Course Details
3 WEEK CLASS - An essential part of most dog sport training is teaching your dog to perform competition skills when all rewards are left outside the work area. Unfortunately, this is rarely addressed when preparing for trials.
Most handlers train by carrying treats or toys (for quick access), which is not allowed in real competition. In trials, rewards are removed, delayed, or stored outside the work area, and dogs are expected to perform consistently and with focus without immediate reinforcement.
This class teaches dogs how to work confidently without visible rewards and to understand that reinforcement occurs, but there is a transition remotely to it.
Dogs that are not strategically introduced to working away from rewards often struggle in competition, not because they lack skill, but because they were never prepared for this critical transition. This class closes that gap and helps create confident, reliable, competition-ready teams.
Teaching Approach:
Instructor: Nancy Gagliardi LittleNancy Gagliardi Little (she/her) has been training dogs since the early 1980s, when she put an OTCH on her Novice A dog, a Labrador retriever. Since then she has put many advanced obedience titles on her dogs, including 4 AKC OTCH titles, 6 UD titles, 3 UDX titles, and multiple...(Click here for full bio and to view Nancy's upcoming courses)
