4 Paws Academy Dog Training
Puppy Kindergarten: (12 weeks-6 months of age) Starts simple obedience commands like heel, sit, down, come, stay. Time also spent on socialization with other puppies and other people. Puppy problems such as chewing, crate training, housebreaking, grooming, etc. included. Best thing you could ever do for your dog!!
Beginners 1 Obedience: (6 months and older) Begin formal training. Learn heeling with sits, turns, etc. Work on sit stay and down stay. Learning to come when called, leave it, and attention work. Works on problem areas such as jumping, barking, etc.
Parts of the Canine Good Citizen Test are introduced.
Beginners 2 Obedience: (follows Beginners 1) Training becomes even more structured. Distractions are added during heeling, stays, and recalls. Begins Figure 8 (weaving), adds finishes, more distance added during stays. Continues to add onto other skills started in Beginners 1.
Advanced Obedience: (follows Beginners 2) Begins to perfect all obedience commands, and prepare handlers for showing their dogs in obedience or just having a better behaved pet.
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Beginners Agility: Teaches all obstacles required for AKC agility. Begins teaching of turns, handling skills, and simple sequences.
Advanced Agility: Continues work on obstacles, adds height to A-frame, dog walk, teeter. Continues work on handling skills and more complicated sequences.
Novice and Advanced/Excellent Rally Classes offered: see website for details.
839 Industrial Blvd.
Loyalhanna 15650
Pennsylvania
Contact Person: Linda Moore
Phone:724-836-1036 or 724-537-8054
Training Method: We believe in positive reinforcement through food and verbal praise. At first the food is used as a lureto entice the dog to do certain behavior. Later the food becomes a reward for offereing the wanted behavior and the verbal praise encourages the dog's response. We think of corrections as being a ladder with the least possible correction as the bottom rung. We believe in using the least correction necessary as the bottom rung. We believe in using the least correction needed to stop an unwanted behavior. If one step on the ladder is enough, that is the correction used, the ladder is climbed as necessary to get the behavior under control. We use squirt bottles, startle cans, etc as minor corrective devices.
Associations: Both Linda Moore and Dotty Hall have been active officers and members of Westmoreland County Obedience Training Club (AKC recognized club). We have chaired many committees, and been in charge of many events sponsored by the club since its inception in 1983.
Linda is a member of the Three Rivers Shetland Sheepdog Club of Greater Pittsburgh. She has also been a handler for therapy dogs (member of Therapy Dogs International) for many years.
Linda is also an evaluator for the Canine Good Citizen teat sponsored by the American Kennel Club.
Certifications: Linda Moore is an evaluator for the Canine Good Citizen test sponsored by the American Kennel Club. She has also earned an advanced teaching certificate in agility from Bud Houston's instructors camp.
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