OB800 Mondioring OB: All-Breed Obedience

Mondioring Obedience is a fun new obedience venue catered to all breeds! Based on real-life challenges and working under distraction, Mondioring takes familiar obedience exercises to a new level. With the development of the United States Mondioring Association's Obedience-only program, now any dog can participate and earn titles.

This class will cover each of the exercises in the obedience-only program. Working spots will progress at their own pace, students can work on training the behavior or if the behavior is already known, distractions will be introduced under the guidance of the instructor.

Even if competition isn't your goal, this class will help your dog generalize their obedience behaviors to the extreme!

The exercises in the Mondioring Obedience program include:
Heeling
Down stay with distraction
Position changes
Food refusal
Retrieve
Send away

Course Details

Mondioring Obedience is a fun new obedience venue catered to all breeds! Based on real-life challenges and working under distraction, Mondioring takes familiar obedience exercises to a new level. With the development of the United States Mondioring Association's Obedience-only program, now any dog can participate and earn titles.

This class will cover each of the exercises in the obedience-only program. Working spots will progress at their own pace, students can work on training the behavior or if the behavior is already known, distractions will be introduced under the guidance of the instructor.

Even if competition isn't your goal, this class will help your dog generalize their obedience behaviors to the extreme!

The exercises in the Mondioring Obedience program include:
Heeling
Down stay with distraction
Position changes
Food refusal
Retrieve
Send away

Teaching Approach

This class is taught via written lectures with short demonstration videos. Each week will include a lecture explaining the rules of the exercise we are focusing on and include multiple example videos of the exercise in trial. A second lecture will be posted covering multiple ways to teach the exercise so that the handler may select the method they think will work best for their dog.

Syllabus

Week one

  1. What is mondioring?
    1. Typical trial
    2. Rules for OB/OBJ program
  2. Extra stuff
    1. A-B behavior
    2. Environmental distractions
      1. Bowl game
      2. Pattern games
    3. Start patterns
    4. Recall
  3. Heeling
    1. Exercise description
      1. Possible distractions
    2. Choose to heel

Week two

  1. Retrieve
    1. Exercise description
    2. Bring to hand method

Week three

  1. Positions
    1. Exercise description
      1. Possible distractions
    2. Using a barrier
    3. Front foot targeted

Week four

  1. Down stay exercises
    1. Check in
      1. Check in procedure
    2. Food refusal
      1. Exercise description
      2. IYC
      3. Anticipation of release
    3. Absence
      1. Mat stay
      2. Adding distractions

Week five

  1. Little wood
    1. Exercise description
    2. Scent discrimination concept
    3. Popsicle sticks

Week six

  1. Send away
    1. Exercise description
    2. Send to mat
    3. Anticipation of reward placement

Prerequisites & Supplies

While any skill level can take this class and work on the exercises as they need to, teams that have some of the behaviors may get more out of the class in terms of adding distractions and increasing the difficulty to trial level. Supplies needed:Mat for downstaysPlatform for sitsBowl for pivotsFun distraction items (I use boxes, find stuff people are giving away, rip dog food bags into strips, etc)

Instructors

Sara Brueske (she/her) has been training dogs for over 15 years, and has experienced a large variety of breeds and sports during that time. Having graduated as a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner ...

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Registration

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Gold

$260

Enrollment limit: 12

  • Access to all lectures and homework forums discussion
  • Read all posted questions and answers
  • Watch all posted videos
  • Post general questions to discussion forum
  • Submit written assignments
  • Post dog specific questions
  • Post videos (unlimited)
  • Receive instructor feedback

Registration dates:

July 22, 2026 - August 15, 2026

Silver

$130

Enrollment limit: 25

  • Access to all lectures and homework forums discussion
  • Read all posted questions and answers
  • Watch all posted videos
  • Post general questions to discussion forum
  • Post dog specific questions (video only)
  • Post videos (up to 2)
  • Receive instructor feedback

Registration dates:

July 22, 2026 - August 15, 2026

Bronze

$65

Enrollment limit: Unlimited

  • Access to all lectures and homework forums discussion
  • Read all posted questions and answers
  • Watch all posted videos

Registration dates:

July 22, 2026 - August 15, 2026

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