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I want to try obedience.I would like to know tips and pointers to help me in obedience.
Questions
~What breed would you reccomend
~What are the levels
~Other info/tips

Thanks
Selma

Any breed can get their UD in Obedience, but I have had the easiest time with Border Collies... it took my Lagotto Romagnolo ages to get sessioned up enough. BC's go pretty quick.

For the CD you need to session the whole top line; HOL, Figure Eight, Heel Free, Recall, Long Sit and Long Down.

For the CDX you need to session all of the second row, except for the last one; so do Drop on Recall, Ret on Flat, Ret over High Jump, Broad Jump and Signal Exer.

For the UD you need to session the remaining options; Scent Descrimination, Directed Retriever, Mov Stand for Exam and Directed Jumping.

I dont have any of the BC's I worked in Obedience, but for my Lagotti I had 20's in all for the CD. One 20 and the rest 19's for his CDX. And for his UD I had 19, 18, 9 and 8... I'm not sure why his last two were so low, but he received his UD with them at that number.

As for how the obedience scoring works in the game, I really dont have a clue. Seems to be as long as the dog is sessioned he will eventually get his UD. Nothing much to it. Just session and enter. *shrug* Maybe Im missing something? lol

Pembroke Welsh Corgis session up as fast as BC's in show obed, GSDs another good breed. Takes them all 6 sessions to get from 19 to 20 in show obedience which you need for the Stand for Exam.

The Show Obedience is the only number on the top line that you need to session for obedience. Condition, grooming, muscle aren't important. Sylence listed the others for the various levels already.

Probably a good number of the herding breeds would be good as they're all smart and bred to be trainable. Other breeds like terriers, toys, hounds, would take a long time and many many many sessions.

And yes, Sylence is correct. Pretty much if you session them up you get the title. Might be one NQ at first "dog was unsure" just because it was in it's 1st show.

Thanks so much you guys!
Selma

I have had luck with BC's, Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds, Brittanies, Flat-Coated Retrievers, and Shetland Sheepdogs.