By the end of the course dogs should be able to:
- Retrieve dummies both in cover and on short grass with enthusiasm.
- Retrieve marks and memories.
- Understand the left and right directions.
- Deliver to hand.
- Walk at heel position, off-lead for a reasonable distance.
- Sit and stay for a reasonable period of time away from the handler.
- Stop on the whistle close to the handler.
- Automatically sit at the heel position once the handler stops walking.
- Return to the handler when recalled within a medium level distraction environment.
- Understand the hunt command. Understand the simple commands of touch, settle and mat/place board targeting.
- Pivot at heel with the handler when they turn on the spot.
- Go round a post at a distance.