Classes Offered
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Strengthen your bond with your dog while learning the basics for competition obedience.

• Obedience Novice Outline
• Learn to make training fun for you and your dog.
• Learn heeling footwork including position, starts, halts, change of pace and turns (left, right, about turns).
• Perfect your dog’s attention while stationary and moving.
• Learn recalls and fronts and finishes.  
• Exposure to Figure 8’s.
• Sit/stand for Exam.
• Weekly Sit and Down Stays

Prerequisite: Obedience Foundation

Below are the skills covered in our Obedience Advanced class. “Doodles” are unusual things added to an exercise. Keeps your dog on their toes.

• Heeling: Drills and patterns. Refine all turns, change of pace and halts. Refine on and off leash
• Figure 8: Doodles. Refinement.
• Obedience Doodles: All turns. Fronts. Finishes. Find heel position. Set ups.
• Ring Procedures: Move from exercise to exercise with attention.
• Stand for Exam: Build skills.
• Recall: Work on recalls using Gizmo. Left and right finishes. One command to finish.
• Sit and Down: Goal is one minute sit and one minute down.
• Sit, Stay. Get Leash: Sit stay while handler gets leash and returns.
• Off leash heeling.
• Discussion of AKC Rules Book.
• Miscellaneous: Transitioning away from food and constant talking. Mild distractions.

Prerequisite: Obedience Novice

You will be building on skills covered in Obedience Advanced class, Trial Ready will provide fun games, distractions and proofing challenges in preparation for competition. Teams will learn to move confidently around the ring together as one unit during exercises as well as between exercises.

• Heeling: typical ring patterns as well as more challenging unusual patterns including turns, changes of pace and halts, both on and off leash.
• Figure 8: exercises and drills to enhance performance.
• Fronts & Finishes: drills and games to enable dogs to perform fronts & finishes with accuracy and enthusiasm.
• Stand for Exam: assistance in teaching dog to stand promptly and maintain position until released by handler to move smartly to next exercise.
• Recalls: work toward prompt, brisk response to handler’s command as well as nailing fronts, with finishes to both left and right.
• Command Discrimination: exercises to teach dog to move promptly and efficiently into position changes.
• Stays: work on maintaining solid stays (sit, down and stand) on all exercises requiring dog to maintain position until released by handler.
• Retrieving and Drop on Recall will NOT be taught in this class, although dogs with those skills may be proofed and challenged on those exercises.

Prerequisite: Obedience Advanced

Offers both Open and Utility instruction.

1. Open Exercises: Command discrimination/signals, drop on recall, retrieve on flat and high jump, broad jump and stand get your leash.
2. Utility Exercises: Signals, scent articles, gloves, moving stand, go outs and directed jumping..
3. Ring Management: Ring entry and transitions.

Open:
To join this class, dog must have the following: retrieve, reliable sit/down stays, under off-leash voice control, allow muzzle/mouth to be touched.

Exercises that will be taught:
drop on recall, broad jump, high jump (not necessarily with a retrieve), command discrimination will be taught to be performed at a short distance of about 10 feet.

Skills needed to advance to Open class: reliable retrieve (with correction for non-retrieve, close drop, broad jump with limited guides, high jump (with or without retrieve).

• Rules and regulations will be presented and discussed.
• Individual components of the exercises will be taught and practiced before attempting to combine the parts into a complete exercise.
• The classes will be small so that each team will get individual attention.
• This will be an ongoing process so that each team can continue to hone their skills until they are proficient enough to move up to the Open class.

Utility:
The Utility Intro class is designed to familiarize the new utility student and/or dog to all the Utility Exercises in preparation for moving into the regular Utility Class.

Equipment needed is leash and collar, Utility Articles, Utility gloves and any guides you use to assist your dog. Maximum 6 students.

• Rules and regulations will be presented and discussed.
• Individual components of the exercises will be taught and practiced before attempting to combine the parts into a complete exercise.
• The classes will be small so that each team will get individual attention.
• This will be an ongoing process so that each team can continue to hone their skills until they are proficient enough to move up to the Utility class.

Prerequisites: Off lead heeling, a reliable retrieve, a reliable recall and familiarization with jumps.

1. This class is for the beginning, intermediate or advanced Utility handler/dog. Understand that the class works on pieces of the exercises and not on polishing an exercise.
2. Dogs should be in the learning stages of and develop a basic understanding of each of the exercises.
3. Handlers should have read the description of the Utility exercises and understand the principal parts of each exercise.
4. Dogs should have a reliable retrieve, be able to heel off leash, and have a reliable recall.
5. This class does not teach heeling but will use some heeling in the teaching of the signal exercise.
6. Dogs can be at any level in the scent discrimination exercise. The method used is up to the student.
7. Minor distractions are used as appropriate.
8. Both the dog and handler get to work on various parts of each exercise.
9. Emphasis is on a happy working relationship between dog and handler.

1. This class is for development and refinements of all Utility class skills.
2. Students should understand all of the exercises.
3. Students’ should be able to do all Utility exercises and dogs should have a basic understanding of each exercise.
4. It is not necessary to have full length go outs but dog should understand the command to go and to sit. They should understand the hand direction to jump.
5. This is not a heeling class. Dogs should be able to heel with handlers and understand the stand signal. Full distance in signals is not required and will be further developed in this class.
6. Students may still be on a tie down mat with articles but dogs should already be introduced to the article exercise.
7. Ring distractions are utilized in this class.

We offer a nighttime Rally Beginner class for “new to Rally” students.  
Prerequisite Obedience Novice (see description above) or equivalent skills: loose leash walking, moving attention, changing positions (sit, stand, down), holding a stay, simple changes of pace and the basics of left, right and about turns.

You Will Learn:

How Rally signs work
Understand sign conventions/definitions/placement for performance
Understanding sign families – similarities and differences
Heeling: Loose leash, halts, right turns, left turns, lateral moves, pivots, all 180’s
Cones
Call fronts
Downs & stands
Walk arounds & backups
Jumps
Stays
Leash management for true loose leash heeling
How to successfully heel with signs

Register now for Rally Beginner:

Our popular conformation handling classes help owner-handlers develop the skills needed to present their dogs successfully in the show ring.

Classes focus on:

• Proper ring presentation
• Gaiting and stacking techniques
• Understanding how judges evaluate dogs
• Handling strategy and ring confidence
• Show preparation and ring etiquette

These classes are taught by professional handler Lisa Hall and are suitable for both beginners and experienced exhibitors.

Class Details

Schedule: Monday evenings, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Session Length: 6 weeks
Cost: $160 per session
Or $30 for single class

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Interested in honing you and your dog’s heeling skills?

Heeling Rx is your prescription!

This class is designed to address specific heeling problems through the use of attention-building, fine-tuning exercises, proofing, and varied and complex distractions.

Prerequisite: Must be at Obedience Advanced level or above.

Register now for Heeling Rx at 10:00AM:

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• Our Puppy Competition class is for handlers who have previously titled a dog, are interested in competing at trials or have been through our Competition classes. Puppies will be introduced to Novice, Open and Utility exercises. Puppies over six months will be approved on a case by case basis.

  Register now for Puppy Competition: