Classes

Training takes place on Saturday mornings from 9 am. The training ground is situated in beautiful, safe surroundings within Warringal parklands in Heidelberg. Melway Reference: 32 D3. Enquiries and visitors are very welcome.

Classes with The Kintala Club are organised into 10 separate levels- Class One to Class Ten.

After completing the Ideal Dogs of Australia course handlers and dogs begin in class one where basic exercises of sit, stand, drop, heeling, stays in all positions, basic retrieving and basic recalls are taught. Exercises at this level may be food induced, although after having completed the IDA course this should not be required. As handlers and dogs progress through the classes, the required exercises become more complex and demand greater precision.

Class four includes a heeling routine including sits, stands, drop from a heeling position, fast and slow pace and all turns, as well as precise retrieving, recall, stand for examination, and group stays with the handlers circling the dogs twice.

More complex exercises of directional jumping, signals and seekback are introduced in the higher classes with class eight level consisting of a heeling routine which includes six sits, three stands, three drops from a heeling position, fast and slow pace with at least one turn and a minimum of ten paces before and after the turn, a seekback over twenty paces with one right angle turn, a stop on recall at twenty paces, signal exercises and hurdles. Individual exercises include directional jumping, scent discrimination, food refusal, retrieve over a high jump and a group stay out of sight for three minutes. Class nine consists of a tracking test.

Class ten requires both a complex routine performed without verbal commands and a tracking exercise.

Phone : Melbourne (03) 9439 8546 after 6 pm

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