Scurry Dog - Level 1 Skills (Summer 2025)
Gundog Games for Active Pets
Course Summary
Build your Scurry Dog skillset and grow the connection and teamwork with your dog at the same time!
Scurry Dog fulfils dogs mentally and physically, while also giving you a clear structure for training essential everyday life skills.
There are five exciting games inside Scurry Dog: Retrieve, Nose Quest, Scramble Grid, Sniffit Trail and Everyday Dog.
These games reflect the challenges that gundogs and their handlers face in the shooting field, minus the birds, the guns and the tweed. (Find out more about the 5 games here: www.scurrydog.com)
Each game has its own skills and benefits, from nose games to retrieving, from speed to patience and focus.
Prerequisites:
All breeds are welcome to take part and play the gundog games of Scurry Dog.
For the Level 1 course, your dog needs to be able to focus on you and learn in an outdoor, natural space shared with other teams.
Your dog needs enjoy working for food and toys.
As a handler, you need to know how to use a food lure, how to use play for optimal results and how to use a clicker or a verbal reward marker effectively.
You also need to know the basic calming games and engagement games that we cover in the Foundation Course.
If you're not sure if you and your dog can do the above yet, check out the foundations course (it will give you fantastic foundations for any future dog sport) or drop me an email to info@synchrodog.co.uk so we can arrange 1-1 support for you before the next enrolment.
When and where:
Sunday - 1st June, 11:45am-13:15pm
Sunday - 15th June, 11:45am-13:15pm
Sunday - 29th June, 11:45am-13:15pm
Sunday - 6th July, 11:45am-13:15pm
Sunday - 20th July, 11:45am-13:15pm
Sunday - 3rd August, 11:45am-13:15pm
Location:
Private farm field near Tonteg, Pontypridd.
Parking on site, no toilets available here
check out an example class (different location)
Course Curriculum
Aleksandra Borawska
Hi, I'm Aleks!
I help people with crazy, lovable, naughty young spaniels (and other working breed pets) to build a happy harmonious and fun-filled life together. I support them in learning the skills they need, so that they can go wherever they want and to have amazing adventures together. I help them understand their adolescent spaniel, discover what's going on underneath the surface and create an amazing connection.
I am an accredited dog training instructor with IMDT (Institute of Modern Dog Trainers), a Mantrailing UK instructor and a UK College of Scent Dogs instructor. I'm currently working towards a gundog training instructor certification with Gundog Trainers Academy.
I am also a canine behaviour practitioner, with over 10 years of intensive practical experience, hundreds of successful behaviour modification programmes and an extensive continued professional development in dog behaviour and training.
I live in the Welsh mountains with my 6 dogs, including a working cocker, springer spaniel, a labrador retriever, a collie mix and a two staffordshire bull terriers. We train and compete in several dog sports and training projects, including scent detection, competition obedience, working gundog tests and GRC/Canine Athletics. In winter, I'm part of a beating team on three local shoots.
