Home Companion Training

AKC S.T.A.R. PUPPY - S.T.A.R. stands for Socialization, Training, Activity, Responsibility. Learn to communicate with your puppy and teach him/her some basic skills for happily living in your home and community. More...

CANINE GOOD CITIZEN (CGC) - This class helps you teach your dog basic good manners, both for home and in the community. More...

COMMUNITY CANINE GOOD CITIZEN (CGCA) – CGC advanced skills with more people, dogs, and distractions. More...

URBAN CANINE GOOD CITIZEN (CGCU) – CGC skills on busy streets, using elevators, etc. More...

This class is designed to help develop reliable behaviors on and off leash that will contribute to being a family dog and companion at home and in public.  More

Designed to teach you and your dog basic skills for a family dog, and to prepare both of you for further classes. More

Focus is a class designed to increase your dog’s attention on you through games and rewards to create a team. Basic obedience is required prior to entry into the class or approval by instructor for those who have trained those requirements at home. Focus 2 is more advanced.

There are 3 levels of AKC competition Obedience: Novice, Open, and Utility, which increase in difficulty. Coeur d'Alene Dog Fanciers offers a number of classes to help you earn AKC Obedience titles, or to just continue training your family dog.

Novice: Heeling with and without a leash, coming when called, standing for a simple physical examination, and staying in both a sit and a down position with a group of dogs. After receiving a qualifying score at 3 AKC licensed events, a dog earns a Companion Dog (CD) title and moves on to Open. 

Open: More exercises are done off leash and include retrieving and jumping exercises. After receiving a qualifying score at the Open level in 3 AKC licensed events, a dog earns a Companion Dog Excellent (CDX) title and moves on to Utility.

Utility: Exercises are more challenging. After receiving qualifying scores at the Utility level in 3 AKC licensed events, a dog earns a Utility Dog (UD). From UD, a dog can also earn the additional titles Utility Dog Excellent (UDX), Obedience Master (OM), Grand Master (OGM), Obedience Trial Champion (OTCH). See AKC.org for title requirements. 

Talk to your teacher about what class would be best for you to take.

NOVICE OBEDIENCE - The Novice class is the foundation for future levels of training and participation in Novice Obedience trial competition. More...

OPEN OBEDIENCE - This is a competition obedience class with the intent of working toward showing at the Open level. More...

COMPETITION OBEDIENCE - This class is a combination of Novice and Open Obedience with some proofing to fit the needs of the students.

BEYOND BASICS OBEDIENCE - Work on advanced skills with increasing distractions. More...

UTILITY OBEDIENCE - Utility is the most challenging obedience class. More...

AKC Rally®: You move your dog through a course of numbered signs performing different exercises. Each sign gives instructions which include sit, down, stay, move forward quickly, move slowly, and more complicated maneuvers. 

BEGINNING RALLY enhance basic obedience skills while you learn the basics of Rally exercises. 

Beginning Rally is followed by INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED RALLY. More

Rally-FrEe is a unique sport combining trick behaviors with the format of Rally-Obedience. It emphasizes the precise execution of fundamental freestyle and obedience skills... More

Learn the fundamentals of agility to direct your dog through a course of obstacles including tunnels, weave poles, tire jumps, seesaws, and others. More

Scent Work is patterned after the techniques used to train working detection dogs... More

Handlers will learn positive training methods to teach their dogs a variety of behaviors and tricks... More

Learn handler skills for the AKC Conformation Ring... More