Obedience school

Question
My 16 month old Husky has been through the beginner and intermediate obedience school classes.  He is very intelligent and loves learning new things?  We have started to repeat the intermediate, in hopes that he would do better at duration and distance with stay, sits, come, and leave its.  I have few questions or concerns.  One he has become more and more reactive to other dogs in the class.  While in class he seems frustrated and will bit at my hands and quite what ever the task was.  He seems to be regressing. Should I take him out of obedience school?   How useful is obedience school with Huskies? Would it be better to wait until he is older?

Answer
Your dog is bored, he is nipping because he wants to play. Siberians get bored easily because they are very intelligent. What would you consider as smarter a breed that does what they are told all the time like a robot. Or a breed that gets bored, knows they can do other things and they do because they know they have free will.
If you want him to finish the rest of this class I would spice things up for him like bring a favorite toy and play with him during discussion time, ask if you can be excused during class every once in a while to take him out "potty". I would use this time to jog him around and play with him a bit to get him excited about focusing on you. You have to make yourself fun.
Siberians are hard to train because if they see no fun in it, or they see nothing that benefits them any, they won't do it. After this class I would do a class that is more fast paced like agility, or free style. Maybe even cart pulling if it is offered. I would continue with obedience after your little man his about 3 years old so he isn't a puppy any more, though sometimes they don't get the puppy out till they are 4. Also the fact that they are a working breed they NEED to be satisfied physically or they  get unhappy.

But stick with it at home, but I wouldn't do anything with him longer then 5 to 10 minutes so he doesn't get bored with it.
Just think about it, What if you had to do what you do at work at home. Wouldn't you try messing with your co-workers (being re-active to other dogs) and complain at your boss (snip at your hands)?
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-Michelle B