Puppies – Imprinting Period: first 16 weeks of age

What Puppy Courses in the Dog School Jacobs in Sankt Augustin look like:

• Group size is restricted to six participants
• Conveying expertise knowledge
• Attention training and exercises to strengthen the bond between you and your pup
• Best possible socialization with dogs of different breeds as well as with humans
• Getting to know different environmental influences (noises, cars, umbrellas, …)
• Exercises for coordination abilities of your puppy
• Daily routine /everyday life training on the court, in the forest as well as in the city
• Building the basic commands: sit, down, heel
• Building a reliable recall
• Learning to walk on a leash and to retrieve
• Learning to wait patiently
• Training your puppy the no or stop command
• Learning not to eat anything off the ground
• Learning not to jump on people
• Clarification of questions concerning your four-legged bundle of joy

The first 16 weeks of life are essential for a dog and the development of its personality. This stage of age is called the imprinting period during which your pooch’s emotional makeup will be fully developed and puppies learn more than they can learn a life time. Therefore, the quality and quantity of what they experience will have an enormous impact on their future personalities and determine the formation of many of their “desired” or “undesired” behavior tendencies. Take advantage of this important stage of a dog’s life to find your puppy joy by joining the diverse puppy training courses. To profit most from high quality socialization and schooling, the Dog School Jacobs in Sankt Augustin offers a puppy intensive training consisting of training twice a week and 20 hours besides the regular training course of 10 hours. Before the participation in the puppy training courses, one individual puppy training (35 Euro) is necessary to clarify your questions und provide information concerning the learning behavior of your new family member to then place your puppy into the right group.

Prices:

Puppy Individual Training: 35 €

Regular Puppy Course (10 hours of 60 minutes each): 100 €

Intensive Puppy Course (20 hours of 60 minutes each): 180 €

Everyday Life Training – for Adolescent, Adult and Senior Dogs

What Everyday Life Training in the Dog School Jacobs in Sankt Augustin looks like:

• Groups with participants that fit each other age wise

(For example groups with only adolescent or senior dogs)

• Group size limited to six participants
• Everyday life situation training on the court, in the forest and in the city
• Attention training to strengthen the bond between you and your dog
• Learning to walk on a leash
• Building a reliable recall
• Learning the commands sit, down, stay
• Building the walk at heel without a leash
• Learning to wait patiently
• Learning to retrieve
• Distance control (sit, down, stay from a distance of 10 meters and more)
• Training your dog the no or stop command
• Learning not to eat anything off the ground
• Learning not to jump on people
• Promoting good social behavior towards other dogs and humans

The everyday life training exists for adolescent dogs but also older dogs that maybe just arrived at their new home. Those courses aim to expand the abilities that were learned in the puppy courses and strengthen them. In addition to this new aspects such as the walk at heel without a leash and the distance control (sit, down, stay from a distance) are added. The focus is the training of everyday life situations to provide an easy-going cooperation between dog and human. On different terrain such as the city, forest and meadows the relaxed waiting in the “down” position, walking on a leash and a reliable recalls are trained. Furthermore, we pay attention to a good social behavior towards other dogs and humans and the bond between the dog-human teams is strengthened.

Prices:

Scheduled course with 10 units of 60 minutes each: 100 €

Time wise flexible card for 10 units of 60 minutes each: 120 €

Dog Sports

Nose Work – Man-trailing

What Nose Work Courses in the Dog School Jacobs in Sankt Augustin look like:

• Group size limited to four participants
• Training in the forest as well as in residential and industrial areas
• Searching for and revealing different objects
• Searching for and revealing hidden persons
• Dog owners learn to read their dogs’ body language correctly
• Strengthening the bond between you and your dog

Dogs rely heavily on their nose and have abilities that we humans cannot even imagine. While the olfactory mucosa of a human has a size of five square centimeters, that of a dog has a size of 150 square centimeters. On the olfactory mucosa of a dog there are about 200 million olfactory

cells, on that of a human only 5 million. With their extraordinary nose, dogs can sniff out other dogs’ or people’s illnesses, age, state of mind and much more. They are also capable of finding and tracking down traces that are several hours and days old. During the Nose Work Courses in the Dog School Jacobs, dogs are trained to use their noses purposefully and correctly show the hidden object or the wanted person. Nose work is a natural form of activity for dogs of all ages and requires a high amount of concentration. Moreover, it especially helps active dogs to work in a calm and focused way. The dog owners are trained in reading their dogs’ body language correctly. Be fascinated by your dog, when it finds smallest objects or well hidden persons after an extensive search.

Prices:

Scheduled course with 10 units of 90 minutes each: 150 €

Time wise flexible card for 10 units of 90 minutes: 170 €

Combi-Dog-Sports-Courses: Trick training – Clicker training – Lunging – Household Aide

What Combi-Dog-Sports-Courses in the dog school Jacobs in Sankt Augustin look like:

• A great mixture from different areas of dog sports
• Heelwork
• Lunging in a big circle around pylons and agility equipment
• Distance control: Basic commands and tricks from a distance
• Clicker training und trick training
• Raising paws
• Slalom backwards and forwards through your legs
• Walking long distances backwards and sideways
• Spin around the own center
• Spanish walk
• Crossing paws
• Rolling
• Sleeping dog
• Drop objects in your hand
• Taking off gloves or jackets of the dog owner
• Clean up objects into a basket
• Pushing big objects with the nose
• Carrying baskets and other items

In the Combi-Dog-Sports-Courses different dog sports from the areas of clicker training, trick training and obedience as well as lunging around agility objects are introduced and trained. Furthermore, household aid tricks are taught so that in the future your dog will pass you the collar and leash and carry the newspaper into the house. These courses are very diverse and suitable for all age groups.

