duhunddu – Hundetraining Renate Ondrovics

About duhunddu – Hundetraining Renate Ondrovics

duhunddu is Renate Ondrovics' dog school on its own training ground at Klausenstraße 625 in Alland. Besides puppy, young dog and everyday courses, the focus is on scent work: mantrailing on four days a week and detection dog training.

Courses in small groups

According to the website, the group courses have at most four to six human-dog teams and eight sessions of 50 minutes each.

• Puppy course: for puppies of about 9 to 16 weeks. It is about contact with other dogs and people, calmness in new situations, recall, sit, down and first loose-lead walking.
• Young dog course: for dogs from about five months to one and a half years that already know the basic signals. Practice takes place in everyday life, i.e. in shops, in the pedestrian zone, in a restaurant and on public transport.
• Everyday training: for dogs of any age with basic knowledge, with encounter training and recall in changing surroundings.
• Groundwork: calm movement over different surfaces and obstacles. This promotes body awareness and coordination and, according to the website, is also suitable for sensitive dogs and seniors.
• Individual training: for topics such as loose-lead walking, recall, insecurity or encounters with other dogs, also for dogs for which a group is too much. You decide the scope together.

Mantrailing and detection dogs

In mantrailing the dog follows the scent of a particular person and finds the hidden person. According to the website, the only requirement is that the dog is free of pain; nobody needs prior knowledge. You should bring a padded harness, a 10-metre long line and soft treats. In detection dog training the dog learns to recognise a particular scent and indicate the find. Renate Ondrovics is a trainer with the association Naturschutzhunde, and her own dogs Cino and Bruce are certified as wildlife detection dogs for wolf scat and carcasses.

Dates

Puppy and young dog courses usually take place in spring and autumn, everyday training and groundwork run continuously; dates are available on request. Mantrailing runs at fixed times: Tuesday and Thursday 8:30 to 12 h, Friday from 15 h and Saturday from 9 h. The website does not give prices.

The trainer

Renate Ondrovics has run the dog school since 2012 and is an animal-welfare-qualified dog trainer. According to the website, she has also trained as a certified mantrailing trainer (2022), as a behaviour and training consultant (2012) and as an ÖGV trainer (2011). Renate Ondrovics is also on the State of Lower Austria's list of trainers approved for the proficiency certificate; the website does not currently offer its own proficiency course. Her husband Karl takes care of organisation, ground maintenance and equipment.

Training ground and contact

The ground in Alland has three fenced training areas, a fenced car park, a garden house with a covered seating area, a toilet and sports equipment. Enquiries go by phone to 0660 1625623 or by e-mail.

Automatically translated from German.

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