Rally
Rally Obedience is a good starting point for people new to dog sports. You and your dog navigate a course that contains a varying number of signs. You work as a team, performing the skill required at each sign. Communication with your dog and cheering her/him on is allowed. Rally requires a functional heel (i.e. a tight leash at any point through the course will result in points off and even a Not Qualified as a final score). Rally obedience as a sport has multiple titling levels: Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Excellent and Master. The Novice and Intermediate levels are performed on leash, any level above that is off leash - hence the requirement for a functional heel. Our weekly run throughs offers a multi level course for you to run your dog perform. You can pick the signs that you're familiar with and/or learn new signs to help advance your skill set. You get multiple chances to run the course and can work on improving your heel work during the sessions. Check out the video below of Sailor doing an Excellent level rally course.
AKC Virtual Rally Program
AKC has a virtual Rally program that allows you to video your runs (Novice through Excellent) and submit them to AKC for judging. Judy Gamet, our Canine Musical Freestyle trainer, works with clients to practice the courses and then videos the performance for submission to AKC. For more information contact Judy at Judy@dogscandance.com.
Obedience
Obedience Run-Throughs: all levels.
Run by Teresa Russell
Wednesdays 6-7 pm. $60/4 sessions
Competition Obedience is a structured dog sport that highlights the dog's ability to follow commands with enthusiasm and precision. The sport was started in the 1930's and include skills like: heeling on and off leash, directed retrieves, figure 8s, recalls and more. Each level of Obedience has 4-5 tests that the dog has to pass in order to qualify at that level. Our weekly drop in classes works on the skills needed to compete at the various AKC levels of Competition Obedience: Beginner Novice, Novice, Open and Utility. The video below shows an example of a dumb bell recall over a high jump and a figure 8 heeling pattern.
