Suitable for all dogs who have completed Brilliant Dogs (Intermediate Obedience).
Info
This is the polished class, when you are here you can start doing dog sports with confidence. We further you and your dog with more advanced training based on rally obedience and CGC Gold Syllabus. This class you will also do your gold canine good citizen.
What and Why?
When you are at this level you know how fun it is to work with your dog and how rewarding it can be. Advanced obedience helps you polish all your obedience behaviours, it also helps to prepare you for dog sports should you want to pursue it, like obedience, rally obedience and showing. We also give you the opportunity to do your CGC Gold which is the ultimate brag right.
What You Will Learn
Advanced stays, formal send aways, obedience combined heel work, distance control, emergency stop, off-leash recall, and some of the exercises you will find in rally obedience like, front to side sit, shuffle sit, walk and spin and many more.
Add on for CGC
Our regular genius dog course is a six-week course, the add on allows you to do a further 2 weeks with us to also test for Canine Good Citizen Gold. The extra two weeks is not compulsory and comes with an extra fee for the preparation week and the final KUSA test.
What is Canine Good Citizen (CGC)?
This is a program and grading system set up by KUSA where a dog and owner need to be able to perform certain task in order to be rewarded a canine good citizen brag title.
CGC has three levels, Bronze, Silver and Gold. Although not as strict as obedience it is still fundamental thing that all dogs need to be able to do, and this is why we combined the CGC exercises into our obedience classes and give owner and dog the opportunity to have great obedience skills but also life and everyday skills.
In order to enroll for the CGC Gold test you must complete the 6 week Genius Dogs (Advanced Obedience) class first.