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06-17-2010, 03:22 PM | #1 |
YT 1000 Club Member | AKC Obedience What is AKC Obedience? •Demonstrating the usefulness of a dog as a companion to humankind, AKC Obedience is a sport with rules, regulations, judges, conditioning, training, placements and prizes. •Dog and handler teams are judged on how closely they match the judge's mental picture of a theoretically perfect performance as they execute a series of specified exercises. •Accuracy and precision are essential, but the natural movement of the handler and the willingness and enjoyment of the dog are very important. •Helen Whitehouse Walker devised the first obedience "test" in Mt. Kisco, New York in 1933 to show the intelligence of her poodles. •The first AKC licensed obedience trial was held in 1936. 200 dogs were entered in 18 trials in that inaugural year. •Each level of obedience competition - novice, open, and utility - requires mastering a specific skill set, which increase in difficulty, before advancing to the next level. •The Novice Class demonstrates good canine companion skills such as heeling, both with and without a leash, coming when called, standing for a simple physical examination, and staying in both a sit and a down position with a group of dogs. •In the Novice Class, dogs earn an AKC Companion Dog (CD) title after receiving a qualifying score under three different judges. •The Open Class is more challenging as more exercises are done off leash and retrieving and jumping challenges are added. •In the Open Class, dogs earn an AKC Companion Dog Excellent (CDX) title after receiving a qualifying score under three different judges. •The Utility Class, includes scent discrimination, directed retrieves, jumping and silent signal exercises, is the most challenging class. •In the Utility Class, dogs earn an AKC Utility Dog (UD) title after receiving qualifying scores from three different judges. •Upon completion of the UD title, dogs may earn the Utility Dog Excellent (UDX) when they receive qualifying scores in both Open B and Utility B at 10 separate trials. •The Obedience Trial Championship (OTCH) title is often referred to as the "PhD" for dogs, is the highest obedience honor a dog can receive. •To obtain an OTCH title, a dog and handler team must earn 100 points by placing first, second, third or fourth in the Open B or Utility B class. Three first places must also be awarded from the Open B and Utility B classes. •A Shetland Sheepdog “Jo’s Xpensif Hobi O’Redfield” holds the most OTCH points earned over a lifetime with 16,711 points! •To receive an invitation to the AKC National Obedience Invitational dogs must be the top OTCH and OTCH- pointed dogs in each breed. Dogs may also qualify to receive an invitation by participating in one of the new Regional Obedience Competitions. •The AKC National Obedience Championship title (NOC) is awarded to one dog each year. •Only dogs winning the AKC National Obedience Championship are permitted to have the prestigious NOC letters precede it's name in AKC records. •There are eleven NOCs in the thirteen-year history of this event, two dogs having won the award twice.
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06-17-2010, 03:29 PM | #2 |
YT 1000 Club Member | AKC Agility Dog agility is a dog sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy. Dogs run off-leash with no food or toys as incentives, and the handler can touch neither dog nor obstacles.[1][2][3][4][5] Consequently the handler's controls are limited to voice, movement, and various body signals, requiring exceptional training of the animal and coordination of the handler. In its simplest form, an agility course consists of a set of standard obstacles, laid out by an agility judge in a design of his or her own choosing on a roughly 100 by 100-foot (30 by 30 m) area, with numbers indicating the order in which the dog must complete the obstacles. Courses are complicated enough that a dog could not complete them correctly without human direction. In competition, the handler must assess the course, decide on handling strategies, and direct the dog through the course, with precision and speed equally important. Many strategies exist to compensate for the inherent difference in human and dog speeds and the strengths and weaknesses of the various dogs and handlers.
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