Intermediate Obedience

Prerequisite: Requires completion of a Tails Up Beginning Obedience class or prior Tails Up approval for transfer from another program.

Our Intermediate Obedience class further refines the skills taught in Beginning Obedience, working to make your dog increasingly reliable despite higher levels of distraction. We increase the challenge of the Come command by adding distance and more distractions, in addition to teaching your dog to Come over a low jump. We challenge the Heel command by teaching the dog to focus while  heeling very closely to other people and dogs in the Figure 8 exercise. We practice more reliability for the Stay command by adding time, distance, and more distractions. 

Call us at (952)895-6115 or use our contact page to begin registration.  Payment in full guarantees your place in the class. Please review our Policies & Guidelines on the About Us page.

Tricks Class

Prerequisite: Dogs must have completed at least a Puppy Kindergarten or Beginning Obedience class before registering for the Tricks class.

Your dog can be the star of the show and the center of the party after learning some fun tricks!  We'll teach you how to teach your dog 8-12 tricks (for example, shake, roll-over, peek-a-boo, beg) and will also help you with any special ideas you may have! The last week of the class will include a certification test for the American Kennel Club Novice Trick Dog (TKN) title.  

Call us at (952)895-6115 or use our contact page to begin registration.  Payment in full guarantees your place in the class. Please review our Policies & Guidelines on the About Us page.

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Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Preparatory Class

Prerequisite: Requires completion of a Tails Up Intermediate Obedience class or prior Tails Up approval for transfer from another program.

This two-week class will prepare you and your dog to take the AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) certification test.  The class will meet for two weeks, with the test on the third week.  

Call us at (952)895-6115 or use our contact page to begin registration.  Payment in full guarantees your place in the class. Please review our Policies & Guidelines on the About Us page.

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Therapy Dog Certification

Prerequisite: Due to high demand, registration is limited to current Tails Up students whose dogs already have their AKC Canine Good Citizen certification.

This two-week class prepares dogs and handlers to take a certification test to become an offical Therapy Dog through the Pet Partners organization. The class will meet for two weeks, with the test on the third week. We offer this class on a limited quarterly basis, and it is limited to just 5 students per class to allow for the maximum in personal attention. 

Call us at (952)895-6115 or use our contact page to be added to our notifcation list for this class.  Please review our Policies & Guidelines on the About Us page.

Rally Obedience

Prerequisite: Tails Up Intermediate Obedience, or prior approval.

Rally is a sport in which the dog and handler proceed at their own pace through a course of designated stations where the team performs a simple to advanced obedience exercise, depending on level. Each of these stations has a sign providing instructions regarding the next skill that is to be performed.  Scoring is not as rigorous as traditional obedience. For more information, see the AKC page on Rally Obedience. 

Call us at (952)895-6115 or use our contact page to begin registration.  Payment in full guarantees your place in the class. Please review our Policies & Guidelines on the About Us page.

Novice Obedience

Prerequisite: Tails Up Intermediate Obedience class, or prior approval.

This class continues the obedience training started in Intermediate Obedience, focusing on increased attention, reliability, and responsiveness of the dog. Furthermore, this class prepares and polishes dogs and handlers for an AKC Companion Dog (CD) title for those who wish to pursue that venue. Ongoing schedule.

Competition Novice Obedience

Prerequisite: Tails Up Novice Obedience class, or prior approval.

This class provides fine-tuning for those dogs and handlers are preparing to compete for their AKC Companion Dog (CD) title. Instructor permission required. Ongoing schedule.

Open Obedience

Prerequisite: Tails Up Novice Obedience class, AKC CD title, or prior approval.

This class covers the open exercises including retrieving, jumping and out-of-sight stays to prepare dog and handler for their Companion Dog Excellent (CDX) title. Ongoing schedule.

Utility Obedience

Prerequisite: Tails Up Open Obedience class, AKC CDX title, or prior approval.

This class covers the most advanced obedience exercises including hand signals, scent articles, directed retrieving, moving stand and directed jumping. This prepares dogs and handlers for their Utility Dog (UD) title. On-going schedule.
 

Obedience Run-Throughs 

Ongoing schedule, we will have one ring available for competition obedience run-throughs. Lots of distractions available; Beginning Obedience & Puppy Kindergarten classes going on in adjacent rings.

Conformation Run-Throughs

Ongoing schedule, drop-in class.