Dog Obedience – Heelwork
March 10, 2010 by Dog Trainer Filed under Dog Obedience
This is my dog Indy, competing in Championship ‘C’- aka ‘Ticket’. Here, he is doing heelwork, which consists of 3 paces, normal, slow and fast. Also postitions on the move, down, sit and stand. This is known as ASSD (Advance Sit Stand Down). No commands or body signals are allowed.
If you can’t use a verbal cue or signal, how does the dog know when to sit, down or stand? Or am I missing something in your explanation?
This is fabulous. I like the hand held up, looks fantastic to me.
jumpit11, although I am not Mad4dogzz, I do live in the US, and I can tell you that if your dog is purebred you can register it w/ the AKC (if not already) The AKC does many Obedience Trials similar to this.
Mad4dogzz…. PLEEAAASE tell me how I can get into this kind of sport. I want my dog to do exactly that. This was amazing. I am absolutely stunned. I have never seen such obedience. Is there something like that in the US? I don’t live in Finland… Please let me know!!!
Good heelwork! And in the UK that’s how it’s done
Hi…The dogs got to focus somewhere…Whats the difference if the dog looks at your hand or your eyes? It’s two different countries…different horses for different courses.
But guys…we’re not IN Finland or Sweden.
“To each his own” is a good saying.
Very Nice! You did great, good work.
IMO, that HW looks awful, messy and inattentive, rushed turns – looks like marching not walking…..
Well done you. The hours of training that you and your beautiful dog must have spent have certainly paid off. I thoroughly enjoyed watching your video.
oh thats reli great how did u get ur dog to do that
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In Finland you would lose points too if you held your left hand like that. Your dog’s good but you holding your hand like that, it bothers me
Cuz this way you might as well teach your dog to look at your hand instead of your eyes. And yet, even we hold our hands naturally, swinging, the left hand doesn’t touch the dog’s face. Search “Vilman tokokoe” that’s a Finnish peep w/ a great groendendael in Winner class (or wateva u call it 
) We have Beginners, Open, Winner and Special Winner.
Excellent Heelwork ! super sticks to you very well! well done!
Very nice Heelwork
Really? That’s interesting. The trouble is, if we held both hands naturally, ie swinging, the hand would be waving in the dog’s face, and push him wide.
In Sweden, you would lose points, by holding the left hand like that. Both hands must be held pending naturally….
Alright. That makes sense then. When I saw you say no verbal commands or hand signals were allowed, I thought that was pretty extreme.
Of course you are allowed ONE command when you give the postition, and also another like “Close” when you collect them again.
How does the dog do the ASSD if there is no communication allowed? Dogs cannot read our minds.
Go cousin Indy!!
Cousin Ethan x