Rally Obedience Canterbury
Canine Good Basics is a programme for dogs over 4 months of age.
It includes vital skills for pet dogs and beyond and is a great place to start your dog training.
Canine Good Citizen is a nationally recognised programme that is designed to teach your dog excellent manners for everyday life. Both of these programmes have optional assessments.
This is an activity to help improve dogs confidence and coordination.
It involves being able to interact with different obstacles and surfaces.
Obedience is a complex series of tests for the dog and handler requiring precision.
It includes teaching the dog to heel closely beside the handler, recalls, stays, scent and sendaways.
Obedience competitions start with Elementary class and progress from Beginners to Novice, Test A, Test B and Test C. Companion dog Trials are also available at different levels.
We pride ourselves on challenging our members to do the best heelwork they can, whether for RallyO or Obedience and to aim for the skills required for CD trials and more.
Hoopers is a low impact sport requiring the dog to run through hoops and tunnels, and around barrels, following a numbered course.
Obstacles include hoops, barrels and tunnels.
We run qualifying events through the year as well as monthly Hoopers Link courses.
Rally-O is a dog sport that can be enjoyed by dogs and people of all ages and abilities.
Handlers teach their dogs a range of different exercises. They include:- combinations of turns, presents, finishes, changes of position, heeling around cones, halts and sending around poles and over jumps.
In a competition the dog and their handler are required to perform a different exercise every few metres. The exercises are linked together in a numbered course which is scored and timed.
