COMPETITION OBEDIENCE CLASSES OFFERED AT TOP DOG:
All classes are 6 weeks
Competition Puppy Class: This class is for handlers with prior competition experience. An excellent start of puppies 8 weeks to five months of age who are destined for competition obedience. Puppies will be introduced to exercises from all levels of obedience training, including the basics of sit, down, and loose leash walking, as well as heeling, retrieving, and go outs.
Attention and Handling: This class is the foundation for the competition obedience program at Top Dog. All students planning to show their dogs for obedience titles must start here. A six week course on attention will be presented along with distance attention and attention games. Part of the class each night will be spent without the dog, working on handling and footwork (so please bring a crate or plan to leave your dog in the car for the last 15 minutes of class each week).
Novice: This class is for graduates of the Attention and Handling class. More emphasis is placed on heeling with attention. Turns and figure eights are introduced. Distance and distractions are increased for recalls and sit and down stays in preparation for off-leash work. Hand signals, the stand, and fronts and finishes are taught.
Open: This is an advanced class in competition obedience. It will cover such exercises as the retrieve on flat, retrieve over the high jump, the drop on recall, and the broad jump, command disccrinination as well as heeling and figure 8 and the Stand Stay/Get Your Leash exercise.
Utility: In this class we will cover the signal exercise, scent discrimination, the directed retrieve, moving stand, and directed jumping.
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