PLATINUM COURSE
This obedience course is for the real enthusiast, taking your skills to the highest level, with distance control and off lead obedience and agility.
Training to the Highest Standards
At a glance
- Who it’s for
- Gold graduates, or dogs already at that level
- Course length
- 6-week course, 1 hour a week
- Next course starts
- Runs when enough people want to take it. Get in touch to register your interest
- Where
- Outdoors at the Training Grounds; indoors at Llys Nini when it is wet.
- A1K9 Training Grounds, Pontarddulais
- Llys Nini Animal Centre (RSPCA), Penllergaer
- Class size
- About ten dogs, never more than twelve. You can join up to week two.
- Bring
- A collar, a lead and treats your dog likes. Gaynor sells quality training leads and collars in class.
For insurance reasons XL Bully dogs, and dogs legally required to be muzzled, cannot join a class.
Congratulations, you have passed your Gold test.
In this course Gaynor will teach you how to get your dog to do the following disciplines:
Change of pace advanced.
Heelwork and change of pace are practised while weaving between other people and their dogs.
Through a Door
Going through a door in a controlled manner is now practised off lead.
Stop and drop
Gaynor will show you how to get your dog to stop and drop. It is also known as the emergency down. If ever you think your dog is running into trouble, you can use the emergency down.
Out of sight down.
In this class we will practice down stay, sit stay, and stand stay, plus stay while the handler goes out of sight for 4 minutes.
Advanced recall
Recall is also done with maximum distraction.
Advanced recall to heel.
Recall to heel is practised with all the dogs doing this at the same time.
Distance control
Change of position is done from a distance.
Advanced scent work
Gaynor adds more of a challenge to the scent work when she hides the article and then your dog is commanded to find it.
Agility
The agility is done off lead as now you are able to have full control of your dog.
In this course you will have taught your dog off lead control including distance commands.
All sorts of control under lots of different circumstances; this is obedience at the highest level.
As we said at the beginning, a well behaved dog is a joy to live with and when you have completed your courses with Gaynor Probert at A1K9 Behaviour and Training Academy, you can demonstrate that your dog can behave in the home, in public places and in the presence of other dogs in a manner that will reflect credit on you and your dog.
Dogs that have been trained and have good manners are more likely to be accepted in hotels or kennels and can be looked after by others should the need arise.
The dog's life is not curtailed because he does not behave.
Your dog can live a full and happy life, being with you and sharing your life wherever you are.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1: Can we go straight into Silver, Gold or Platinum without the earlier courses?
Yes, if your dog is already at the right obedience level. Gaynor judges that with a conversation, asking what your dog can already do, rather than a formal assessment.
Q2: How do the awards work, what if we don't pass, and where do we pick up after a gap?
Each week you learn something new, and in week six Gaynor reviews everything from the course. Get it all right and you earn that course's rosette; not quite, and you get an "achievement" rosette instead. You can still move up, and pick up the full rosette once you've got it on the next course. Coming back after a gap of months or years, most dogs restart on Bronze, but if you have kept up the training you can start at a higher level.
Ask about Platinum Obedience
Tell Gaynor a little about your dog and she will come back to you with whether this is the right course to start on.
How booking works
- Step 1
Send the enquiry once you have filled in all the details.
- Step 2
Gaynor replies to your email with all the information you will need.
- Step 3
Confirm your place with a deposit.
- Step 4
The balance to be paid on the first week of attending.
Where Platinum Obedience fits
Junior through to Platinum is a step-by-step progression: each course prepares your dog for the next. Puppy Socialisation is a standalone class, so your puppy does not need it before starting Junior.
Platinum is the highest of our group courses. To keep developing, Gaynor works one to one with dogs and owners on whatever they want to take further.