In 2023 Blue Fawn Maine, LLC opened its doors in Waterboro, Maine. Located in the Village District of Town, BFM’s training facility is 12 minutes north of Sanford and 25 minutes west of Biddeford on Route 202. Blue Fawn Maine specializes in behavioral training, as well as offers pack walking, private sessions, workshops, and more.
Age Range: 8-20 weeks
OPEN-ENROLLMENT! JOIN ANYTIME! DROP-IN OPTION AVAILABLE!
Prerequisites: Puppies must be at least 8 weeks old at the start of class and have begun their vaccine schedule with a veterinarian.
Class Focus: The focus here is on starting you and your puppy off on the right foot together. Puppies will receive socialization opportunities with other puppies, gentle exposure to novel sights, sounds and surfaces, and the baby basics of obedience. Owners will learn how to address all of the common puppy challenges from house training to handling, biting, and nipping.
Puppies who meet the requirements of the AKC STAR Puppy test will be awarded with a certificate issued by The American Kennel Club.
Age Range: 16 weeks and up
Prerequisites: Dogs must be at least 16 weeks of age and UTD with their vaccine schedule at the start of class.
Class Focus: Acquire some skills. We’ll teach your dog to learn and we’ll teach you how to speak. Once your dog is looking to you. Your job is to show the, what you want. Skills include focus, sit, down, stay, place, leash walking, wait and recall.
Age Range: 6 months and up
Prerequisites: Level 1 or equivalent, Instructor approval.
Class Focus: Test some skills! Now that your dog has acquired a robust skill base, we’ll work on speed and accuracy through repetition and plenty of reinforcement. We’ll be fading some luring and helping our dogs to do some independent thinking to find the correct answers. We'll continue creating joyful, confident, cooperative companions, not just dogs who sniff for treats before they comply. This is where your bond begins to show and you lean into the relationship to achieve success as a team. A few new skills include distance targeting, drop on recall, send and a slightly more formal heel.
Dates:
Age Range: 1 years and up
Prerequisites: Level 2 or equivalent, Instructor approval.
Class Focus: You got this! Generalization is the task at hand here, just because your dog knows to perform a skill in one (controlled) setting, it doesn't mean they’ll know how to perform it elsewhere (weird doggie oddity). This is the phase where we begin to close the gap between the classroom and the wide open world. New skills will vary, but we’ll introduce some distance and moving drops and a retrieve.
Age Range: 18 months and up • Prerequisites: Level 2 or equivalent, Instructor approval. • Class Focus: Now you're preparing to soar! Let’s aim our sites on a formal certificate from the American Kennel Club that proves your dog’s skills meet a national standard! Go to BlueFawnMaine.com for more info.
