{"id":215,"date":"2018-02-18T22:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/?p=215"},"modified":"2018-02-18T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:04:00","slug":"equipment-training-aids-for-gcds-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/2018\/02\/18\/equipment-training-aids-for-gcds-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Equipment &#038; Training Aids for GCDS Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Can I use a Halti?&#8221; or &#8220;Can I use an anti-bark collar?&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>These are the Kennel Club guidelines&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Toys Food &amp; Clickers<\/h3>\n<p>Toys, food and clickers can be useful training aids. During a testing session, unless required as part of the exercise, they should not be carried in the hand or used during the test exercises.<\/p>\n<h3>Slip Leads and Body Harnesses<\/h3>\n<p>Dogs should be presented for test on a collar and lead with the name and the address of the owner inscribed on the collar or on a plate or tag attached to it. Slip leads, all in one leads or body harnesses (unless required due to a dog\u2019s genuine medical condition) are not permitted during a test.<\/p>\n<h3>Muzzles<\/h3>\n<p>These are not permitted to be used during Puppy Foundation Assessments, or Bronze, Silver and Gold Award testing sessions.<\/p>\n<h3>Halti\u2019s &amp; Head Collars<\/h3>\n<p>During testing sessions, the Examiner should satisfy themselves that when the Halti\/Head Collar is removed, the dog will remain under control. This applies to all exercises. Therefore, if an Examiner requests that a student performs the entire test without the dog wearing this equipment, this must be adhered to.<\/p>\n<h3>Citronella or Anti-bark Collars<\/h3>\n<p>These are not permitted to be used during a Good Citizen Dog Scheme test.<\/p>\n<h3>Electric Shock Collars, Spike or Pinch Collars<\/h3>\n<p>These are not permitted to be used during Good Citizen Dog Scheme training sessions, Puppy Foundation courses, or Bronze, Silver and Gold Award testing sessions.<\/p>\n<h3>Whistles<\/h3>\n<p>These may be used during training and testing session<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Can I use a Halti?&#8221; or &#8220;Can I use an anti-bark collar?&#8221; &#8230; These are the Kennel Club guidelines&#8230; Toys Food &amp; Clickers Toys, food and clickers can be useful training aids. During a testing session, unless required as part of the exercise, they should not be carried in the hand or used during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlswd.com\/demo\/doggycentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}