Most clubs are clicker friendly these days. You'll always have some bad apples here and there that don't believe in the clicker but most of the clubs at least accept the clicking. However it's very hard to find a club with trainers that know how to do it the right way and go into detail and depth, show you exactly how it works and go through every single step with you. At least that is the experience I made.
I went to many different clubs, watched their training and it took me a year to finally find a club that has exactly what I am looking for. Don't get me wrong, I love the girls at the club where I was training at for the longest time but I want to go the obedience route and I can't do that with them. They don't do obedience and in two days I have learned more than in the past half a year. We've learnt targeting, we learned about rear leg awarness, which we never did at the other club, they offer classes every single day, except for Monday and Friday, so I don't have to worry about stressing myself out if and how I am going to train three dogs in just two days of the week. They've got 4+ classes a day and that means I can train every dog in seperate classes and don't have to rush to and exchange the dogs every five minutes. I can go through the class, concentrate on one dog and once the class is over I have enough time to put one dog away and get the next dog.
I went to many different clubs, watched their training and it took me a year to finally find a club that has exactly what I am looking for. Don't get me wrong, I love the girls at the club where I was training at for the longest time but I want to go the obedience route and I can't do that with them. They don't do obedience and in two days I have learned more than in the past half a year. We've learnt targeting, we learned about rear leg awarness, which we never did at the other club, they offer classes every single day, except for Monday and Friday, so I don't have to worry about stressing myself out if and how I am going to train three dogs in just two days of the week. They've got 4+ classes a day and that means I can train every dog in seperate classes and don't have to rush to and exchange the dogs every five minutes. I can go through the class, concentrate on one dog and once the class is over I have enough time to put one dog away and get the next dog.
So yeah, I am probably leaving my old club. I love the girls there and they are great trainers. Without them Yukon wouldn't be the dog he is today. They gave me the foundation but I have to move to the next level... now!
The Dog Handler
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We have no concept of such dog training clubs in the US. This is such an amazing concept to me! Is it expensive to participate?
No, it's really not expensive to train there. The club I usually went to lets you train for free for the first quarter and than you pay 35 Euros for each quarter and you can go to every class they have. The new club charges 50 euros if you are not a member. If you are a member of the club it's a lot cheaper but than you pay for the membership. The trainers are volunteers and do it because they love doing it. I've heard that it is very expensive in the States and that they charge hundreds of dollars for a couple of sessions. That is very sad to me.
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