Prices:

Scheduled course with 10 units 60 minutes each: 100 €

Time wise flexible card for 10 units: 120 €

Treibball/Ball Herding

What Treilbball/Ball Herding Courses in the Dog School Jacobs in Sankt Augustin look like:

• Group size limited to six participants
• Pushing or herding a ball in the direction you want
• A lot of distance control (sit, down, stay from a great distance)
• Sending your dog ahead
• Stopping your dog suddenly in mid-run
• Sending your dog in all four cardinal directions
• Sending and stopping your dog behind a far off object or ball
• Widespread circling of far off objects or balls
• A lot of fun, action and obedience training from a great distance

Treibball is a great dog sport for all dogs that love running and action. Originally developed for herding and cattle dogs to provide them with a varying occupation, it now delights every dog no matter the age or size. On a court of up to 50 meter length eight surrogate sheep (big balls) are placed across from a gate from where the dog owner will send his dog to herd all eight balls into the gate in less than 15 minutes. This dog sport offers fun and obedience training at the same time as you have to direct your dog from a distance, send it to all cardinal directions and stop them suddenly. It is a great and demanding activity for the mind and your dog’s endurance.

Prices:

Scheduled course with 10 units 60 minutes each: 100 €

Time wise flexible card for 10 units: 120 €

Specials

Training for owners of several dogs

What training courses for owners of several dogs in the Dog School Jacobs in Sankt Augustin look like:

• Be the focus of your pack
• Walking several dogs on a leash
• Reliable obedience with several dogs
• Reliable recall
• Secure waiting of one dog while the others are in action
• Simultaneous occupation of several dogs

In the last years, a new trend has developed: more and more people own two or three dogs. To ensure that your dog has a member of the same species to play with, to cavort and to bridge a lonely time, oftentimes a second dog is bought. But careful! Quite often dog owners are surprised that several dogs together can pose quite a challenge. Even if the first dog was absolutely unproblematic, this can change once the

second dog moves in. Dogs like to copy behavior from each other and even if dog number one was completely not interested in deer, it might then happen that the dog realizes how much fun it can be to hunt deer with the new buddy, to pull the leash or loudly chase away other dogs.

These courses train tricks how a dog owner of several dogs can keep everything under control and teach a reliable basic obedience to the dogs. The participants of this course are trained in their responsiveness because several dogs require a great amount of multitasking skills. Apart from that different occupation possibilities for owners of several dogs are presented which strengthen the bond between dog owner and dog remarkably to ensure that the dog owner is the focus of the pack. A wide range of different activities are presented, ranging from parallel activities for all dogs and activities where one dog is waiting while the others are occupied.

Prices:

Scheduled course with 10 units of 60 minutes each: 100 €

Time wise flexible card for 10 units: 120 €

Anti-Hunt-Training

What Anti-Hunt Training in the Dog School Jacobs in Sankt Augustin looks like:

• Diverse training grounds in the forest, heath and deer-park
• Limited number of participants
• Conveying expertise concerning the topic „Dogs and Hunting“
• Radius training of the dog in 10 meters around the dog owner
• Long line training
• Eye contact from a distance
• Distance control (commands: sit, down, stay) from a distance of 10 meters
• Learning to retrieve
• Building an utterly reliable recall
• Channeling the search instinct on other objects
• Bonding in the human-dog relationship
• Dependable conduct of anti-hunt exercises with constant distraction and therefore a higher difficulty level

The dog as a natural predator has a reflexive pleasure to chase cats, bunnies or deer. This doesn’t usually generate enthusiasm of the dog owner if the dog disappears for a short or longer amount of time, especially if the dog then returns with the neighbor’s cat. Control in respect to deer and other pets is a supreme discipline for dogs and depending on the breed a great challenge for the owner. The purpose of anti-hunt training is to build a certain radius around ourselves which the dog should learn to keep while running around us. Under constantly increasing distraction we are building an utterly reliable recall that will cause the dog to leave the rabbit alone to get back to you as fast as possible.

Prices:

Scheduled course with 10 units of 60 minutes each: 100 €

Time wise flexible card for 10 units: 120 €

Vacation with your dog in the Rhineland

• Daily training with two or three units of 60 minutes each
• Combination of individual and group training
• Encounter training with many different dogs
• A custom-built training program for you and your dog
• Mutual learning of dog and human
• Relaxed work atmosphere because of sufficient time
• Different training grounds: city, forest and meadows
• Work targeting existing problems
• Getting to know many different dog sports
• The beautiful Rhineland as a recreational area

You have a vacation of a week and can focus intensely on your dog? In that case this is the ideal possibility to train for two or three hours daily for a week in the Dog School Jacobs in Sankt Augustin. A combination of individual and group training is designated. The main purpose is a relaxed training of everyday life situations but of course the useful occupation of your dog can also be trained. You are welcome to try different areas of dog sports and at the same time specifically work on problems you have with your dog in individual training. If you are not from the immediate surrounding the Rhineland as a great vacation area offers a lot of Hotels and accommodations where dogs are very welcome.

Price:

Intensive week of five days with 2-3 hours of training daily: 350 Euro