Northwest Obedience Club

Obedience: Pre-Novice
2028-02-29 12:30 - 13:20 (America/Chicago)
Prerequisite: Mastery of Beginner Obedience objectives.
As well as learning new exercises, Pre-Novice students will refine the skills they learned in the Beginner Obedience class.
Students in Pre-Novice class must master a level of criteria prior to advancing to a Novice level class with Instructor approval.

Heeling Skills:

Focus on handler/engagement between handler and dog (use of high-value treats)
Appropriate marking and rewarding of behavior
Proper leash handling
Use of commands
Heel position; auto sit in heel position upon halting
About turn, U-turn, Quarter turns on a pivot (left and right)
Gait changes (slow/fast)
Reverse and call to front
Dog is under control at all times

Commands:

Heel position (set up, get in, etc.)
Sit
Down
Sit and stand for exam
Finishes (swing and around)
Stay/wait at end of leash (one minute stay on sit and down)
Front/come at 40 feet (recalls)

Figure Eight:
Handler pacing remains the same while dog speeds up or slows down to accommodate the handler.

Obedience: Utility
2028-03-04 12:30 - 13:20
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
