WE ARE MOVING!
For the past six years, we have loved being in our beautiful facility on Chaster Road, but the time has come that we now need more outdoor spaces. We are building our new, expanded training facility in Cobble Hill - only a 12 1/2 mins drive south of Duncan.
We are expecting the entire building project (class room, office, sports field) to take us through to spring, and some classes may be on hiatus for a while during the building of the classroom, or relocated to other venues.
Any timetable that involves builders and the weather has to be somewhat flexible - no disrespect to our builder friends, or Mother Nature!
During the building project,
our plan is for classes and other training services to proceed as follows:
PUPPY START RIGHT PROGRAMME
No interruption.
Classes and play groups are temporarily offered at the Stratford Room (aka "Pancake House" or "Scout Hall") at Cowichan Exhibition Park in Duncan, until our new training facility is complete.
FOUNDATION PROGRAMME
Classes are held at our temporary facility in Cobble Hill.
GENERAL PROGRAMME
Agility and Handler's Choice
These classes are also offered at our temporary facility in Cobble Hill until the new class room has been completed, and will be offered as 1/2 hour private lessons rather than 1-hour classes, at the same price.
Pay with your usual punch-card, same price for a 1/2 hr private lesson as for a 1-hr class.
Carting, Outdoor Manners and Outdoor Play Group
While Carting is on hold during the winter, Outdoor Manners and Outdoor Play Group continue as usual.
Rally Obedience
These classes will be on hold until our new classroom is finished in the spring.
Scent Detection
SD classes will be reduced to maximum three (3) students per class and will be offered in a combination of indoor and outdoor scent work at Cowichan Exhibition.
REACTIVE DOG PROGRAMME
Level I
The combined Conditioning & Manners module continues in the 1/2 hour private lesson-format, ie. the same format as the Rally, Scent Detection and BAT modules already have had for some time in this programme.
Conditioning & Manners will continue in/outdoors at Cobble Hill during the building project.
Reactive Rally will be on hold until our new classroom has been completed.
Reactive Scent Detection will continue indoors/outdoors at Cowichan Exhibition.
Pay with your usual punch-card, same price for a 1/2 hr private lesson as for a 1-hr class.
Level II - BAT
No interruption, except for winter weather!
BAT continues as before outdoors in Cobble Hill.
PRIVATE INHOME BEHAVIOUR CONSULTATIONS
No interruption. Private in-home behaviour consultations, and other private training, continue as before.
- Next ORIENTATION CLASS FOR NEW STUDENTS Feb 22
- WE ARE MOVING! Nov 25
I sincerely want to thank all the trainers who worked with us on
training our newest member of the family, Mila. Actually it was
training us but we won't admit to that!! We had the privilege of
working with Karen, Jody, Glenda, Bev and Lisbeth in our Foundation
Classes. Every trainer took an active role in helping us achieve
success. We felt that they were as excited with our small steps
towards success as we were! The training program was so well laid out
with the book, clickers, backpack and superb teachers that it made it
easy to be successful if you were willing to put in the time. It also
made it fun! There is a saying "it takes a village or community to
raise a child". We think the saying could say "it takes Cowichan
Canine to help raise a dog". We are now hoping to continue with
agility classes and maybe even try the scent class.
Thank you again
Mila, Marg, Andre, Sarah & Curtis
Cowichan Valley
We enrolled our dog Xena in the basic Foundations course. Cowichan Canine provided professional and usable training for us. Our trainer Stephanie is an amazingly patient and knowledgeable instructor. The small class size was ideal and we always were able to get the attention and training instruction we needed. I would highly recommend Cowichan Canone to any dog owner who wants to improve the behaviour of their dog. We will be enrolling Xena in more classes in the near future.
Patrick Doherty
Cobble Hill
