Rally Obedience

Teamwork, focus, communication, and FUN! Rally Obedience takes your dog's training to a whole new level through an exciting course of obedience challenges designed to strengthen your connection, improve responsiveness, and build confidence as a team!

Rally combines traditional obedience skills with fun, interactive challenges that encourage you and your dog to work together. You'll navigate a course of numbered signs, each directing you to perform a different obedience exercise. From heeling patterns and turns to sits, downs, stays, and more, Rally puts your dog's skills to work in a whole new way!

Whether you're looking for a fun new activity to enjoy with your dog, hoping to polish your obedience skills, or interested in exploring Rally as a competitive sport, this class is a stellar place to start!

Age Recommendations: 9 months and older

Prerequisite: Beyond Basics or equivalent obedience training

What Will You Learn?

Our Rally Obedience class introduces you and your dog to the fundamentals of Rally while building on the obedience skills you've already established.

This class covers:

• Introduction to Rally Obedience: Learn how Rally works, understand course signs, and practice navigating a course with your dog.

• Heeling & Leash Manners: Improve your dog's ability to walk attentively alongside you through turns, changes in pace, and directional challenges.

• Focus & Engagement: Teach your dog to stay connected with you, even when other dogs, people, and exciting distractions are nearby.

• Obedience Skills: Strengthen familiar cues such as sit, down, stay, and heel while introducing new exercises and combinations.

• Handling & Communication: Develop clearer communication, better timing, and more effective body language to guide your dog through exercises.

• Impulse Control: Help your dog learn to think before acting, maintain focus, and respond thoughtfully rather than impulsively.

• Rally Course Practice: Put your skills together by navigating Rally courses that challenge both you and your dog in a fun, supportive environment.

Class Specifics

Cost: $195

Class Duration: 1 hour per week

What's Included? Weekly in-person classes, online membership access, weekly training materials with step-by-step instructions to practice at home, corresponding instructional videos, and downloadable training handouts with helpful tips and guidance.

Classes are held at our indoor, heated and air-conditioned training facility in Berthoud, Colorado.

K9 Wisdom Training & Consulting

1075 1st Street

Berthoud, Colorado 80513

Why Rally Obedience?

Rally Obedience is so much more than teaching your dog to follow a series of signs. It's an opportunity to develop stronger communication, build confidence, and discover just how much fun training can be when you and your dog are working together!

Rally is an excellent activity for dogs of varying ages, breeds, and personalities. It provides mental stimulation, improves everyday obedience, and gives dogs and their humans a shared activity they can continue enjoying for years to come.

Key Benefits

1. Stronger Communication & Teamwork

• Learn how to guide your dog through increasingly complex obedience exercises using clear cues, body language, and positive reinforcement.

• Improve your dog's ability to pay attention and respond to you while moving through a course.

• Develop a stronger working relationship built on cooperation and trust.

2. Improved Focus & Engagement

• Teach your dog to remain attentive while working around other dogs, people, and environmental distractions.

• Strengthen your dog's ability to respond to familiar cues in new and exciting situations.

• Build engagement skills that carry over into everyday walks, outings, and adventures.

3. Polished Obedience & Leash Manners

• Take basic obedience skills to the next level by incorporating turns, directional changes, different paces, and combinations of behaviors.

• Improve your dog's heeling position, responsiveness, and ability to move comfortably alongside you.

• Reinforce familiar behaviors while introducing fun new challenges.

4. Mental Stimulation & Problem-Solving

• Challenge your dog's mind through a variety of exercises that require concentration, coordination, and thoughtful responses.

• Keep training interesting by introducing new skills and course patterns.

• Provide a productive outlet for dogs who enjoy having a job to do!

5. Confidence Building

• Help your dog become more comfortable working through new challenges in a supportive training environment.

• Encourage independent thinking while strengthening their willingness to work with you.

• Celebrate small successes that help build confidence in both ends of the leash!

6. A Stronger Human-Canine Bond

• Rally encourages teamwork rather than simply asking your dog to perform individual behaviors.

• Working through challenges together strengthens communication, trust, and cooperation.

• Discover a fun new way to connect with your dog beyond everyday obedience training.

7. A Foundation for Future Rally Adventures

• Learn the skills needed to continue progressing through more challenging Rally exercises and courses.

• Build a foundation for those interested in exploring AKC Rally competitions or titles.

• Enjoy an activity that can continue challenging you and your dog as your skills develop.

The Three D's in Rally Training

Just like our other obedience classes, Rally incorporates the three D's—duration, distance, and distraction—to strengthen your dog's understanding of familiar behaviors.

• Duration: Build your dog's ability to maintain positions, focus, and engagement for longer periods while completing exercises.

• Distance: Develop precision and responsiveness as you work through exercises involving positioning, movement, and varying distances.

• Distraction: Help your dog stay connected and responsive while navigating courses around other dogs, people, and exciting environmental distractions.

By gradually introducing these challenges, your dog learns to perform familiar behaviors more reliably while developing new skills along the way.

Training Tips for Rally Success

• Practice Short & Sweet: A few minutes of focused training can be more productive than one long session.

• Reward Engagement: Reinforce your dog for checking in, maintaining focus, and choosing to work with you.

• Build Skills Individually: Practice individual exercises before putting them together into a complete Rally course.

• Keep It Positive: Use encouragement, rewards, and plenty of enthusiasm to make learni