Water Training Workshop
Introduction to Water Work
Dry Dock Workshop: April 13, 2025
8:00 am – 2:00 pm
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Tailored Dog Training,
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4475 K Treat Blvd, Concord, CA
Get ready for summer and water work season!
Water Workshop Registration Deadline
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 6:00 PM
Where:
Tailored Dog Training, 4475 K Treat Blvd, Concord, CA
What:
Sixteen working teams will receive land-based training. There will be unlimited auditors. All are welcome to attend.
Why:
Join us for a dry dock 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: Instructors – PWDCNC Water Committee Members
Here’s your chance! Learn new skills to introduce your team to water work; 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?
A light lunch will be served for those attending.
It is suggested that participating dogs have at least completed puppy kindergarten (or equivalent).
Workshop Content:
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!)
- Teaching 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 6′ leash
- Long line (leash) for working at distances
- 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.
People
- Drinking Water
- Comfortable chair
- Notebook & pen or pencil
Workshop Registration and Payment
Please visit the website, https://pwdcnc.org/ to sign up for the workshop.
Working Slot $35, Auditors $20.00
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 of 16 working spots; priority by order of registration and payment.