Karen Pratt Instructor. Junior & Apprentice ONLY.
Contact Kathy Souza at [email protected]
Workshop: June 22, 2024 9:00am – 5:00pm
Water Trial: June 23, 2024 7:00am – 5:00pm
To enter water trial, visit www.perfdog.com
Get your paws wet! Train on Saturday, Trial in Junior or Apprentice Levels on Sunday!
Water Trial & Workshop Registration Deadline Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 6:00 PM
Location:
Rancho Seco Recreational Park,14960 Twin Cities Road, Herald, CA – at the Dog Beach!
What:
Sixteen working teams will receive land-based and in-the-water training. There will be unlimited auditors. All are welcome to attend.
Why:
Join us for a lakeside workshop to learn what’s needed for water work! The workshop will be specifically geared toward your team and the training exercises you most need to be successful. Focus will be on specific solutions that will help you and your PWD be
successful at any level:
- Breaking down water tasks to their individual components
- Making it fun – training games and techniques
- Transitioning from land to water successfully
Who: Instructor – Karen Pratt, PWDCA Water Trial Judge
Here’s your chance! Learn new skills; fine-tune any problematic areas:
- Are you practicing the basic obedience skills necessary for water work exercises?
- Have you struggled transitioning from land-based training to “in the water” work?
- Are you and your dog “stuck” on exercises that keep you from being successful at the entry levels in water trials?
It is suggested that participating dogs have at least completed puppy kindergarten (or equivalent).
What We’ll Cover:
Beginning Water Work Skills (Junior & Apprentice Levels)
Land training games, tips and techniques (as described above) and everything you need to know about water practice and trialing, including water equipment, basic rules/water trial etiquette, retrieving skills (take, hold, give, stay) and what to expect at your first water
trial.
You will learn many techniques for working with your PWD and be preparing for
advanced levels! Included are:
- Land Games to play to train behaviors
- How to train your dog to jump from a boat and safely board a boat
- Working on control with distractions (+/- theory)
- Rewards (intended and unintended!)
- Nailing the Retrieve
- Using Commands
Covered if time allows:
- Training Games, in and out of the water
- Vectoring
- Proofing
- Discrimination & Marking
- Transfers, send to person (boat)
What to Bring:
Working Teams
Working slots are open to those attendees whose PWDs are comfortable sitting in a crate during the lecture part of instruction. No exceptions for the safety of all participants. Please bring your own crate. One dog per handler.
Working Team Equipment
Collar and/or harness and leash
Long line (leash) for working at distances
Water harness (working teams)
Dog crate, something to cover your crate if your PWD becomes restless (towel is fine)
Water Bowl
Soft, high value training treats (3-4 different types, cut into pieces not larger than a pea)
Favorite toy
Junior/Apprentice water equipment if you have it. Retrieving bumper, underwater retrieve
article, float line. www.4mypwds.com has a full range of equipment
Auditors
Audit slots are meant for those who are attending for the lectures and would prefer to learn by watching the working teams.
People
Drinking Water
Lunch
Shade if you have it, plan on sharing
Comfortable chair
PFD, this is required of all participants entering the water
Closed-toe shoes (sneakers, mocs, water shoes; suitable for entering the water safely) No flip flops or sandals
Notebook & pen or pencil
Workshop Registration and Payment
Please visit https://form.jotform.com/241126152846150 to sign up for the workshop
Working Slot $60
Auditors $45
You must be a member of the PWDCNC to participate in the workshop. Forgot to pay your dues? We still love you; you can renew or sign up for new membership
here: https://pwdcnc.org/club-info/membership-2/
Maximum 16 working slots; priority by order of registration and payment. Unlimited Auditors.