Classes

How To Register For Legacy Classes

Legacy's fun, new curriculum moves folks into specialty Continuing Education classes more quickly than before!

Important Please Read!

Pre-registration is a must. To reserve your spot in the class, please follow these steps:

  1. Check to be sure you can make all of the classes.

    The first class is essential. We do not schedule make-up sessions.

  2. Complete our profile form.

    Download form here (PDF). If you are unable to download the form, please call and we will send you a form.

  3. Obtain your dog's shot record.

    Required vaccines for all dogs are Parvovirus, Distemper, Hepatitis and
    Rabies (required after 12-16 weeks of age). A licensed veterinarian must
    have administered the most recent vaccine at least one week prior to the
    start of class. Please note, if you are enrolling for Puppy HeadStart, your
    veterinarian may feel it's appropriate for your puppy to begin class BEFORE
    all vaccinations are completed.

    Please discuss your Puppy HeadStart plans with your veterinarian before you
    come to class.

  4. Bring or mail your profile to our office with your payment.

    We accept checks, cash and credit cards. You will not be enrolled in class until you complete all these steps.

Class fees are non-refundable. Thanks.

Classes

  • Puppy HeadStart (check calendar)

    Puppies are like wet clay, waiting to be shaped. Like clay, you need to work with the puppy early on or he will become “set in his ways.” Recent research has shown that the critical periods for a puppy’s mental development occur before 16 weeks of age. Puppies are learning every minute, with or without our influence. The trick is to provide an environment to make learning good manners easy and learning inappropriate behavior difficult. Legacy’s S.O.C.I.A.L. puppy program makes sure you don’t miss the critical windows of opportunity. Exercises from each of these six important topics will be presented during each 30 minute Puppy HeadStart Class:

    S-Strange Surroundings
    O-Opportunity for Training Good Manners
    C-Care and Handling
    I-Interesting Stuff to Explore
    A-Associate with Nice Dogs and People
    L-Living Happily Together

    This class is free with paid registration for Pet Dog Manners. If you’d like to attend Puppy HeadStart, please discuss your plans with your veterinarian. Puppies between eight and sixteen weeks of age and their familes are eligible to attend. To register please contact the Legacy office at 360-683-1522 or email info@legacycanine.com.

  • Pet Dog Manners (PDM) (check calendar)

    The goal of this class is to establish a mutual bond and appropriate relationship between families and the dogs living with them. Using methods based on positive reinforcement, we will teach you how to communicate with your dog. Our Pet Dog Manners class, for adolescents and adults (16 weeks of age and older) begins with a 90 minute orientation for humans only. We encourage you to bring your family. Attendance at orientation is mandatory. At the orientation you will receive a detailed  illustratedhandbook written by Terry Ryan describing the mechanics and practical application of each exercise. The remaining seven classes will meet once a week for 50 minutes. We teach attention, walking nicely on leash, come when called, sit, and down, and then put them together into useful real life applications. For example, one of our exercises is called "Pizza Delivery". You'll learn how to teach your dog to sit and stay when the doorbell rings and a pizza is delivered. Pet Dog Manners class is the foundation and launching pad for all of our continuing education courses.
    $120. 8 sessions.

     

Legacy Continuing Education

  • Brush Up Basics (check calendar)

    This is a great class to take after Pet Dog Manners. We'll concentrate on Come, Heel and Attention - three essential but often weak pet dog exercises. We'll provide new contexts to help you refine these important attention based exercises.
    $50. 3 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM.

  • Canine Rally 101 (check calendar)

    A fun way to continue training, the sport of Rally is a newer variation of obedience competition. Lower key and more fun, you and your dog follow a marked course of 10-15 stations. At each station you perform the exercise posted on the station sign. Many of the beginning rally exercises are the exercises you learned in Pet Dog Manners - sit, down, come, heel, etc. New exercises you'll learn are the serpentine, right and left turns, spiral rights, moving downs and lots more.
    $120. 6 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM.

  • Canine Rally 102 (check calendar)

    Continue learning the more than 50 exercises you'll encounter in rally competitions. Advanced rally courses consist of 15-20 stations. At each station dog and handler perform the exercise posted on the station sign. Advanced exercises you will learn in this class include Side Step Right, About Turn Right and Forward, Stand Dog, Walk Around Dog, Pivot right and Pivot Left, Offset Figure 8 and others.
    $120. 6 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM and Canine Rally 101.

  • Agility 101 (check calendar)

    An introduction to the popular canine sport of agility. The class will focus on safety for the dog and handler, communication techniques important for agility, building teamwork and motivation, proper jumping techniques, and basic handling skills.
    $120 6 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM and approval of instructor.

  • Canine Good Citizen 101 (CGC) (check calendar)

    This is another good class for you to take after PDM. In this class you will work on the skills needed to pass the American Kennel Club Canine Good Citizen test. Heeling, dog to dog interactions, come, and stay will all be practiced. You will also teach your dog the "leave it" exercise. The ten specific CGC skills will be covered. You have an option to take the regulation AKC test on the last day of class (AKC certificate charge is $5.00). Click here for more detailed information.
    $60. 4 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM.

  • Animal-Assisted Activity (AAA) (check calendar)

    Legacy has been asked to provide specialized "therapy" dogs for visits in specific health care facilities. A threesome is formed: you, your dog and a human health-care professional. The team will provide appropriate experiences for individual patients. Handlers will learn about the various aspects of the populations to be visited. Dogs will learn the specific "therapy" skills deemed appropriate by the national Pet Partners organization. Both dog and handler must pass a screening provided by a representative of the Delta Society, an international resource on the human-animal bond.
    $95. 4 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM.

