please be sure to feed your pup at least 2 – 3 hours before class and bring a LOT of TASTY SOFT treats, such as cheese, cooked chicken, or any soft flavored chicken, liver, or beef (NO milk bones or biscuits). The same treats you use at home may not work in a high distractive class environment. Please bring along your pup’s water bowl and a bone or Kong to keep your pup busy to avoid barking if indicated for your pup.

Impulse Control I – In this class dogs start to take their first steps in learning self control, they will learn Sit-Stay, Down-Stay with added duration and distance, we start with Go to Mat/Place training, that is prerequisite for future near the door manners training in Impulse Control II, Leave it, Drop it, Come, polite manners for feeding and continue to address and work with problem behaviors like jumping up. Impulse Control I class helps to lie solid foundation, that will help dog to move on to the Impulse Control II class and  start working with distractions outside.  

Impulse Control II  – Prerequisite of successful completion of Impulse control I and Loose Leash Walking I.  In this class we start to add distractions, while reinforcing previously learned skills including Sit-Stay, Down-Stay , Come , Place and Leave It with increased distance  and distractions indoors and outdoors (weather permitting). You and your dog will learn how  to avoid door bolting coming out from the car, from the home etc. Also will learn the routine for near the door manners with the visitors, and polite meet and greet indoors and outdoors (weather permitting) . The classes will be held inside and outside (weather permitting).