Class Details

MOTC currently offers three levels of AKC Competition Obedience classes. All three levels are offered twice a week. 

• Novice:  preparing the dog and handler team to attain the Beginner Novice and Companion Dog titles.
• Open:  preparing the dog and handler team to attain the Graduate Novice and Companion Dog Excellent titles.
• Utility:  preparing the dog and handler team to attain the Graduate Open and Utility Dog titles.

When:

     Wednesdays – 9:00am to noon

     Tuesdays – 6:30 to 8:30pm

Requirements:

• 8 week course (1 hour sessions)
• Public $120/ MOTC Members $72 
• Dogs of any age
• Novice classes require successful completion of the  Performance Fundamentals Class or have instructor permission
• Open and Utility classes require that the dog has already earned its CD title

Novice Classes 

• Dog/handler teams will build on their skill in the novice exercises, including heeling off-lead, and learn the techniques needed to attain qualifying scores in AKC trials.
• Practicing in a variety of places is essential to the success of each team. Dogs must be able to work around other dogs, on leash, without signs of aggression, and minimal distractions.
• A flat collar or martingale is recommended for this class. Handlers will want to bring plenty of high-value treats.

Open Classes

• Expands on off-lead heeling and introduces the broad and high jumps and the retrieving exercises.
• Handlers will continue to improve their handling skills.
• Dogs must be able to work around other dogs, on and off leash, without signs of aggression, and among distractions.
• Handlers will want to bring plenty of high-value treats.

Utility Classes

• New exercises introduced in this class are scent discrimination, the directed retrieve, and directed jumping.
• At this training level, dogs work on their own more so than at any previous level. Thus, the class is designed to build the dog’s confidence in working without constant direction.

Class Details

Rally sport is a fun way for you and your dog to work as a team as you maneuver through the course. The course contains ten to twenty rally stations with signs indicating the exercise for you and your dog follow before moving to the next station.

When

Thursdays, TBD

Saturdays, TBD

(all levels welcome)

Requirements:

• 6-week course (1 hour sessions)
• Public $90/Members $54
• Dogs are required to have completed at least one Pet Class and have instructor permission
• The dog should have a fairly consistent heel and good command of sit, down, and stay

Novice Class

• All exercises are judged with the dog on leash
• All courses will consist of 10 – 15 Novice signs, with 3 – 5 of those being stationary signs
• There are no jumps at this level
• This title requires 3 qualifying scores

Intermediate Class (optional title)

• Dogs must have won the Rally Novice (RN) title
• All exercises are judged with the dog on leash
• All courses will consist of 12 – 17 signs, with 3 – 7 stationary signs, and at least 3 Advanced level signs
• There are no jumps at this level
• This title requires 3 qualifying scores

Advanced Class

• Dogs must have won the Rally Novice (RN) title
• All exercises are judged with the dog off leash
• All courses will consist of 12 – 17 signs, with 3 – 7 stationary signs, and at least 3 Advanced level signs
• There is one jump at this level
• This title requires 3 qualifying scores

Excellent Class

• Dogs must have won the Rally Advanced (RA) title
• All exercises are judged with the dog off leash
• All courses will consist of 15 – 20 signs, with 3 – 7 stationary signs, and at least 2 Advanced level signs and 3 Excellent level signs
• The dog is required to jump twice at this level
• This class ends with the dog in a Sit Stay while the handler retrieves the leash
• Handlers are no longer allowed to pat their legs or clap their hands to encourage the dog
• This title requires 3 qualifying scores

Master Class

• Dogs must have won the Rally Excellent (RE) title
• All exercises are judged with the dog off leash
• There are no re-tries in this class
• All courses will consist of 15 – 20 signs, with 3 – 7 stationary signs, and at least 3 Advanced level signs, 3 Excellent level signs, and 4 Master level signs, plus one Master level jump
• The dog is required to jump once at this level
• This title requires 10 qualifying scores

Choice Class (optional title)

• All dogs are eligible to enter this class and may continue to compete indefinitely
• There are no jumps in this class
• All exercises are judged with the dog off leash
• There are no re-tries in this class
• All courses will consist of 15 – 20 signs, with 3 – 7 stationary signs, and at least 3 Advanced level signs, 3 Excellent level signs, and 4 Master level signs
• This title requires 10 qualifying scores

The sport of Scent Work is based on the work of professional detection dogs (such as drug dogs), employed by humans to detect a wide variety of scents and substances. In AKC Scent Work, dogs search for cotton swabs saturated with the essential oils of Birch, Anise, Clove, and Cypress. The cotton swabs are hidden out of sight in a pre-determined search area, and the dog has to find them. Teamwork is necessary: when the dog finds the scent, he/she has to communicate the find to the handler, who calls it out to the judge.” (AKC.org)