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OB800 Mondioring OB: All-Breed Obedience

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Sara Brueske (Faculty)
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

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Sara Brueske

Faculty

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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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

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$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

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$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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A great course - so worthwhile for teams at all different levels. Even at bronze I found it to be fantastic. It felt like it was personal instruction for me - for both of my dogs, each very different. Taking courses from the Fenzi Academy gives you a chance to "work" with many different highly skilled/positive instructors and even today it isn't easy to find that many trainers who are primarily positive at competition levels. I feel like I come away with a new skills or insights from each class I take (4 so far).

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This is the first online class I have taken. Although I took it at the bronze level, I was amazed at how much I got out of it and couldn't wait to try the exercises and share them with my training partners. As an inexperienced handler with little competition experience, I was nervous. There was no need to worry. Denise accepts her students, canine and human, right where they are. She is very clear that you don’t have to keep up, make comparisons or master it all in the 6 week session. Her feedback is prompt, frequent and right to the point. As she discusses areas that need work, she is encouraging and reinforcing. I always felt like wagging my tail and working harder after every interchange. Getting to know and watch the other students is fun and instructive. I am looking forward to taking classes regularly through the Fenzi Academy. And I highly recommend that you go for the gold!

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