Lesson Plan for Basic Obedience Class

The main aim in this training class includes :-

• To establish the communication channel between dog handler and his / her dog

• To make the dog understand a series of command from the handler

Duration : 10 weeks 

Lesson one : Introduction to Basic Obedience Class

• Objective of training
• Housebreaking Training (toilet training) will be provided on request.
• Be a responsible dog owner and your social responsibilities
• Proper training equipment
• Introduce lead training
• Proper use of collar and leash
• The aim of the lead training is to train your dog to walk at the same pace as you and the your dog should not be pulling or lagging you when you take your dog for a walk.
• Train your dog not to pick up food from the floor
• Train your dog to to rush out of your house when the gate is open. Your dog can only go out them you take them out.
• All in all, the training will help to establish as the leader of the pack.

Lesson two: Introduce Sit on Heeling at normal pace, House Breaking Training

• Once your dog learnt how to heel with the handler, our next objective is to train your dog to sit on healing.  With the heel training, when you begin to walk, your dog will heel along your site and with the sit training, you dog will be trained to sit smartly when you stop. so the next time when you walk your dog, you dog will observe your body language and whenever you stop, your dog will stop and sit automatically.
• Trainer will guide on house breaking training and will provide guide to various methods.
• Revise lead training
• Q & A

Lesson three: Introduce Stand on Heeling at normal pace

• Revision of commands learnt in previous classes.
• With the sit training in previous lesson, your dog will sit when you stop. However, there are many instances that you may not want your dog to sit and in this case, you will need to tell your dog to stand before you stop. This training will train your dog to understand the stand command so that your dog will stop and remain in stand position when you stop.
• Revise Sit exercise
• Q & A

Lesson four: Introduce Down on Heeling at normal pace

• Revision of commands learnt in previous classes.
• This exercise is to train your dog to go to down position during heeling. With this training, your dog will learn to go into down position on command
• Revise Sit and Stand Exercise
• Q & A

Lesson five: Introduce Sit Stay Exercise & train dog to pick up food from the floor

• Revision of commands learnt in previous classes.
• The sit stay exercise is to train your dog to stay in sit position until you return. For the initial training, you will target to train your dog to stay for 30 seconds. With more training on your own, you will be able to extend that time period to much longer period of says 10 minutes or more.
• Revise Sit; Stand and Down Exercise
• Q & A

Lesson six: Introduce Down Stay Exercise and Train Dog not to go out of the gate without your approval

• Revision of commands learnt in previous classes.
• The down stay exercise is to train your dog to stay in down position until you return. The initial training is to train your dog to in stay position for at least 1 minutes.
• Revise lesson five
• Q & A

Lesson seven: Introduce Recall to Present with lead

• Revision of commands learnt in previous classes.
• Revise lesson six without Sit and Down Stay Exercise
• Q & A

Lesson eight: Introduce Recall to Present and Finish with lead

• Revision of commands learnt in previous classes.
• Revise lesson seven heel work without sit and down
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• Q & A

Lesson nine: Introduce Stand Stay for Temperament Test with lead

• Revision of commands learnt in previous classes.
• Revise all exercises required for graduation test
• Q & A

Lesson ten: Graduation Test

• Heel work on preset heeling pattern
• Recall to finish on lead
• Stand Stay on lead
• Sit Stay with lead – one minute
• Down Stay with lead – two minutes

REGISTRATION FOR PRE-NOVICE CLASS