Riverstone Dog Training

Performance Puppy / Beginner

5-Part Program

Ready to get your puppy or young dog started

in competitive obedience?

Then get him off to the right start in this program for future performance dogs.  Over five 8-week courses, all of the skills and exercises of Novice and Open are thoroughly taught step-by-step.

Doing it right from the start ...

...creates the best results in the end!

Any puppy at least two months old can start in this program in Part 1.  Whatever a puppy learns during his first year will last his lifetime!  Train early for attentive enthusiasm and committed confidence.  Any young adult ready to start learning competitive obedience is welcome too. 

This program begins in Part 1 with Novice skills and progresses into Open by Part 3.  By the end of  five 8-week courses, all of the skills and exercises needed for Novice and Open are complete.

A NEW Performance Puppy / Beginner Part 1 class

will begin on Wednesday, October 20 at 5:00,

meeting at the K9 Jym in Colmar Pa. 

Registrations for this new class are being taken now!

New and Ongoing Novice,

Open and Utility Classes

Ready to start or continue in Novice, Open or Utility training?  Join us and learn to train competitive obedience skills in a clear step-by-step manner that teaches complete understanding of every piece of each exercise. 

Teach your dog with an emphasis on attitude, attention, and accuracy, so that your dog is an active and committed member of your team.

Obedience Ring Prep Classes  

“Get Out of the Box” !!

Anne’s instruction stimulates both handler and dog to truly think and learn by “getting out of the box” – working on exercises in continuously different ways so that the dog mentally engages in active learning and increases its interest and commitment to work.  This resolves the common problem of the dog working by rote, or “auto-pilot,” usually marked by a bored, inattentive attitude easily subject to breakdown. 

Get your dog out of the box of patterned training and into a state of active participation!  Anne’s Obedience Ring Prep classes offer great opportunities for you to improve your team's attitude, attention, and accuracy.  Learn new and fun ways to practice, proof, and polish obedience exercises in active and intense sessions. 

Prerequisites: At each level, your dog must basically know the exercises (not necessarily every detail) and be ready to practice them in group situations.  Please, no dogs with significant aggression problems toward people or dogs.

Dune and Anne heeling at the 2009 Invitational

Dune wins the SuperStar division of the All Star Obedience Tournament August 2010, losing just 9 points

out of a possible 1200

Dune over the High Jump at

the 2009 National

Obedience Invitational