I am a dog trainer. I train dog in basic obedience.?

Question

Im i need of some help from other trainers. I need more ideas of things to do with my group classes? I run 2 one hour groups sessions with any where from 10 to 25 people and dogs. All these dogs have learned basic obedience, while staying with me for 2 weeks. I know work them on a 30 ft leash and a tab leash. Any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

I am also a Obedience Instructor. I work basic obedience with my students, sit stay, down stay, heel, leave it, and come when called. When the dogs can complete these basic commands we use hand signals along with voice and then just hand commands. When they are really good with their hand commands, I start with drop on recall. When the dog is in a stay at a distance, the dog is called and as it is coming to you the command down is given with the hand signal. This command can save your dogs life. The dog drops to the ground before it reaches you as if a car was coming and you stopped the dog before he ran out in front of the car. I used this command on one of my own dogs and stopped him from coming out in front of a pickup truck. I heel my students and throw food on the ground, this is the leave it command. We also play games that proves how good your dog's heeling is.
Set up some pile ons and have the owners hold the leash in their left hand. In the left hand also is a plastic spoon with a tennis ball balanced on the end of the spoon. The owners have to heel their dogs through the pile ons using only their voice and left hand to guide their dogs. The one that can make it down and back without dropping the tennis ball is the winner. The spoon has to be held at the very end of the handle.
There are all kinds of fun things you can do with trained dogs. Simon Says is another good game. Simon Says "down", Simon Says "sit" etc. etc.
Have fun with your class and both the humans and dogs will enjoy it.

Answer 2

That's pretty vague. Without knowing exaclty what your curriculum is it's hard to give suggestions.

I'm guessing you are looking for intermediate level work. In our interm. class we continue working on stays with greater distractions at greater distances and for longer periods of time. We teach a drop on recall. We use light leashes for some exercises to transition to off-leash training. We work on more precise heeling, and eye contact while heeling.

Answer 3

My trainer used to do an 8 week session where the first week was no dogs, then 6 weeks of class, and the 8th week was the CGC test. The excercises we did for the 6 weeks taught us what to know for the CGC. It's a great way to have graduation...

Answer 4

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