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CKC Canine Good Neighbor Program
CKC Working Certificate
Obedience Trials
Rally
Field Trials
Water Trials
Agility Trials
Dock Diving
Service Dog
Tracking
CKC Canine Good Neighbour Program
Objective
- To identify and reward responsible, caring owners and their canine partners throughout Canada.
- To ensure that one of our most favoured companions, the dog, is accepted as a valued member of our communities right across the country. Canine Good Neighbours can be counted on to present good manners at home, in public places and in the presence of other dogs.
The test is non-competitive and allows dog and handler to demonstrate confidence and control in 12 steps. It assesses the handler and dog’s relationship, together with the handler’s ability to control the dog. Dogs are evaluated on their ability to perform basic exercises as well as their ability to demonstrate good manners in everyday situations.
The training program embraces both purebred and mixed-breed dogs and is fun, rewarding, and useful. It encourages owners to have a better and richer relationship with their dogs. The program also enhances community awareness of responsible dog ownership and the numerous benefits associated with dog ownership.
The Canadian Kennel Club encourages all dog owners to participate in the program, ensuring that our beloved canines are welcome and respected members of our communities.
Working Certificate Test
The primary objective of the WC, WCI and WCX tests is to encourage the development and use of those natural abilities for which retrievers were originally bred. The tests provide a means to help determine future breeding stock, encourage retriever owners to develop their dogs’ natural abilities, and to have retrievers become more proficient as hunting partners. The tests are non-competitive and those dogs that pass the tests to the satisfaction of the judges will be recorded as having basic work ability.
Obedience Trials
The basic objective of obedience trials is to produce dogs that have been trained to behave in the home, in public places, and in
the presence of other dogs, in a manner that reflects credit on the sport of obedience. Obedience training ranges from very basic training, such as teaching the dog to reliably respond to basic commands such as “sit”, “down”, “come”, and “stay”, to high level of competition, where additional commands, accuracy and performance are scored and judged. In the strictest sense an Obedience trained dog is an obedient dog. Training a dog in obedience can be an ongoing and lengthy process depending on the dog, the methods used, and the skill and understanding of both the trainer and the handler. Obedience training is often a prerequisite for or component of other training.
Rally Obedience Trials
This is generally a trial following basic obedience. Dog and Handler teams navigate a course with numbered signs indicating different exercises to perform such as Sit-Down-Sit, Straight Figure 8, Send Over Jump, Recall Over Jump. Teams navigate the course at a brisk, continuous performance without direction from the judge. Handlers are encouraged to talk to their dogs during the performance. Trials typically include Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 courses. A team earns a Rally title after successfully completing three course runs with qualifying scores. Titles can be earned at each Level and teams may also earn Championship titles, National Ranking Awards and a special Award of Excellence.
Field Trials
Field Trials have developed to test the working ability of Gundogs in competitive conditions. Trials resemble, as closely as possible, a day’s shooting in the field and dogs are expected to work with all manner of game, from rabbits and hares, to partridges and pheasants.
Water Trials
Water Trials test the working ability of water dogs in competitive conditions. Trials are varied in different settings, in different countries. There are levels of trials and include retrieval, blind retrieval, & repositioning objects within the water. Dummies, bumpers, dokkens and real birds are used for these trials.
Agility Trials
Agility provides all handlers and dogs the opportunity to participate and experience success. Novice, intermediate and excellent … Jumpers and Weavers.”
Dock Diving
The natural agility and athleticism of the Barbet, as well as it’s propensity towards water, make it a natural in the sport of dock diving. Using the mental and physical abilities of the Barbet are important, as this breed is highly intelligent, and can if left alone, grow bored and find less desired activities. Different jobs and trials call for different strengths and natural abilities. Dock diving is no exception. This non-traditional sport is gaining more and more popularity in North America, and is alot of fun for both owner/trainer and dog.
Service Dog
There are various private foundations and companies that have developed programs for volunteers and their dogs to become certified to volunteer for animal assisted therapy in various programs and venues such as healthcare facilities, community programs for adults and children, and disaster relief. The training consists of sessions that teach dogs and their handlers the necessary skills and procedures to participate in animal assisted therapy. There are also various private and governmental agencies that have programs that place a well suited dog with a family for the purpose of serving that family, or member of the family in need, such as epilepsy, autism, visual impairment, physical disability, etc. This type of program generally involves taking the pup from a young age, placing it in a training situation for preparation of its’ life long work with a human.
Tracking
“The purpose of tracking tests is to demonstrate the dog’s willingness to work with its handler under a variety of conditions and to follow a defined track, to discriminate scent, to locate and indicate articles. There are various courses within the tracking test. There are Tracking Tests, Tracking Excellence Tests, Urban Tracking Tests, etc.”
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