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ALBANY OBEDIENCE CLUB
Instructor: Joan Pivorun-Wehrle
Mondays 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Criteria: Handlers/dogs should be running at the Open or Excellent level.
Content: This session will alternate between drills focusing on specific skill improvement on one week with run thrus on the following week. Participants will have the opportunity to suggest the specific skills on which they wish to focus.
Limited to one dog per handler unless class does not fill. Registration of a second dog requires instructor permission.
Limit: 10
Instructor: Spencer Wohlers
Mondays 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Criteria: Class is open to any dog who either has earned a Rally Excellent title or who has been in the Advanced /Excellent Run through classes and are proficient with Excellent level exercises.
Content: This class is a Rally Master Run Through class. Emphasis will be placed on becoming familiar with the signs for the Master level. There will be a different course each week to practice Rally Master Level Rally skills and guidance will be available.
Limit: 8 working teams; quiet auditors are welcome
Instructors: Marjorie Johnson & Joan Healey
Mondays 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Criteria: have taken the Rally Novice Class or be evaluated by the instructor, and are familiar with the Rally signs.
Content: This is a RUN THRU class. Practice Rally courses for Advanced and Excellent will be set up. Each team will have a chance to walk and practice the course.
Instructors: Lauren Bachner & Angie Proper
Mondays 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Criteria: Great for beginning dogs and advanced dogs. We teach basic dog training skills and also conduct run-thrus.
Content: Rally is designed to be a fun approach to Dog Training. This is a dual purpose class, depending on your needs. For some, it’s an introduction to Novice Rally and for others it’s simply a run-thru class. The instructors are very experienced dog trainers and competitors, in many venues. The instructors will explain how Rally works and encourage handlers to use positive training techniques to navigate through beginner rally courses. We want to see happy dogs and rally novice is an awesome tool to help your pup learn some of the basics for Rally, Agility, Obedience and general competition
The class is suitable for youth handlers.
Limit: 12
Instructors: John O’Hanlon & Lauren Bachner
Mondays 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Criteria: Dogs of any age are welcome
Content: Dogs will learn to come when called, walk nicely with their person, sit, down, stay and “go place”.
Instructors: Joan McMaster & Peter Shawhan
Tuesdays 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Criteria: Introduction and continued training in Handler Discrimination. Dogs & handlers should be used to working as a beginner team in Scent Work.
Content: Introduction to HD, introduction to HD for Novice (boxes) exercises, and Advanced (Interior) exercises depending on class. Excellent and Master level practice exercises will be held time and student level permitting.
Junior handlers welcome
Limit: 6
Coordinators: Dave De Noble & Jeanette O’Hanlon
Tuesdays 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Teams will be responsible for setting hides in search areas. Search levels may be Advanced, Excellent, or Master. There may be an unknown number of hides as well as blank search areas. Participants must be able to set hides in all four elements per AKC SW Rules.
One dog per handler.
Limit: 8
Instructors: Lauri Jenkins & Elaine Humphrey
Tuesdays 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Criteria: Basic obedience and foundations/beginning agility
Content: The 2x2 class will be drills focused on independent entries and working towards straight-up performance on 6 poles. No luring allowed. We will used jumps, table and tunnel.
All students to bring their own crate and crate in kitchen. All dogs should be crate trained. Dogs can be crated in car.
Tuesdays 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm
Criteria: Ability to consistently do straight-up weaves.
Content: Weave pole proficiency drills. All dogs will work will straight-up weaves. We will be working difficult and varied entries with short sequences with jumps and tunnels. Objectives will be to build confidence to achieve independence in weave performance. We will add distractions as appropriate per team.
All students to bring their own crate and crate in kitchen. All dogs should be crate trained. Crating can also be from car.
Instructor: Mary Hofelich
Wednesdays 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Criteria: Dogs should be working at open/excellent level.
Content: We will be doing advanced exercises taken from the Clean Run sourcebooks. Different skills will be worked on.
Juniors welcome
Instructor: Deb Janssen
Wednesdays 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Criteria: Dogs must be able to perform all of the obstacles, including 12 weaves.
Content: In this class, you will learn how to best handle your dog through open/excellent levels courses. We will alternate weeks with standard courses and jumper courses.
One dog per handler, unless class doesn’t fill
Instructor: Alex Bradley
Wednesdays 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Criteria: For dogs who are currently competing at the open level and ready to move to Masters or are in Masters level. Must be able to safely complete all contacts at full height and 12 straight weave poles.
Content: Each class will be comprised of sequences designed to sharpen handling skills and build teamwork. Class will focus on Masters and Premier class Challenges.
One dog per handler unless the class does not fill
Limit: 7
Instructors: Caroline Becker & Jessica Dennis
Thursdays 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Criteria: dogs should know sit & down, have a short recall and have basics of stay.
Content: This class is for teams who are preparing to compete in novice obedience. We will be concentrating on the exercises required for Novice, Beginner Novice and Preferred Novice (heeling, figure 8's, stays, recalls,sit/stand for exam, etc.).
Students must bring a crate to class since dogs will need to be crated when not actively working.
One dog per handler for this class
Thursdays 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Criteria: Dog should know sit & down and walk on a loose leash.
