UPPER HUTT DOG TRAINING CLUB
Our classes
We offer the following classes
Monday:
Dog Manners 6pm Canine Good Citizen 6pm
Rally O, Beginners and Competitive, 7pm
Tuesday:
Kids Class 4:45
Competitive Obedience 6pm
Canine Good Basics 7pm
Wednesday: Agility,
Intermediate/Senior 6:30pm, Foundation/ Beginners 6:30
Starters/Novice 7:30
Thursday:
Flygility 6pm
Scentwork Beginners 6:30
Competitive 7:30
​​You need to pass Canine Good Basics before enrolling in any other classes.

Our Canine Good Basics programme is for young dogs and puppies over 4 months of age.
It is a sensible programme that improves your dogs ability to respond to basic commands.
These popular five-week courses are run throughout the year and teach the basics of good behaviour.
Canine Good Citizen is a nationally recognised programme that is designed to teach your dog excellent manners for everyday life. Both of these programmes have optional assessments.
Obedience is a complex series of tests for the dog and handler requiring precision.
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It includes teaching the dog to heel closely beside the handler, recalls, stays, scent and sendaways.
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Obedience competitions start with Elementary class and progress from Beginners to Novice, Test A, Test B and test C.
​Companion dog Trials are also available at different levels.​


Agility is an active sport for dogs and handlers. It involves teaching your dog to traverse a variety of obstacles and learning a range of handling moves to get successfully around a course.
We offer:-
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Foundation,
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Beginners, and
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Competitive agility classes
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Classes are held on Wednesday evening.
Rally-O is a dog sport that can be enjoyed by dogs and people of all ages and abilities.
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Handlers teach their dogs a range of different exercises. They include:- combinations of turns, presents, finishes, changes of position, heeling around cones, halts and sending around poles and over jumps.
In a competition the dog and their handler are required to perform a different exercise every few metres. The exercises are linked together in a numbered course which is scored and timed.

Flygility involves a tennis ball, a variety of agility-type obstacles and is suitable for less mobile handlers.
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In a Flygility competition dogs race each other over obstacles to retrieve a tennis ball before returning to the handler with the ball. The fastest dog to return with the ball wins