Are you interested in playing games with your dog?  Perhaps competing in one of the many dog sports that are available?  Maybe just looking for something to do with your dog for fun or exercise?  Let’s Speak Dog Training and Sports Studio offers a variety of options to keep you and your pal busy!  We offer discounts for returning students, club packages as well as reasonably price workshops, seminars, and events for every dog enthusiast! 

Rally Obedience

Rally Obedience:  Rally O is a fast moving, fun way to really build team work between dogs and their people.  Trials are now offered in a variety of venues including APDT, AKC, ASCA and UKC.  The friendly obedience sport is actively enjoyed by any age competitor and APDT offers veteran’s classes with modified exercises for older dogs.  The courses are always different - keeping dog and handler on their toes!  Interested?  Come in and join us for and Intro class.  Currently working in Rally and looking for advanced handler/dog skills or looking to improve your performance?  Join us for an advanced class!  Classes run 6 weeks for an hour a week.  CURRENT SCHEDULE

Competition Obedience Classes: 

CDSP: Companion Dog Sports Program:  Developed by St. Hubert’s, the CDSP program offers titling in 3 levels of competition obedience:  Novice, Open, Utility.  The exercises are similar to AKC Obedience Exercises with a different twist, they focus on the teamwork and allow reward between exercises.  A great way to practice skills while be able to reinforce, CDSP is a venue that is quickly becoming an obedience exhibitor favorite. 

AKC Obedience: The traditional obedience venue, AKC offers numerous classes to trial in obedience.  The expanded titles include Beginner Novice, Novice, Graduate Novice, Open, Graduate Open, Utility, Versatility.  A more formal structure, AKC trails are challenging and the skills designed to bring teams from precise close work to precise distance work. 

Obedience Classes Offered:

Foundations:  Footwork, heel, front, finish, “go”, target sends, working body motion, hands are relevant, speeds, stay/wait

Novice:  Learning the dance of heeling, flying recalls, turns, stays and stand/sit exams, dumbell games

Open:  Teaching the retrieve, jumping introduction and form, ultimate drops, targets-how and whys, using the nose

Utility:  Retrieving, understanding marks, sends, directional jumping, scentwork, signals

Scentwork:  Tracking and Nosework

Tracking:  Learning to follow human scent by following ground tracks.  This is taught outdoors in fields with light (up to knee high) cover.  classes TBA

K9 Nosework:  A relatively new sport that involves hunting and finding scent.  All dogs love to hunt and find scent-K9 Nosework utilizes this basic instinct with a sport all about the “Find”.  Starting with food, we move thru more difficult obstacles and harder “hides”.  The sport works three levels of odors:  birch, anise and clove and 4 areas of search-box search, interior search, exterior building search, auto search.  A great outlet for any dog.  Each dog works individually, so reactive dogs are welcome in this group.  This sport is growing in the northeast and we expect local trials within the year.  Even without trials, this is a great confidence builder, fun for the dog and as it is a “NO Obedience” zone, any dog can do it!  Current classes include:

Intro to Nosework     Intro to Odor    On the Road    Advanced Nosework

Treibball:  “Push Ball”  or Dog Soccer

Straight from Germany, this fast paced urban for of herding balls is quickly becoming the next hot dog sport.  Good for dogs who have basic or advanced skills, this sport works on distance control, impulse control and distance teamwork.  It is a fun to teach as it is to play!  The game involves the dog going out around 3-8 large balls and pushing them into a soccer net 1 at a time as fast as possible.  Control skills and team work are important as the handler must stay within 10-15 of the goal-sound like a challenge?  Come out and try it today!!!!

Treibball Skills Prep        Treibball: Balls and Drills    Treibball Games

Agility:  For Fun or Competition

Agility is the “sport” of choice for lots of dogs and owners.  Fast, fun and interesting, Agility offers a variety of different titling options from Jumpers w/ Weaves, to Snooker the games are varied and the options are endless-there is even a non-jump class called Hoops!  Beginner Series, Advanced and Masters levels all taught by Outlaw Agility at our Studio.  FMI  contact Cheryl Weeks at crbweeks@aol.com.  To learn more about Cheryl or Jean: 

    QUESTIONS?  CALL (610) 570-8720 or email info@letsspeakdog.com