Whether you’re building strong foundations with a young dog or you’re ready to get started in agility, CCATS offers six-week courses to help you and your dog learn together.

Our Agility FUNdamentals and Introduction to Agility courses are separate courses designed for different purposes.

Agility FUNdamentals

Build great foundations with your young dog through games and play.

PAWS • PAUSE • PLAY Agility FUNdamentals is designed for dogs aged 9–18 months and focuses on the skills that help prepare a young dog for future agility training.
You’ll work on connection, confidence, focus, body awareness, self-control and engagement — all without using agility equipment.

Best suited to: Young dogs and owners wanting to develop strong training and relationship foundations.

Introduction to Agility

Ready to start agility? Start here.

Our six-week Introduction to Agility course introduces you and your dog to agility handling, training games and basic agility equipment.

You’ll learn how to communicate with your dog using body language and verbal cues while developing body awareness, focus, and self-control around distractions. By the end of the course, you’ll have started navigating basic agility equipment together. Canterbury Agility Society

Best suited to: Dogs aged 12 months and over whose owners want to begin agility training.

No agility experience is required, although dogs need basic recall and obedience skills. For handlers who are new to agility, completing Intro is the route into our ongoing Basics class.