Specialty Class
Rally
Refine leash handling, commands, and partnership through the dynamic dog sport of Rally.
Syllabus Overview
What Rally Covers
Rally teaches the subtleties of obedience by refining leash handling, commands, and cultivating a well-rounded, proficient, and enthusiastic dog. Rally class is a wonderful opportunity for parents to strengthen the bond with their pets, stimulate them mentally and physically, and revel in a gratifying and enjoyable journey together. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both you and your beloved pup.
Who this level is for
Dog-handler teams who have completed at least Elementary and want a structured, competitive obedience outlet. Especially good for high-drive working breeds.
Progression
What Comes After Rally
Rally is ongoing, with no fixed graduation. Teams progress through course difficulty levels (Novice, Intermediate, Advanced) at their own pace.
Common Questions
Rally Questions, Answered
What group class levels do you offer?
Partners Dogs teaches a modular 8-grade-level curriculum covering 115 behaviors in the PD360 system, and the catalog keeps growing as our trainers add new skills:
- Pre-School: manners, socialization, confidence, and proper play, with separate Puppy and Adult tracks (puppies join from 20 weeks, about five months)
- Kindergarten: heel, place, stay, free, and thresholds, the foundations every later level builds on
- Elementary: the everyday commands, Reset, Done, Leave It, and Off, plus impulse control
- Middle-School: structured off-leash work, grooming tolerance, and desensitization
- High-School: retrieve, pacing, and real-world proofing around children, sounds, and handling
- College: distance commands, Middle, Send Out, and functional household tasks
- Masters: complex routines like Figure 8, Orbit, and Put Toys Away
- Dogtorate: frisbee, leg weaves, and performance-level athleticism
Rally and Agility run as specialty classes alongside the curriculum, and graduates can add AKC Canine Good Citizen prep and testing. A behavior taught at one level is reinforced at the next and proofed above that, so the same skill keeps deepening as your dog climbs. Open enrollment lets you join any week and progress at your own pace.
What is Rally at Partners Dogs?
Rally is a dynamic dog sport that refines leash handling, obedience precision, and partnership between you and your dog. It's a specialty class, run alongside the core grade-level curriculum rather than inside it.
Beyond the sport itself, Rally strengthens your bond, gives your dog mental and physical stimulation, and gives you both a genuinely enjoyable shared activity, structured, but never all business.
Do I need prior group-class experience before joining Rally?
Yes, Rally is best suited to dog-handler teams who've completed at least Elementary and want a structured, competitive obedience outlet. It's especially good for high-drive working breeds that thrive on a job.
Rally runs as a specialty class alongside the core curriculum, so most students are actively enrolled in, or have graduated from, other grade levels at the same time.
What are group classes at Partners Dogs?
Group classes at Partners Dogs are weekly small-group training sessions at our Scottsdale and Cave Creek campuses. Dogs progress through 8 cumulative grade levels, from Pre-School to Dogtorate, covering 115 behaviors tracked in the PD360 system.
The curriculum is cumulative: behaviors taught at Elementary are reinforced in Middle-School and proofed in High-School, with each behavior moving through at least four stages of learning. Sessions are taught by master trainers in groups of 6 dogs or fewer, and open enrollment runs year-round, so you can start any week without waiting for a new session. Drop-in classes are $65 per session with no long-term contracts. Rally and Agility specialty classes are also available.