Obedience

Nowadays there are two types of competitive obedience: British obedience and F.C.I. obedience like it is done on the mainland of Europe. Every year at Crufts an international obedience competition is held that seems to be a combination of exercises out of the two divisions. In both divisions the judges will look at motivation & style and precision & accuracy of the executed exercises by handler and dog.

Even if you are not interested in obedience as a competitive sport, it is still really important to teach your dog some basic obedience exercises.  More about training some obedience exercises on our training DVD’s, where “Barking Mad about Dog Dance”, shows in great detail how to teach that beautiful and stylish heelwork as well as how to train some more exceptional tricks.

 And on our second DVD “Barking Mad about Clicker Training” some other obedience exercises are explained (recall, send away, retrieve, the hurdle exercise (F.C.I. obedience) and retrieve over the hurdle (F.C.I. obedience), as well as clicker training in great detail and some dog dance moves.