Upcoming Workshops
Featured workshop - Control Unleashed Weekend
June 8-9, 2024
This two-day workshop is an immersive opportunity to:
Connect with your dog
Meet other amazing people who love their dogs
Learn from experienced certified control unleashed instructors, positive reinforcement trainers on the cutting edge, best practices in positive reinforcement training
Providing your dog with more agency/choice
Develop or strengthen skills to help your dog feel better
Recognize how your dog is feeling and support them in a variety of contexts
Use in a wide variety of settings that are actually applicable to your life with your dog
To best set our dogs up for success (whatever that means for you and your goals!)
Herding with Sonja Galley
February 17, 2024 | 10 a.M. - 2 P.M.
Geared towards the beginner handler, learn herding terms and definitions, flatwork games to play when you don’t have regular access to livestock, stockmanship, and starting your dog on stock.
This will build on the December ’23 workshop but is also suitable to teams at the very start of their herding journey.
intro to Rally with Jessica Dinowitz
February 25, 2024 | 9 A.M. - 11 A.M.
All-Levels Scent Work with Jessica Dinowitz
February 25, 2024 | 12 P.M. - 2 P.M.
This all level workshop is open to any team that has completed a beginner or intro workshop at HHF. Teams may be on either food or odor. The all level workshop will meet teams where they are in training and work to gain a deeper understanding of how to handle and read their dog. Every team will experience new and challenging hide placements, from high hides, inaccessibile, to introducing concepts like thresholds. Receive personalized hide placements, attention, and feedback.
Every dog can play! Teams are encouraged to treat this like a class and keep coming back to expand knowledge and advance through the phases of Nose Work development.
Intro to Scent Work with Jessica Dinowitz
March 24, 2024 | 10 a.M. to 12 p.m.
This intro workshop will start new teams on the foundations of nose work. Learn about the history of K9 Nose Work, why we train the way we do, and watch your pup find their nose! Learn from your dog’s behavior throughout narrated searches.
This workshop is perfect for any team who has never done nose work before or teams who just want to brush-up. This workshop is on primary (food) only. Reactive and fearful dogs are welcome.
All-Levels Scent Work with Jessica Dinowitz
March 24, 2024 | 1 p.M. to 3 p.m.
This all level workshop is open to any team that has completed a beginner or intro workshop at HHF. Teams may be on either food or odor. The all level workshop will meet teams where they are in training and work to gain a deeper understanding of how to handle and read their dog. Every team will experience new and challenging hide placements, from high hides, Inaccessibile, to introducing concepts like thresholds. Receive personalized hide placements, attention, and feedback. Every dog can play! Teams are encouraged to treat this like a class and keep coming back to expand knowledge and advance through the phases of Nose Work development.Reactive and fearful dogs are welcome!
Dog’s must be crated when not running.
Tracking Series with Kyle McCraith
April 12, May 17, June 7, July 19 | 9 a.M. to 4 p.m.
Each week, dogs and their owners will build upon their current skill set with the goal of teaching the dog tracking concepts and variables. Outcomes will vary.
Students must bring an ample supply of rewards (treats/toys) that their dog values, water, water dish, a long-line and non-restrictive tracking harness. A treat-pouch or similar setup (cloth carpenter’s apron, etc.) is recommended.