Dog training club offers something new this term

Birch Acres Dog Training Club is offering something new this term, rally fun at novice level.

Rally fun is a form of training based on Rally-O (rally obedience) and rally free (rally freestyle), which is becoming very popular worldwide.

Unlike regular obedience, instead of waiting for the trainer’s orders, the competitors proceed around a course of designated stations with the dog in heel position.

The course consists of 10 to 20 signs that instruct the team what to do.

Unlike traditional obedience, handlers are allowed to encourage their dogs during the course.

The club’s new intake and registration day is on January 18 at the club at the intersection of Mooirivier and James Wright avenues (opposite McDonald’s Norkem Park).

Birch Acres Dog Training Club, a non-profit canine training facility, will train you to train your dog and caters for all your training requirements.

They make dog training fun and enjoyable and improve the relationship between you and your canine companion.

The registration times are: 10am puppies (eight weeks and younger than five months); 12.30pm bridging 1 and 2, beginners and scholars; 2.30pm all other classes and country members.

Country membership is for owners who wish to exercise and run their dogs within a secure environment during non-training times.

The club offers the following training:

• Puppy socialising – Saturday afternoons

• Obedience training – Saturday afternoons

• Scholars class (handlers between the ages of eight-15) – Saturday afternoons

• Agility – Thursday evenings

• Carting – Saturday afternoons

• Companion dog – Wednesday evenings

• Flyball – Saturday afternoons for beginner dogs and Monday evenings for advanced dogs

• Protection work – Saturday afternoons

• Sniffer Dog – Saturday afternoons

• Trick class – Saturday afternoons

• Tracking – Saturday mornings

Your dog must have been vaccinated (five-in-one as well as rabies) within the past 12 months to register.

For more information, visit www.badtc.com or send an e-mail to info@badtc.com