  • Fun and Games (check calendar)

    Have a good time with your dog, brush up on PDM basics, and teach your dog some new behaviors while playing a variety of games with your dog.
    $95. 4 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM.

  • Drama Dogs (check calendar)

    Practice basics, learn new behaviors, put them all together into a play.
    $95. 4 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM.

  • Skateboarding (check calendar)

    Teach your dog to skateboard! Bring your own skateboard and lots of yummy treats for your dog.
    $50. 3 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM.

  • Freestyle (check calendar)

    Learn How to Dance With Your Dog! We'll use targeting to create some cool dance moves, and put together some mini routines. There's heelwork to music, and K9 dressage, both more laid back than traditional freestyle. We'll sample a little of each in this fun class. Click here for more detailed information.
    $120. 6 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM.

  • Scent Work, Tracking, Search and Rescue (check calendar)

    Do you have a dog that loves to use her nose? Does it make you think maybe your dog might be a good Search and Rescue dog? Search and Rescue Dog training is a serious commitment of time, money and effort. You can explore some of the requirements of SAR training in this class. You’ll learn about tracking and scent discrimination a main component of Search and Rescue. Tracking is a fun activity and formal sport for dogs. Most dogs can learn to track, it’s part of what makes your dog the creature that he is. Click here for PDF flier.
    $95. 4 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM.

  • Tricks (check calendar)

    Intrigued by the idea of clicker training? Build on the basics you learned in PDM to teach some fun tricks. You and your dog can entertain your holiday guests with the tricks you learn in class. The instructor will suggest behaviors to train but if you have your own idea, we can help you get started. Some fun tricks are "Take a Bow", "Put Your Toys Away", "High Five" or "Retrieve". You will gain experience in timing, using food and play rewards to their best advantage.
    $95. 4 sessions. Prerequisite: PDM.

Free Workshops

These are 90-minute workshops presented by Terry Ryan on a variety of subjects. Pre-registration is required, workshops are open to the public and are for humans only (no dogs, please).

(check calendar for specific dates)

 

  • Home Alone - Help for the Latchkey Dog

    When left home alone, some dogs act out in troublesome ways. You might come home to discover your furniture chewed on or your door scratched. Perhaps your dog had diarrhea or his mouth and coat are wet from stress panting and drooling. A generalized term for this type of behavior is the Latchkey Dog Syndrome. The dog is not doing this to get even with you for leaving him alone. His actions are a reaction to his environment. This type of behavior can be prevented or improved. Find out more by attending the Home Alone workshop.

  • Barking

    It's normal for dogs to bark. Barking too much, too loudly, or at the wrong times is a problem, for the dog and for those nearby. Determining why your dog barks is the first step to problem solving. Find out more about inappropriate barking and how to prevent or decrease this behavior at the Barking workshop.

  • The Toolbox

    What to do when canine and human lifestyles get out of sync. Practical solutions will be offered for behaviors that worry dog owners such as barking, digging, chewing, etc.

  • Canine Body Language

    All dogs speak the same language, whether they are Labrador Retrievers, Beagles, Poodles or Pugs. With slides, videos, live demonstrations, handouts, and a Power Point presentation by Terry Ryan, CPDT, we’ll help you learn how to speak dog! Click here to download PDF flier.

  • Your New Puppy

    Puppies are like wet clay, waiting to be shaped. Like clay, you need to work with the puppy early on or he will become "set" in his ways. The puppy is learning every minute, with or without our influence. The trick is to provide an environment to make learning good manners easy and learning inappropriate behaviors difficult. Find out how you can connect the "plug" and "sockets" in your puppies brains.

Online Audio Telecourses

These are taped versions of past Telecourses available on Raising Canine's web site, presented by Terry Ryan.

  • How and Why We Changed our Puppy Menu
  • Let's Have a Fourth of July Party!
  • Barking in Class from "Coaching People to Train Their Dogs"

You can register for any of these at a time that is convenient for you on the Raising Canine's web site: http://www.raisingcanine.com/Professionals/Green/Pro-AudioSpeaker.htm

Team Teaching

You, your dog and a Legacy instructor make up the "team". Team Teaching provides more support than a group class can offer. Your dog's temperament, your own physical ability and/or scheduling difficulties can more appropriately be addressed in Team Teaching. Legacy provides one-on-one instruction in the Pet Dog Manners exercises. An instructor will help train the dog, but will then transfer the skills to you. Some clients take Team Teaching and Pet Dog Manners at the same time, automatic help with homework!
The cost for three 30 minute sessions is $95.

Behavior Consultations

Behavior Consultations give immediate aid to families with dogs at risk. These private consultations evaluate and profile the dog and the situation. We customize a program to reduce or change the problem behavior. This service is provided by Terry Ryan. In addition, aggression expert Kathy Sdao, a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist from Tacoma, sees clients at the Legacy facility once a month. These specialized consultations are $200 for the first 90 minute session. Please contact the Legacy office for more details.

Customized Events

Legacy hosts customized workshops, seminars, camps and tours. These events are designed to meet the individual needs of your group and can vary in length from two days to two weeks. Most of the events take place in Washington State, but can involve instructors from all over the world.

  • Service Dog Training at Purdy Prison
  • Whale Watching
  • Hiking the Olympic National Park
  • Kayaking
  • Fresh or Salt Water Fishing
  • Mariners Game!
  • Victoria, BC (Only a 70-minute ferry ride away)
  • Indian Reservation Pow Wows, Salmon Bakes, Museum and Crafts
  • Visit a Wildlife Reserve

info@legacycanine.com * PO Box 3909 Sequim, WA 98382 * Phone/Fax 360-683-1522 * Tollfree 888-683-1522 * Directions