Intermediate Obedience
YouTube Video of Intermediate Obedience Results
This is an example of the obedience your dog will learn from Intermediate Obedience
***This course is only offered to dogs that
have completed Beginners 1 & 2 or Off-Leash in 10!***
Once
you have completed the two levels of Beginners Obedience, you will
have the skills to expand your dog training to the next level.
Intermediate Obedience is the foundation for competitive
obedience and
gives your dog reliable off-leash obedience. You learn many new
skills as well as build a very strong relationship with your dog.
The two of you will become a team. You will read each
other. Your dog will become more obedient because he loves the
job, and the instances of him disobeying commands reduce dramatically
once you complete the Intermediate Obedience Levels.
Many
people just want a dog that is great off the leash. You will
achieve that through Intermediate Obedience. But many people find
that they love the obedience and wish to compete. Competition may
seem out of reach as you read this right now, but really it is within
reach for many dogs and their handlers. Through competition you
will receive "titles". These titles recognise the hard work and
dedication you have put into training your dog and the amazing
relationship that you have built through it.
Intermediate Obedience Level One
You
learn 3 new skills in the first level of Intermediate Obedience.
Your dog can SIT and DOWN very well. Now we will teach you
the STAND. In this command your dog will stand upon command, then
move to sit on command, down on command, back to sit on command, etc.
You will effectively teach your dog to complete these 3 commands
in any order you decide: Down, Sit, Down, Stand, Sit, Stand, Down etc.
Once your dog has learned STAND we will formalise it with the
STAND FOR EXAMINATION. This is an exercise in obedience
competition.
Your
dog will learn the FINISH command in two forms. The easier of the
two is finish right. The dog, on command, moves from sitting in
front of your feet, around behind your back and then sits beside your
left side. Finish left is somewhat trickier. I teach this
is a specific way so the finish left becomes the foundation to focus
heeling. It is a very important skill for your dog to have.
Your
dog knows how to recall and he knows how to down. We will teach
your dog to DROP ON RECALL. This requires an understanding of
sudden downs. Your dog must be capable of DOWN regardless of what
he is doing... if he is waling around, or trotting for a toy, he will
learn to DOWN instantly. Then we will apply this to the formal
DROP ON RECALL we see in competition. This is a very important
off the leash skill. Your dog is running around the trails and
someone is approaching on a bike, you can tell your dog to DOWN and
safely allow the biker to pass. They appreciate it very much.
This is just one example of how you can use Intermediate Obedience
training in everyday life.
6 Lessons
30 min. lessons
$185
Intermediate Obedience Level Two
***This course is only offered to dogs that
have completed Intermediate 1 or Competition Puppy***
 The single most important skill you will learn for advanced obedience is focus. Intermediate Obedience Level Two is the "hardest"
of the courses, even harder than the 20 week Advanced Obedience course
that is offered once per year. In this course you learn to "flow"
with your dog teaching him to focus heel. It becomes almost like
a dance, where your dog stays by your side looking up at you, while you
move backwards, sideways, forwards, right, left and about turns.
This requires some hard work, but in the end it is very worth it.
Once you achieve this level of obedience heeling, it would be
silly, in my opinion, not to take it to the next level and compete...
you are SO close by this stage.
We
revisit RECALL in this course, but now we refer to it as the FRONT.
You will teach your dog to FRONT and focus, and FRONT and follow.
He will also have to find the position on his own when you move
away from it. This ensures that he knows exactly where he should
be. This helps us immensely in the retrieve.
Another
difficult skill to teach your dog is the DUMBBELL RETRIEVE. You
will effectively teach your to dog to take an item (it will be a
dumbbell, but you can expand that), hold it in his mouth for extended
periods without spitting it out, trot with it without chewing it, front
with it, pick it up off the ground and bring it to front etc. The
formal and finished product is called RETRIEVE ON FLAT. Your dog
will be sitting at your left side, you throw the dumbbell, you command
him FETCH, he leaves your side, gets the dumbbell and brings it to the
front of your feet, sits and presents it to you, you take it from him
on a command GIVE, and then you tell him to FINISH back to your left
side where he started. We will then teach him to do the same but
he has to jump over a jump to retrieve and back over the jump to bring
it back. This all take a bit of time.
10 Lessons
40 min. lessons
$230 |
