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Distraction?ACTION!

Sunday May 11 & 25

4:30 - 5:20pm

Vic West Community Centre

And you’ve:

  • 😩 Tried other training classes… but they fall apart in real life

  • 🫣 Felt judged, embarrassed, or frustrated

  • 🫠 Heard your dog described as “stubborn,” “crazy,” “dominant,” or “untrainable”

This class will change your world.

We’ll teach your dog to:

  • 🧊 Stay cool, calm, and collected—even around big distractions

  • 🐾 Respond to you instead of reacting to the world

  • 💤 Slow down, think first, and make better choices

  • 🛋️ Chill at home so you can go to the bathroom, hug your partner, or grab a snack in peace

You’ll Learn:

✔️ How to turn distractions into background noise for your dog
✔️ Why reactivity and over-excitement aren’t personality flaws—they’re trainable skills
✔️ Our top games to build real-life focus, calmness, and leash manners
✔️ How to help your dog recover from excitement instead of staying stuck in chaos mode

What’s Included:

🎓 Two powerful in-person training classes (50 minutes each)
🐾 Hands-on coaching to tackle your dog’s real-life distractions
📹 BONUS: Lifetime access to Distraction? ACTION! Online Program – $347 value
🐕 BONUS: Loose Leash LOVE Online Program – walk without stress ($97 value)
🏡 BONUS: Perfect Place Online Training – help your dog relax at home ($97 value)

This class is for you if…

Your dog is:

  • 🐕‍🦺 Always 10 steps ahead on walks, pulling like they’re in a race

  • 🐦 Obsessed with everything but you—birds, bikes, skateboards, leaves, dogs, people, the wind…

  • 🏃 Barking, chasing, or jumping when anything moves or changes

  • 🧍‍♂️ Struggling to settle down after walks, play, or exciting moments

  • 👀 Watching your every move around the house like it’s their business

In-Person Training Class
🧠 Help your distracted dog tune in, calm down, and make better choices—even when life is full of excitement.

All Mission Paws Dog School training uses Positive Reinforcement  - food/treats, play, toys, praise - to reward and encourage repeat behaviour. When done correctly this is a safe, kind, and extremely effective method to training. This is not about bribes or coercion. We are using the science of animal learning and neuroplasticity to reshape your dog's brain to choose the wanted outcome.

4 on the Floor: Polite Greetings for Excitable Dogs

Sunday April 27 & May 11

3:00pm - 3:50pm

Vic West Community Centre

In-Person Training Class
🏡 Teach your dog to stay grounded—literally!—with calm, polite greetings that don’t involve jumping, clawing, or chaos.

Does this sound familiar?

  • 😬 You're constantly apologizing when your dog launches at guests at the door

  • 😟 You stress every time grandparents visit, afraid your dog will knock them over

  • 😤 You come home to a leaping dog before you can even put your bags down

  • 🙈 Your counters are a free-for-all when your back is turned

  • 🫠 You’re rattled by barking, fence crashing, and frenzied reactions to the delivery person, neighbors, or passing dogs

This class is for you if you’re ready to swap chaos for calm.

Imagine your dog:

  • 🐾 Choosing to keep all four paws on the floor—even around exciting guests

  • 👵 Greeting grandparents with wiggles and sniffs, not body slams

  • 🎒 Letting you walk in the door and get settled without being mobbed

  • 🚫 Ignoring counters because they know good things come from being calm

  • 📦 Heading to their bed when the delivery person shows up instead of barking at the fence

You’ll Discover:

✔️ The 3 real reasons dogs jump—and why it’s more than just excitement
✔️ The core skills your dog must have to master calm greetings
✔️ Why yelling “OFF!” doesn’t work (and what to do instead)
✔️ How to build so much value in keeping 4 paws on the floor, your dog wouldn’t dream of jumping
✔️ How to protect dresses, countertops, coffee tables, and fences from flying paws

What’s Included:

🎓 Two in-person training classes focused on calm, polite behavior (50 minutes each)
📹 BONUS: Lifetime access to the 4 on the Floor Online Program – $97 value
🏠 BONUS: Lifetime access to Perfect Place Online Training – $97 value
💡 Tools, coaching, and step-by-step strategies you can use right away in real-life situations

Jumping stops here. 

All Mission Paws Dog School training uses Positive Reinforcement  - food/treats, play, toys, praise - to reward and encourage repeat behaviour. When done correctly this is a safe, kind, and extremely effective method to training. This is not about bribes or coercion. We are using the science of animal learning and neuroplasticity to reshape your dog's brain to choose the wanted outcome.

