Training Class Exercises
Puppy Class
- Praise
- Play
- Socialisation
- Focusing/Watching
- Walking/Heeling (including all turns)
- Sit
- Drop from sit position
- Voice correction
- Stand
- Recall
- Favourite article (preferably soft)
- Controlled feeding
Class 1
- Praise
- Play
- Socialisation
- Focusing/Watching
- Voice correction and discipline
- Control
- Sit
- Heeling (including all turns)
- Stand
- Sit-Stay (30 seconds)
- Stand-Stay (30 seconds)
- Down
- Down-Stay (30 seconds)
- Recall- Stage 1
- Retrieve- Stage 1 introduction
- Controlled feeding
Class 2
- Heeling- including changes in pace
- Automatic sit
- Stays- returning around the dog
- Stand for examination
- Drop on the move
- Sit-Stay (1 minute)
- Down-Stay (1 minute)
- Recall – Stage 2 finishing by guiding dog around handler
- Retrieve- Stage 2
Class 3
- Introduction to heeling off lead under limited conditions
- Left side finish
- Sit-Stay off lead (1 minute)
- Down-Stay off lead (3 minutes)
- Stand-Stay off lead
- Recall- Stage 3 off lead (up to 10 metres)
- Introduction to figure 8
- Finish off lead (without guiding)
- Retrieve- Stage 3 (introduction to dumbell)
Class 4
- Off lead heeling
- Stand for examination
- Stand-Stay off lead
- Recall
- Sit-Stay off lead (1 minute)
- Down-Stay off lead (3 minutes)
