Obedience: Utility
July 18 @ 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm
Prerequisite: The dog must have earned at least one leg in the Open class toward their CDX, be able to execute scent discrimination among several articles, and have a general understanding of the Directed Retrieve & Directed Jumping exercise, or with the approval of the NOCI Director of Training.
All the skills covered in the Pre-Utility class will be refined to prepare the student to show at the Utility level.
Skills:
- Heeling with no verbal commands to their dog (all signals)
- A drop, sit, & come using no verbal commands (all signals)
- A stand at the halt in the heeling & signal exercise
- The scent discrimination exercise, where the dog is trained to find & retrieve an article scented by the handler
- The directed retrieve exercise, where the dog will learn to retrieve the correct glove from the three placed out
- The moving stand exercise, which includes a more thorough exam than at the Novice level
- The directed jumping exercise, which consists of a 40’ go out, and then a directed recall over either the high or the bar jump
