Intermediate Skill Checklist

We recommend you print this list to keep track of what skills you have learned.

Download this resource HERE.

Concepts:

• Reinforce all concepts from Beginner classes

• Increasing difficulty of training exercises

• 3D’s

• Breaking things down

• Motivation and Drive

• Fading lures

• Verbal commands vs. hand signals

Manners Exercises: 

• Greeting people politely

  • Increase energy

  • Increase speed of approach

  • More fluid and natural

• Loose Leash Walking

• Eye contact exercise

  • “Choose Me”

  • Red light, green light

  • Straight line with Yield-to-Me

  • Dog passes

• Blocking with distractions

• Spatial Pressure

Obedience:

• Same commands as Beginner but incorporating the 3D’s (Duration,

  Distance, and Distractions)

  • Sit

  • Down

  • Come

  • Stay/implied stays

  • Place

• Heel

  • Luring along wall

  • Touchpad for positioning

    • Touch

    • Rear-end awareness/front-facing turns

    • Turning in heel position

    • Calling to heel position

• Middle

• Paper Plate Recall

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