Sporting4dogs

About Sporting4dogs

Sporting4dogs is a grooming salon and dog training business in Steenderen. It offers coat care and dog training, both in groups and individually.

Grooming salon

The salon cares for dogs' coats using various grooming techniques.

• Clipping
• Thinning
• Hand-stripping
• Shaving
• Thinning
• De-shedding

Training

Hoopers and Sport & Spel are taught in group classes. Puppy training is an individual course of five 30-minute lessons.

• Hoopers
• Sport & play
• One-to-one puppy training

Hoopers

The dog learns to complete a course independently, following the owner's voice and hand signals. The lessons use gates, tunnels and barrels and are intended to promote teamwork and the bond between dog and owner.

• Hoopers
• Tunnels
• Barrels

Sport & play

The training is intended for dogs with basic obedience skills and sufficient social skills. Exercises include Rally-O, tracking, retrieving, brain games, target training and obedience.

• Rally-O
• Tracking
• Retrieving
• Brain games
• Target training
• Obedience

One-to-one puppy training

The individual lessons cover topics from the group classes and allow time for questions. The training can also be adapted.

• Attention exercises
• Relaxed walking
• Coming when called
• Sit

About the owner

Ingrid earned her dog grooming diploma in 2001. In 2017, she earned her diploma as a Kynologisch Instructeur (Dutch canine instructor) from O&O and qualified as a Hoopers instructor.