At K9 Playtime Academy, we’re all about innovation, so we’re really excited to share with you all the IMDT Partnership Course!

Are you:

• Looking to develop your current skills whilst learning about exciting new exercises?

• Ready to take your training journey with Fido to the next level?

Then look no further...The IMDT Partnership Awards are here!

As with humans, we believe, our dog's training and education does not stop at Nursery school - learning continues throughout our lives and so should your dog’s education. As a result we have designed our IMDT Grade Class.

The course is specifically designed to help you consolidate and review all the exercises that you and Fido have learned in our Foundation class (or if you have previously completed the KC Bronze Award) whilst still improving your dog's behaviour and preparing them for the real world.

We achieve this by incorporating new distractions and adding distance and duration to the exercises thus helping you and Fido take your training to the next level. We require pups to have attended previous classes before enrolling in this class.

We love teaching our new dogs and owners at our relaxed and realistic outdoor training venue in Brize Norton. During the IMDT course we will:

• Consolidate and review games covered in your Foundation Course

• Add distance, distractions and duration to previously learned games

• Introduce emergency type behaviours

• Introduce distance control behaviours

• Look at desensitisation, handling and grooming games in more detail

• Introduce new and exciting mental stimulation games through trick training, gun dog games, scent work and agility foundations

• Introduce IMDT Partnership Grade criteria

• We also cover the theory of how dogs learn and the how and why of our exercises. This aims to give you a better understanding of positive reinforcement methods and how you can teach your dog a complex skill by breaking it down into smaller steps.