Grade Level 7 of 8

Masters

Figure 8, Orbit, Freestyle Bridging, and household tasks like Put Toys Away.

Dogs establishing themselves as masters of body and mind reach new heights in this grade level. Navigate the difficulties of strengthening each known behavior around increasingly difficult environments. Bridge together intricate routines with a combination of precision, creativity, and advanced communication.

This level emphasizes complex tricks, cooperative tasks, and performance-oriented skills — the routines you see at dog sport demonstrations and on social media.

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Who This Level Is For

Is Masters the Right Fit for Your Dog?

Dogs who have completed College and want to keep going. This is where competitive dog sport teams build their freestyle and complex-routine work.

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Every behavior, manner, trick, and tool introduced at this grade level — tracked individually in PD360 so you can see exactly where your dog stands.

Where This Level Sits

Your Progress at

Every behavior your dog learns is tracked in PD360 — our pet progress system. Watch how the curriculum builds level by level.

Total cumulative behaviors learned

Graduation Criteria

When Do Dogs Move From Masters to Dogtorate?

Dogs graduate to Dogtorate once they can execute Orbit and Figure 8 cleanly, complete multi-step task chains independently, and freestyle bridge novel behavior sequences with their handler.

PD360 Pet Progress

Every Skill at

Every behavior, milestone, and assessment lives in PD360 — our proprietary pet progress tracking system. The same record follows your dog across Group Classes, DaySchool, board-and-train Camps, private lessons, and grooming. One profile, one progress story, one team.

300+ Tracked variables per dog
8 Grade levels & curriculum tracks
120+ Behaviors across the journey
Years Of continuous progress data

Behavior-Level Detail

Every command, manner, and trick is tracked through Introduced → Reinforced → Proofed stages.
Programs Stay in Sync

Progress in Group Class flows into DaySchool, Camps, and private lessons. Trainers see the same record.
Honest Recommendations

Your dog moves up when the data says they're ready — not when a calendar says so.
Years of Continuity

Whether your dog is in Pre-School or Dogtorate, the full history travels with them.