Rapid Recall

Class FULL

A fun, games-based class to teach your dog to come when called – no matter what’s going on around them!

Imagine instead…

  • 🚀 Your dog instantly turning and racing back to you the moment you call

  • 🙌 The confidence to enjoy off-leash adventures without panic

  • 🌍 Letting your dog explore while knowing they’ll always check back in with you

What’s Included:

✔️ Two in-person classes (50 minutes each)
✔️ Small group size for personalized coaching
✔️ Learn 6 recall games we swear by—your dog will choose you over squirrels, muds, and other dogs
✔️ Practice around real-life distractions with other dogs and people
✔️ FREE lifetime access to Rapid Recall ONLINE – a $147 value
✔️ FREE biothane long-line from Tiny Horse Mercantile + tutorial ($45 value)
✔️ BONUS: Lifetime access to Perfect Place online training – stop door-dashing and car-leaping ($97 value)

Ready to make off-leash freedom a reality?

Tired of your dog ignoring you when it matters most?

Say goodbye to:

  • 😩 Frustration when your dog plays Keep-Away

  • 😬 Embarrassment when you have to shout their name 5 times in public

  • 😱 Heart-stopping moments when they run toward a busy road or reactive dog

  • 🦋 That anxious flutter when you unclip their leash, hoping for the best

All Mission Paws Dog School training uses Positive Reinforcement  - food/treats, play, toys, praise - to reward and encourage repeat behaviour. When done correctly this is a safe, kind, and extremely effective method to training. This is not about bribes or coercion. We are using the science of animal learning and neuroplasticity to reshape your dog's brain to choose the wanted outcome.

Trick Training 101

Tricks are for Life Skills!

Impulse Control & Patience

  • For the dog who is distracted and struggles to focus with their human

  • “Busy” always getting into mischief or chewing inappropriate things

  • Tends to rush through everything

Fitness & Coordination

  • Provide exercise when the weather isn’t cooperative - smokey, snowy, raining, or hot, you will have plenty of way to exercise them in your livingroom

  • Helps your dog learn how to move their body functionally to prevent injuries

  • Trains their brain and body to improve focus, plus its really tiring!

Confidence Building

  • Boost your shy or anxious dog’s Optimism and Confidence through exploring interaction with different objects and textures

  • Helps your dog be more comfortable walking over sidewalk grates, being around novel items like when you move your furniture around or bring a suitcase around them.

Focus & engagement

  • Building focus and engagement with you means it’s easier to hold their attention around real-world distractions

  • Strengthens your communication and your relationship with fun interaction

  • Loose leash walking and recall will become so much easier when your dog looks forward to sticking close because they know they get a fun outcome with you!

Tricks You will learn

  • Shake a Paw - advancing into Scratch Board to file your dogs nails

  • Middle - advancing to Magic Hand & Middle on the Move for emergency recall and focus while others pass

  • Two Paws On - advancing to pivoting for hind-feet awareness, preventing injuries and strengthening core, glutes, and hamstrings

  • Spin - advancing to Magic Twist for switching sides while on leash for peaceful passes

  • “Sleepy” - Chin Target for easy grooming, settling on their bed, and

  • Bow/curtsy - a powerful play gesture when interacting with other dogs

BONUS:

  • Lifetime access to Perfect Place: Train your dog to relax anywhere online video program so that you can boost your Tricks duration and take your dog to patios, campsites, or the beach and keep them cool, calm, chill.

  • Lifetime access to the full online Tricks program coming April 1, 2025, including progressions on all the Tricks you learn in Tricks 101 plus many more!

Loose Leash LOVE walking your dog!

This class is for the dog who:

  • Starts pulling, jumping, barking or zooming with excitement the second you reach for their leash

  • Has their brain instantly 10 blocks ahead, pulling you down the street, into ditches to sniff, towards other dogs and people

  • Becomes “unreachable” when outside, like they’ve suddenly gone deaf

  • Won’t even take food outside, even cooked steak, so rewarding a “heel” isn’t even possible

  • Will even pull through a prong collar, martingale, or e-collar

You’re ready to:

  • Stop being dragged down the street as your frustration builds and your shoulder aches

  • Stop feeling disappointed the idea of your dogs walk and instead look forward to it!

  • Stop tripping over your own feet and instead move through the world with your dog as a team.

You will leave this class:

  • Knowing how to have your dogs focused attention from the second you reach for their leash and throughout your walk

  • With confidence knowing how to get your dog to choose you instead of pulling toward other dogs or sniffing in the ditch

  • Knowing how to give your dog a quality walk that exercises both their brain and their body without being dragged along like a train

  • Feeling like your dog’s teammate rather than their ball and chain