Tuesday Group Obedience Class

     This is a video of my Tuesday evening obedience group. If we have visitors we make sure to take advantage and have the dogs and handlers practice meet and greet with them. We usually start by walking around the room working on obedience exercises as a class.  The room is divided into four squares and as the dogs settle in we eventually work around two then one square.  Perhaps a dog will sit or down in the middle and the rest of the class will circle around and when we stop we all get as close as possible to the dog in the middle.  Sometimes there may be bowls of food also in the middle and maybe a vacuum cleaner or wheel chair or me making some kind of noise or distraction in the middle.  
     We began using the whole room and eventually worked tighter and closer weaving each other and figure eights, etc.  I set up a Rally Obedience course with the exercises we have been practicing and had each handler and dog go through the course individually.  This video is at the end when I had the class members all work on the pattern at the same time.  This is more like a real life senario where everyone has a little something different going on at the same time.