Introducing Rally-O

What is Rally-O? It's rally Obedience and it's a great dog sport that requires the dog and handler team to move through stations of signs with obedience skills (typically 10-20). The team of dog and handler moves continuously at a brisk, but normal, pace with the dog under control at the handler's left side. 


Here's how it works:

You and your dog will enter the ring and follow a course of numbered signs.

Each sign indicates a different obedience skill for your dog to perform.

You move at your own pace, completing each skill before moving on to the next one.

Though your dog has to be under your control, a perfect "heel position" is not required.

Rally is a fluid, continuous performance.

Once started, you move from one exercise to the next without being directed by the judge.

He just tags along to watch for mistakes.

His stopwatch is running, but the time is only taken into consideration if there's a tie in scores.

There are currently about 50 different exercises in the sport.

The judge will choose 10-20 exercises and build a course using the signs designating the selected exercises.

All exhibitors will receive a course map from the judge.

They're allowed to walk the course without their dogs prior to the start of the class.

Each owner/dog team starts out with the same number of points.

The judge deducts points for such errors as missed or incompletely performed stations, touching the dog, and leash corrections.

The team with the highest score (i.e., fewest number of faults) wins first place. The next highest score takes second place, and so forth.

(http://www.lovable-golden-retriever.com/rally-obedience.html)

In my opinion, this sport really fosters good teamwork between the handler-dog and it also encourages listening skills, manners, bonding, and confidence building. You can go all out and get competitive or you can do it just for fun


I'm thinking about starting my own version of Rally-O this spring, not so much for competition (just like when I teach agility) but rather for the experience of teaching your dog some good skills in a game-like fashion. 

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