Here's your chance to polish up your obedience skills for the AKC ring. Nancy has put 4 AKC OTChs on her dogs and judged AKC obedience for 20 years.
Gold Students - You decide what you need help with from Novice to Utility and she will help you develop a plan to reach your goals.
Silver Students - You can join and ask questions about the training that the Gold students are working on. Nancy can not take any personal training questions from the silvers. If you want to know what types of training the Gold students are working on, contact her directly or look at the syllabus for initial information from Gold students.
Bronze students: There is a WEALTH of information being discussed in this class. See the class syllabus for a list of the dogs that are participating, and read what sorts of issues they are working through.
If you are preparing a dog for obedience trials and you need the tiny details and polishing put into place, this class is a must for you.
There are no formal lectures in this class.
Here is a list of the things the Gold students will be working on in this class. As it progresses, we might work on other issues.
English Cocker (Open) – fronts and finishes, lagging on the figure 8, enthusiasm, position changes: stand to drop, sit to stand
Dutch Shepherd (Util) – signals, articles
Border Collie (Beginner Novice/Novice) – reducing reinforcements and distractions, broad jump, pivots for gloves (handler)
Australian Shepherd (Open) – Drop on recall, Fronts, Command Discrimination
Smooth Collie (Novice) – Increased duration heeling, position changes, fronts
Pembroke Welsh Corgi (Utility) – Signals, directed retrieve, scent discrimination
Labrador (Novice) – Drop on recall
Belgian Tervuren – Puppy Heeling
Labrador (Util) – Moving Stand, Signal Stand, Signal Stand->Drop
Sheltie (Rally Excellent, Novice) – Wide heeling and lagging, reducing reinforcements
Hovawart (TEAM) – heeling, dumbbell hold, stillness
Australian Shepherd (Open) - Drop on Recall, heeling
Faculty
Nancy Gagliardi Little (she/her) has been training dogs since the early 1980s, when she put an OTCH on her Novice A dog, a Labrador retriever. Since then she has put many advanced obedience titles on her dogs, including 4 AKC OTCH titles, 6 UD titles, 3 UDX titles, and multiple...