Description
Our Obedience for the Sport Dog 2 class is designed with the Sport Dog & Handler in mind.
Imagine having reliable control over your dog at the highest levels of distraction, including dog sports events while competing, entering, exiting or spectating.
We will be increasing criteria for all skills and learning how to USE these skills in real-world scenarios. (We will not be visiting events, all lessons are at the Pack of Paws facility)
- Reliable Focused Heel
- Increased Distraction, teaching your dog to ignore their environment for you
- Sit & Stay
- Increased Distraction, Judges dancing near your dog!
- Imagine the perfect Start Line Stay for Agility or Dock or other sport
- Distance Sit or Down up to 20 ft
- Down & Stay
- Imagine watching an event or waiting your turn without any chaos to manage
- Added distraction
- Stay on Task
- Keep your dog on task whether agility, disk or other instead of leaving the activity to visit or sniff
- Added distraction
- Reliable and Laser FAST Recall
- In any environment, outdoors or indoors
- Added Distraction
- Loose Leash Walking
- In and around the event even in the densest population of persons, dogs, distractions.
- Engagement & Focus
- Your dog will remain interested in YOU no matter what else is going on
Things to Bring:
- Obscene amount of yummy treats
- 2 Toys for tugging (no loose balls, any balls must be on a string or strap)
- Food and toys must be stored on your person in a vest, kilt, pouch, etc.
- Sense of humor!!
Class Format:
- Some lessons we will be working 1 dog at a time while the non-working dogs wait their turn in the car
- Some lessons we will be working 1 dog at a time while the non-working dogs wait their turn crated in the building (you provide the crate). If your dog is not crate trained you may keep your dog leashed and bring a mat.
- Some lessons we will be working 1 dog at a time while the non-working dogs wait their turn on leash while working skills.
- Some lessons we will be working as a group, all dogs simultaneously working on the same or different skills
- Increased distractions will be provided
