Keilor Obedience Dog Training Centre

Dogs & Toddlers™ is science-based, proven training that promotes the human-animal bond.  The program is ideal for families with dogs and babies soon to be crawling or walking.  Gain insight and proactive options for common challenges families with dogs experience as ba...

If you are interested in becoming members of KODTC to train your dog, welcome to our website.  We welcome dogs of all breeds/cross breeds, shapes, sizes and ages to our club (pups as soon as they have completed their vaccination program).  

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Story Dogs is a reading program that aims to make reading fun for children, so they become confident lifetime readers. The program is voluntary and involves a dog and handler listening to children read, on a weekly and on-going basis. 

When children read to a dog,...

This is a reprint of an entry on Facebook by the owner, Eliza Ryan, of a very loved young Kelpie.  It is a reminder for us all. (For the Facebook entry please google 'Kelpie Rosie's Weather Warning', also has some lovely pictures of the pup).   (The image above is like...

Are you fascinated by how effective positive reinforcement dog training can be and wanting to learn more?
If you are interested in developing your skills and understanding of positive reinforcement dog training further maybe you might be interested in becoming a traine...

Last Saturday, at the Flyball competition at Ballarat, our Flyball team set a new club record. It was the first time a club team has run under 20 seconds since starting to compete back in the nineties. The time was 19.511 seconds with the team being Max, the border col...

The November new member intake was the last for 2019.  Our club has its last meeting for the year on Sunday 1st December with a FunDay and then will be in recess for the rest of December and January, and will start up again in early February.   

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Every year the KODTC committee votes on the most valuable club member.  This year the award went to Rob Youdan who is an Instructor and committee member.  When he is not taking classes, Rob likes to come to the club with Moto his Ridgeback cross who has had problems wi...

The awards for Members achieving Best Handlers, Most Improved and Encouragement awards and titles in Dog Sports such as Obedience, Agility, Flyball, Tracking and others that were made at club at the December Fun Day,  were beautiful pairs of drinking glasses.  The glas...

At our December Fun Day eight members were honoured for their achievements at the club over the 2019 club year. 

Wally with Eva the black Labrador Retriever received the Best Male Handler Award.

Leonie with Maggie, a very regal Airedale was awarded the Best Female Handle...