2010 Obedience Regulations at a Glance

Effective January 1, 2010
Obedience Clubs will have the option of holding two all-breed obedience trials concurrently at the same site on the same day. This changed from clubs only being able to offer two trials of the same event type consecutively.

Trial Secretaries and Superintendents are now allowed to move a dog that has been entered in an "A" class for which it is not eligible to the "B" class at the same level.

Obedience Advanced Teamwork is now a new non-regular class.
(The non-regular classes can be judged by any person who has trained a dog to the Utility Dog title and has been approved to judge non-regular classes. A provisional judge may be willing to judge the non-regular classes for the experience.)

Effective April 1, 2010

Mixed Breeds. Any club eligible to hold obedience trials may offer classes for mixed breed dogs at stand-alone obedience/rally events.

Effective July 1, 2010
Beginner Novice Optional Titling Class. This class is a transition between Rally and Obedience, combining elements from both sports.

An insert to the current regulations is available to download.

In 2009 the Companion Events Department introduced a new regulation promoting the limiting of entries based on judging hours and not by class size.  This is an effort to help clubs reduce their expenses. The change gives clubs the chance to fill entries as received, until an 8 hour judging limit per judge is reached.  Please remember that no judge will be assigned to judge for more than 8 hours in one day, including any breed judging assignment when the obedience trial is held in conjunction with a dog show.