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Dog Agility at J-Canine Pet Resort "The Ultimate Country Retreat" |
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We offer group and private agility lessons for everyone - from playing for fun to the top levels of competition (also fun!!). We have three great instructors, who love dogs and agility.
Martine Kopka is the Training Coordinator at J-Canine and enjoys
helping people
Liz Neuman, has been
Renee King has been training in agility since 1998. Her teammates
are ADCH-
Our agility field is fully fenced and has lights for nighttime use. All of our equipment meets AKC, NADAC and/or USDAA regulations, and is adjustable to use in training new dogs.
We welcome all breeds and mixed breed dogs to come play! Only fun and positive methods are used.
Agility classes:
Agility Prep: This six-week primer helps prepares you and your pet for the fundamental dog & handler skills needed to be successful in agility. This class will allow you to gain better focus from your pet, teaches how to play, motivate, and reward your dog appropriately so you can begin to form a team-based relationship, and begins such foundation skills as flatwork, side changes, SIT, DOWN, STAY with distractions, and will introduce the tunnel, table, downsides of the contact obstacles, and bar jumps. This class is required for future agility classes. Dogs must be at least 6 months old to participate. Beginner Class: Our six-week beginner agility class introduces dogs to the fundamental skills they will need to learn to play safely and successfully in agility. Dogs are introduced to the remainder of the equipment in Beginner and build upon many obedience-for-agility concepts that will help your pet in the more advanced classes and at home. Our beginner class is $135, with classes starting soon! Intermediate Classes I, II, and; III: These classes expand on the lessons learned in the Beginner Class. The class introduces handling techniques to better guide your dog and improves the dog’s understanding of how to operate each obstacle correctly. You will begin sequencing and course work. This class also stresses the importance of independent obstacle performance and introduces discrimination challenges and verbal commands & proper timing. The intermediate classes are $120 for six weeks. Advanced Classes I, II, and III: Advanced sessions continue to expand on previous classes and begin to test and proof for accuracy. In this series, the dogs learn more advanced techniques, more distance work, and more complicated sequences. Handlers learn how to walk a course, plan their handling strategy, and execute their runs with more success. We will hone each team’s skills and prepare them for Novice competition. These six week classes are $110. Competition Class: This class focuses on preparing and practicing for competition. If competition is not your goal, this class is also a great way to keep challenging you and your dog's mind after progressing through the other classes. You pre-pay for this class monthly, at $70 per month (4-weeks). *We currently have competition classes ongoing on: -Thursday evenings at 7:30 and 8:30 pm If you're interested in drop-in classes, you may join us a class at a time for $25/class. Please let me know ahead of time if you're planning on coming, so I can let you know if we have to cancel due to weather, and so that I can verify that we have space for you.
Private Lessons: Private lessons are available for $45 per half-hour or $65 per hour and are available during any time of the day. The half hour may be split between two dogs belonging to the same person, and the hour may be split between two people, each with up to two dogs. Please call to schedule your lesson and discuss what you'd like to work on.
Student Pictures
Above all, agility at J-Canine Pet Resort will be FUN!!
Field Rental and Fun Run's: We will also rent our field to experienced agility handlers. Rental is $20 per hour for up to 5 people. Call or email us for a quote for rental for groups of more than 5 handlers. You can call or email for availability and to reserve the field. Also, as time and the agility trialing season allows, we will offer Fun Run's on select Friday or Saturday evenings. Please check this page for dates and times, or email us to be added to our announcement list.
If you have any questions, please call 281-633-9464 or send an email to liz@j-canine.com or to our class coordinator, Martine at martine@j-canine.com
Click here for map and directions.
Photo by Tien Tran
Required Vaccinations: DHLP-P, Rabies, and Bordatella (kennel cough)
Looking for agility training in other parts of town? E-mail us and we will be happy to refer you to a local instructor. 281-633-9464
Member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers.
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better
understand their pets by teaching positive-based, modern training
techniques. She frequently attends teaching seminars and is an
active member of the APDT, having recently attended their 2009
Educational Conference for Pet Dog Trainers. Her lifelong interest
in animal behavior & training became a passion when she adopted
Henry, a deaf and vision-impaired Catahoula Leopard Dog in 2004 and
began teaching him sign language. Her own pets became the driving
force for her to join J-Canine’s program in 2007 where she currently
teaches Puppy Class, Beginner Agility, and Basic Obedience classes.
Martine competes in agility with her 6 year-old rescue Doberman, Ace
and is co-founder of Southwest Houston Agility Group. Martine is
currently raising a Border Collie puppy named
involved
in the sport since 1992, and has
worked with numerous breeds. She
has achieved over 85 obedience and
agility titles with her five dogs, as well as a conformation
championship and a few flyball titles. She is also the
secretary for New Hope Agility Group and New Hope Australian
Shepherd Club, and hosts eight agility trials a year in College
Station, TX. She also recently co-founded the Southwest
Houston Agility Group, a new NADAC club in Fort Bend County. Meet Liz's
dogs, who are currently competing, the old man 
Gold
Hamlet MX MXJ XF NAC NJC NGC FDX CGC, who is a wild and crazy 10
year old Jack Russell Terrier who lives for agility and ADCH Racket
OA AXJ OF, who is Hamlet’s 7 year old brother.
