Clicker Workshops at Waggawuffins, Lancashire

Clicker Training Workshops at WaggaWuffins - Lancashire

Foundation Agility Workshop 10th April 2011
10am till 4pm £30 per handler - Max 6 dogs
For Pet Dogs! The day involves introducing your dog safely to all the equipment using clicker shaping and capturing. We teach the dogs to work the equipment independently, confidently and safely. Our methods enable your dog to be calm and focused while having loads of fun!

Triebball Training Workshop 17th April 2011
10am till 4pm £30 per handler - Max 6 dogs
Learn Triebball with your dog. It’s not just for Collies, ball herding suitable for any breed. We teach the foundation exercises with clicker training. During the day we will teach the outrun to the dogs, then introduce the dogs to the gym balls where eventually we look at teaching the push/drive and directional control
Dogs must have previous clicker experience to attend the course and be able to target an object at more than 5 paces

Pre Sports Puppy 8th May 2011
10am till 4pm £30 per handler - Max 6 dogs
A day for anyone that is planning to do some fun canine activities with their puppy in the future. The day consists of self awareness through shaping, targeting and object interaction, finding your puppy’s motivators and reinforcers and training games to build a stronger bond and focus

Clicker Free-Shaping Day 22nd May 2011
10am till 4pm £30 per handler - Max 8 dogs
A full day of learning about Free-Shaping
Free-Shaping builds stronger more reliable behaviours.
The day focuses on teaching object interaction to help with directional and distance control, agility and assistance dogs support, physical movements from paw lifts and head turns to tail wags and lips licks, directional movement’s like spins, turns and backwards circles


All workshops instructed by Jane Ardern FdSc CBT, DipCABT, CAP2, CAPBT, MAPDT1058

Contact: Jane@waggawuffins.com or call 0161 762 0174 to book
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Study, Study and More Study

I’m part way through my first year BSc top up in Canine Behaviour and Training. It’s been weird just before Christmas Pauline our Course manager that we have had for the last 3 years for the FdSc announced she was leaving. It was quite a shock and feeling of uncertainty, which is still going on now! We have a new course manager and get to meet her in person at college next week. It was also then announced that Lynda is leaving the course, this again was disappointing. I’ve learnt a lot from Lynda especially on the practical side and was looking forwards to doing advanced instructing with her. I think Depending on whom takes over this will depend upon if I take the option now. I feel it’s really important that the teachers are good for you to get the best out of a course. I need to get stuck into my dissertation and do some pilot studies this month, I’ve got Marion for my dissertation support which is fab!

Pauline has set up her own business called Canine Tutor so its good that we actually still can have her support if we need it. If your struggling with a course and need some extra support I would recommend her http://www.caninetutor.co.uk/


I have also been given an amazing opportunity to train as a CAP Assessor for LADs which starts in April. I’m also starting their Teaching Diploma as well as doing my CAP3! I’m really excited about this as I was planning to focus on teaching skills more and this is just ideal.
It’s going to be hard work, like I haven’t got enough on my plate but will be worth it, so lots of study for me this year again!

We have finished the CAP Courses we were offering with Helen for now and Helen is just coming to do training with the Staff at WaggaWuffins who will be continuing to work through their CAP Levels and I’ve allowed a couple of my college friends to come along too.

I feel this last few months I have really found where I want to go and will now be focusing on Dog Training and Behaviour only at Waggawuffins it’s what we excel at!

Winalot Family Moments Exhibition

I got tickets from Editor Beverley Cuddy from Dogs Today Magazine to the Winalot Family Moments Exhibition in London in December
I got to take Dinky my leonberger along and as we were representing Dogs Today magazine I had an exclusive interview with Ben Fogle. There is a full write up of the day in February’s Edition of Dogs Today magazine

Finishing off 2010

Since new year it has been really busy and hectic so here's the end news for 2010 better late than never!
November 2010 we have our CAP2 Assessments and myself, Matt, Jayne, Jackie, Cas and Gillian all passed with Distinction

Well done everyone !

Dog of The Year Awards 2010

We had our Christmas Parities in December and gave our annual awards which were as follows
Puppy of the Year 2010 was Casper the Chihuahua
Young Dog of the Year 2010 was Jet the Patterdale
Agility Dog of the Year 2010 was Ralph the Collie
Dog of the Year 2010 was Jasper the Staffie

Well done to all the winners at the parties and thank you to Caroline from Vets4Pets and Claire from Woof n’ Tumble for being our Judges
My Fav was Diesel the Rottie in his Fancy Dress Outfit

I was meant to go on a gundog training day with Helen in December but the weather was bad and we decided not to risk it which was good job because the Frontera broke down again !

Happy New Year

Well we have been that busy I've had no time to update my blog and I have loads to talk about...but thats not unusual!

I will split the news into separate blogs as we have CAP2 success, christmas parites and dogs of year awards, Shoot up Training day with Pickles, College News, Plans for the New Year, my Trip to London to the Winalot Awards and much more................
watch this space!

College, Graduation, Training Days and Poorly Doggies

loads of stuff has been happening over the past few weeks. Matt started his FdSc in Canine Behaviour and Training, I started my BSc in the same subject. Matt has done a block weekend and has a block week coming soon. I had a block week in October.

I’ve decided on my dissertation and I’m going to research the time it takes to train dogs using different methods.

We had two CAP2 training days which have been really good the last one is next Sunday.
I did my first Clicker Free-Shaping Workshop with was full and got lots of great feedback so more of those to come. It’s the Clicker Gundog Training Day tomorrow, really looking forwards to it!

Last Saturday I graduated a Beverley Minister in East Yorkshire with FdSc in Canine Behaviour and Training. Jon and my Mum and Dad came along, it was a great day!



And finally I have a featured behaviour case history in Decembers Dogs Today Magazine, its their 20 Year Anniversary edition!

I’ve been keeping updated with the Animal Training and Behaviour Council and the changes the organisations are making to fall inline with the plans. It looks good.

Pickles has been poorly and ended up at the vets on a drip, but is much better now. Taz had to have 2 lumps removed and tested, thankfully they are benign. So we’ve had a few visits to the vets over the last few weeks and lots of stress!

I have decided to close the Doggie Daycare for the time being due to other work commitments we have for 2011. We have been sending enquiries over to Mypetstop in Denton which is a great place just off the M60. We are still offering a dog walking service.

I’m currently (along with everything else) writing courses and setting up a new business venture, more of that soon!

The shop is full of doggy goodies for Christmas and I have Christmas Parties to Plan next week!

My PC crashed and died this week so have lost all the emails received, so if you have sent an email and had no reply, please resend or phone the office with your enquiry

That’s all for now!!!

Beginners Pet Dog Agility Training Day, Bury, Greater Manchester Lancashire

We have an Agility Training Day In December for Pet Dogs