Upcoming Intensives
Intensives are workshops focusing on specific skills or dog sports. We offer many different intensives, so check back regularly to see what fun classes are being offered! You can purchase an intensive through our online shop below!
Join us for 4 one-hour classes devoted to helping you to teach your dog to come when called, instantly and enthusiastically! In dog training, coming when called is referred to as a recall. Your success will depend on practicing what you learn in the classroom in a variety of places such as parks, on the trail or at home. The exercises you learn are fun, practical and address a variety of different tactics for teaching your dog to come when called!
Start Date: May 3rd, 2026, Sundays, 9:30am to 10:30am
Pre-requisites: None!
Location: Cambridge Veterinary Services
Cost: $199.99
Join us for four weeks of off-leash fun with your small dog! Dogs will have the opportunity to engage in play with one another, as well as practicing recalls and group down stays in a social setting.
Start Date: April 11th, Saturdays, 11am-12pm
Location: Marden Park
Prerequisites: Dogs under 22lbs
Cost: $199.99 or 1 extra
Join Lucy for 4 one-hour classes full of fun games! Games class helps proof your dog’s skills, encourage communication between dog and handler, and best of all are fun for everyone! For Advanced Games, dogs should:
Be 6 months of age as a minimum
Have a minimum of Level Two
Have some ability to work with their handler in the presence of other dogs and people
Start Date: April 12th, 2026, Sundays, 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Dogs in the Park Farm - 5341 Woolwich Guelph Townline
Cost: $199.99 or 1 extra
This intensive will cover basic information and skills to dog tracking sport as a fun way to engage your dog and build relationship. There will be lots of opportunity to introduce your dog to tracking and the basic methods to help your dog understand the task of ‘following human scent’ (rather than all the other enticing scents of critters).
The workshop will run in two sessions:
Theory Session: Friday May 29 from 6:30pm to 8pm (with no dogs)
Working Session: Saturday May 30, 2026 from 9:30am to 4:30 pm (with dogs)
Prerequisites: Dogs must be comfortable being unattended in vehicles, dogs must have a ‘down’ behaviour.
Cost: $199.99 or 1 extra
Join Lucy for 4 one-hour classes full of fun games! Games class helps proof your dog’s skills, encourage communication between dog and handler, and best of all are fun for everyone! To successfully participate in Novice Games class, your dog should be able to sit, down, touch, come when called, lie on a mat, perform step-click-treat and cued take it, plus at least the beginnings of down stay. They do not need to be 100% fluent in the above behaviours, but should have the beginning stages of them as we will be using the behaviours in the games we play. Dogs should also:
Be 6 months of age as a minimum
Have some ability to work with their handler in the presence of other dogs and people
Start Date: April 12th, 2026, Sundays, 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location: Outdoors at the Dogs in the Park Farm - 5341 Woolwich Guelph Townline
Cost: $199.99 or 1 extra