Course Descriptions
** Class Updates **
Please keep in mind when filling your dog's dance card for the next three months that not everyone can do two classes a night, two nights per week. Add that to competing on the weekends and you will have a tired dog. I always say tired dogs are good dogs, but don't burn them out. Make sure they have a lot of fun too!
Dogs must have current Rabies to participate (exemptions for dogs under 6 months of age). First come, first served as space allows.
Please contact us to reserve your space in class. Classes must meet minimum registrations or they may be cancelled or combined with other classes.
dracorn@unicornresearch.org or 703-543-7211 for more information.
Puppy Kindergarten
Teach your puppy or adult dog basics (sit, heel, stay, place, leave it, and come), socialize, and learn how to problem solve. Puppies and adult dogs must be 5 months or older and up to date on vaccines. This is a STAR puppy Class.
Deborah Reeves-Andoetoe instructor
$200 for a ten week session
Handling Class
Open to puppies and dogs 11 weeks and older. This is a ten-week session where we need a minimum of five participants. Drop-in style conformation run-throughs with more instruction available to beginning handlers.
Class fee is $130 per handler for a ten week session. No more than three dogs per handler. Crating is available inside the building 15 minutes before class starts.
Drop-in classes are only available to club members. Drop ins are $15 each per handler. Assistance putting away mats after class is appreciated!
Rally
Open to puppies and dogs 6 months and older. Our rally class is not set up to teach obedience skills, rather it is set up to teach the handler how to read and navigate the signs while improving how handler and dog navigate the course as a unit.
$130 for a ten week session.
Scent Work
Open to puppies and dogs 6 months and older. We will start with birch and add other scents. Learn or practice basic containers, indoor hides, high, low, and good signaling practices. This is a run-through style class.
$150 for a ten week session.
Beginning Obedience
Teach your puppy or adult dog basics (sit, heel, stay, place, leave it, and come), socialize, and learn how to problem solve. Puppies and adult dogs must be 5 months or older and up to date on vaccines.
Dogs under one year can earn their S.T.A.R. Puppy and every dog can earn their CGC!
Deborah Reeves-Andoetoe, Instructor
$200 for a ten week session
Advanced Obedience
Open to dogs who have successfully completed a beginning Obedience class somewhere. These dogs will be working closer to other dogs as we have greater expectations of self control and better approximations of the correct behaviors. This class will include games and other training tools to make obedience fun for the dog, the behaviors more precise and accurate all while fading out food and lures.
Dogs can earn their CGCA!
Deborah Reeves-Andoetoe, Instructor
$150 for a ten week session
Drop in sessions are only available to club members. Drop ins at $10 per session.
Convenient Payments
Obedience Class
Basic Obedience, Good Foundations or Puppy Kindergarten, $200 plus convenience fee. Please indicate which in the notes section.
Handling
Reserve your spot for Handling class by paying in advance. $150 plus convenience fee.
Advanced Obedience
This is an old-fashioned class, something that was available long before rally. Dogs and handlers learn to work with distractions, near other dogs, with obedience maneuvers called in real time. $150 plus convenience fee.
CGC Testing
Each test is $20. You may purchase CGC or CGCA testing. You must satisfactorily complete CGC before attempting CGCA, but they may both be attempted on the same night.