Calm Canines Agility
Building Confidence, Calmness, and Life Skills Through Fun and Focused Training
Calm Canines Agility
Agility is a dog sport where handlers guide their dogs through an obstacle course, aiming for speed, agility, and accuracy. Agility requires dogs and their handlers to be connected and responsive to each other’s cues and is a great way to have fun and strengthen the bond between dog and handler.
Our Calm Canines Agility Program is designed specifically for sensitive dogs including those that find working around other dogs and/or novel environments challenging. Our classes help dogs, and their humans develop essential life skills while building their confidence and calmness through agility skills. Designed for dogs and their humans that need extra support with fear, anxiety and/or overarousal, our program offers the opportunity to grow agility skills, life skills, and have fun!
The classes within our Calm Canines Agility program follow a thoughtful progression from foundational agility and life skills to more complex skills and environments. Our program will help improve your dog's agility skills but also teach essential skills and strategies that enhance their ability to handle everyday life with more ease.
Uncut Gems (Agility Foundations)
The Agility Foundations Class is thoughtfully designed for sensitive dogs and their humans, introducing the sport of agility in a calm and supportive environment. The course focuses on building trust, communication, and confidence between you and your dog through fun, low-pressure activities that promote connection and teamwork.
Our agility foundation class teaches your dog to navigate the agility environment at their own pace, ensuring they are comfortable and confident before progressing to more challenging set ups. You and your dog will learn foundational agility skills such as focus, waiting calmly, body awareness, recalls and toy play – all of which helps build resilience and confidence in the agility environment. Dogs will also be introduced to agility equipment including jumps and tunnels.
This course will provide you with valuable insights into your dog's unique sensitivities and offers practical tools to manage situations while working on growing calmness and resilience. Whether your dog is shy, anxious, or easily over aroused this class sets the stage for growth, giving you both the agility skills and transferrable life skills to succeed together.
6 classes • $300 + tax
Bronze Bounders (Beginner Agility)
The Beginner Agility Class is tailored for sensitive dogs who have mastered the skills in Agility Foundations and are ready to take the next step in their agility journey. Building on the trust, confidence, and skills developed in the Foundations class, this course introduces teams to all the agility equipment and challenges while continuing to prioritize growing calm, resilience and confidence.
In this class, you and your dog will practice working on the agility equipment with greater focus, coordination, and control, and start to link together agility sequences. Positive reinforcement remains at the heart of our approach, ensuring that sensitive dogs feel safe and supported as they try new challenges. Life skills are also a strong focus in this course including stationing on both a mat and in a crate between turns, following your cues, recalls and working around distractions.
This class offers you continued guidance on reading your dog's signals, improving communication, and enhancing your handling techniques, and strengthening the bond between dogs and handlers.
6 classes • $300 + tax
Silver Sprinters (Intermediate Agility)
The Intermediate Agility Class for sensitive dogs is designed for teams who have successfully completed Beginner Agility and are ready to enhance their agility and life skills in a supportive environment. This course focuses on refining agility techniques, improving speed, precision, and obstacle performance, as well as life skills including calmness, resilience and working around distractions.
In this class, you and your dog will work on more complex course patterns, combining multiple obstacles with increasing difficulty. We continue to emphasize confidence-building and calm behaviours in more challenging environments, allowing sensitive dogs and their handlers to grow their skills without being overwhelmed. Dogs will also continue to refine their stationing and crate skills, and their ability to work around distractions.
This will help enhance your handling skills, teaching more advanced techniques for guiding your dog through challenging courses including side changes, front, blind and rear crosses, recall around distractions and increasing the working distance between dogs and handlers. If your dog has progressed through the beginner skills and is ready for the next challenge, this intermediate class provides the perfect balance of skill development and positive support.
6 classes • $300 + tax
Gold Rushers (Advanced Agility)
The Advanced Agility Class for sensitive dogs is designed for teams that have mastered the skills in the Intermediate Agility course and are ready for greater challenges. This class takes you and your dog’s abilities to the next level, focusing on complex obstacle sequences, faster decision-making, and enhanced precision, all while continuing to prioritize staying calm and relaxed in more challenging environments. You will work on full agility course sequences, and enhanced skills in an environment that is safe, calm, and supportive.
This course will help you develop advanced handling techniques, helping you refine your communication and teamwork with your dog. You’ll learn how to guide your dog confidently through faster and more demanding courses while continuing to nurture confidence, calm and trust. This advanced class is for sensitive dogs who have progressed through previous levels and are ready to take their skills to the next level.
6 classes • $300 + tax
Questions about our Calm Canines Agility Program?
Phone: 587-579-5954 | Email: help@goodasgoldtraining.ca
4303 11th Street SE, Calgary, AB T2X 4G1
Private dog training for dedicated Calgary dog lovers living with aggressive dogs, dogs with separation anxiety, and dogs with impulse control issues like barking and jumping.