What AKC Obedience is
In AKC Obedience a dog and handler perform a set list of exercises in front of a judge: heeling on and off leash, recalls, stays, retrieves and jumping, and in Utility, signals and scent discrimination. The three main levels are Novice, Open and Utility. Alongside them sit optional titling classes: Beginner Novice, for dogs with no obedience title yet, and Graduate Novice and Graduate Open.
Every class is scored out of 200. To qualify, a dog has to earn more than half the points on every single exercise and at least 170 in total, so one bad exercise can sink an otherwise beautiful run. That is exactly why handlers keep track of which exercise costs them points, not just the final number.
What Title keeps for your AKC Obedience dog
Run-throughs scored out of 200
Log a practice run-through with its score out of 200, alongside focus, energy and what went well or poorly, so the weak exercise shows up long before a trial does.
Every trial score and placement
Record the class, score, placement, judge and whether it qualified. The trial sits on the dog’s timeline next to the training that led to it.
Titles on the record
BN, CD, CDX, UD, UDX, OM, OGM and OTCH, the Graduate titles, Versatility, the Preferred titles and the Virtual titles are recognised by code and by name, typed in or read from an AKC My Dog Summary PDF.
One record across sports
An obedience dog is often a Rally dog too. Both live on the same Passport, so the work in one shows up next to the results in the other.
Put your AKC Obedience dog on one record.
Every sport Title supports