Living with Dogs - Family Dog Level 2 Class: Intermediate Family Dog Obedience

FAMILY DOG 2

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Family Dog 2 - Intermediate Obedience

This class is part two of our popular beginner’s Family Dog obedience curriculum. The objective of this class is to take your skills to the next level of fluency by improving reliability and responsiveness in more distracting situations. Family Dog II is designed to give the handler/dog team more confidence with a variety of structured exercises and fun games.

The main goals are for your dog to:

Perform a series of commands for praise and intermittent treats
Perform commands like sit stay through distractions such as sounds, objects (balls and toys), and motion.
Perform commands from greater distances for longer periods of time and with less and less leash control.
Perform the exercises to prepare for the CGC (Canine Good Citizen) test
Perform impulse control exercises like leave it and stay reliably
Perform behaviors without treats in hand as a lure

Previously learned skills are fine tuned and reliability around various distractions is the focus
Proofing the Heel around distractions
Maintain learned skills, avoid undesireable behaviors at all ages
Proper greetings of visitors, strangers and dogs
Reliable come or recall around distractions are a few of the exercises included
Polite greetings
Finish
Down at a distance and in motion
Three minute sit and down stay

Emphasis is put on the dogs being able to pass the ten tests required to gain the Canine Good Citizen Title .This is an intense but fun course where participants often go on to gain a CGC title. Expect a lively, active course with movement, interactions and distractions.

Prerequisites for this class:
• Sit on cue or hand signal 8 out of 10 times in a distracting situation and around new, non-family dogs
• Lie down on cue or hand signal 8 out of 10 times in a distracting situation and around other non-family dogs
• Walk on a loose leash at least occasionally
• Interact well with other dogs and people and not be fearful or aggressive