Content: For those teams not quite ready to show in obedience but are beyond basic/beginner training. Each week we will fully break down the exercises required for Novice, Beginner Novice and Preferred Novice. While working on the exercises we will also focus on the rules for each class/exercise. Ring & trial etiquette will be covered as well. Students must bring a crate to class since dogs will need to be crated when not actively working.
Limit: 10, one dog per handler for this class
Instructors: Mel Witkowski, Rosemary Redick, & Caroline Becker
Thursdays 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Criteria: Dogs of any age or breed are welcome, Pups to Seniors.
Content: No experience needed. Nose Work/Scent Work helps to build confidence and burns mental and physical energy in your dog. This class is aimed at teaching techniques so your dog can have fun searching at home. It can also lead to competing with your dog in NW/SW trials.
Please bring lots of small, soft treats. (You will need about 100 per class.) You will be working your dog on a flat collar or harness and at least a 6 foot leash. Dog must be crated during class.
One dog per handler may sign up.
Instructors: Kate Harding & Sue Sample-Brown
Thursdays 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Criteria: This class is open to dog/handler teams that plan to continue past the Novice level in competitive obedience. Teams can be at any level from not-even-close-to-ready-for-Novice through already-trialling-in-Open. The class is not suited for teams already trialling in Utility. Dogs must be at least six months old and have had a foundational class.
Content: The goal is to give you some of the tools you need to work with your dog at home. We will work on developing an animated, engaged routine through games and well-timed rewards. The focus will be on heeling, developing a solid retrieve, jumping, and position changes.
Equipment: Dogs must wear a properly fitted flat collar, prong collar or fur saver. Handlers should have a 3-4 foot leash, a long line, water, delicious treats, a favorite toy and a hungry dog. Handlers wishing to work on retrieves must have a dumbbell or dowel.
Dogs must be able to rest quietly in a crate, or hang out in the car.
Limit: 8, one dog per handler.
Instructor: Lois Fricke
Thursdays 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Criteria: Novice dogs welcome - dogs must be able to do all contact equipment safely.
Content: Class will alternate between AKC Open Jumpers and AKC Open Standard courses. This is not a teaching class. Handling advice will be given when necessary.
Junior handlers welcome.
Limit: 10 with one dog per handler unless you are alternating dogs each run.
Instructors: Kathy Mertz & JoAnne Mortimer
Fridays 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Criteria: Completion of a foundational scentwork class OR have the dog’s level of training evaluated by the instructor prior to registration.
Content: Class content is not necessarily based on any particular scent work organization and consists of container, interior, exterior, vehicle and buried searches, skill building activities, and scent work games. Birch, anise and clove scents will be used in searches and searches will be of varying levels of difficulty.
If the class limit is not reached a handler may register a second dog.
Fridays 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Coordinators: Jeanette O’Hanlon and Lauren Bachner
Fridays 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Criteria: Dog and handler teams must be proficient in Birch odor and ready to learn about trialing in Scent Work at the Novice Level. This class is for dog and handler teams who are close to trialing or are trialing at the Scent Work Novice Level.
Content: Class will cover start line behavior, focused searches, identifying and working with COB - change of behavior. Each week the teams will run searches in all four elements, closely reproducing trial conditions. Searches will be blind. Each search area will have a judge, timer, gate steward and spectators.
One dog and handler.
Instructors: Nicole Hoddick & Sharon Breisch
Saturday 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Content: This class session will focus on skills needed for beginner novice and novice obedience competition and rally novice and rally intermediate competition.
Instructor: Laurie Danaher
Sundays 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
4 weeks (4/21, 4/28, 5/5 and 5/12)
Content: This class is the second in a three-part series, permission of the instructor required for those teams who have not successfully completed Pre-Novice Agility Skills 1.
The goal is to prepare green agility handling teams to compete at the novice level. Each class will revolve around learning to complete a selected novice level standard or jumpers agility course, adjusting runs individually to accommodate the dogs’ age and the teams’ abilities. Class content will include advice on entering trials, learning the best way to walk a course, and other beginner basics for handlers new to the sport or with an interest in learning more.
Criteria: Dogs must be 15 months of age. Dogs must have begun to learn all contact obstacles and weaves, but do not need to be proficient.
This is a skills building class meant to bridge the gap between introduction to the obstacles and being competition ready - this is not an introduction class.
Bring a variety of treats - lots of small soft treats and some light-colored treats that show up well on the mats (charley bears, cheese balls, etc).
Dogs must be able to rest (reasonably) quietly in the training room crates or alternatively in the kitchen or in your car. Given the limited number of club crates, please be prepared to bring your own crate.
One dog per handler unless class does not fill.
Sundays 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Criteria: Dogs must be at least 12 months of age.
Content: This class will build on skills learned in Intro to Agility Obstacles 1. Permission of instructor required for those who have not completed part 1.
This class will assume that dogs have begun to understand stopped or running contact work, and that they are ready to begin learning to execute the contact obstacles. We will expand tunnel work drills and continue to work on building skills for 2x2 weaves. Age-appropriate jump work will begin.
Bring a variety of treats - lots of small soft treats and some light-colored treats that show up well on the mats (charley bears, cheese balls, etc). Dogs must be able to rest (reasonably) quietly in the training room crates or alternatively in the kitchen or in your car. Given the limited number of club crates, please be prepared to bring your own crate.
Albany Obedience Club, Inc
535 Wemple Road
Glenmont, NY 12077
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