Hundeschule Berndorf

About Hundeschule Berndorf

Hundeschule Berndorf is a dog sports club in the Österreichischer Hundesport-Verband (ÖHV), founded in 1926 and therefore a hundred years old this year. Training takes place on the club ground at Grillenberger Feldweg 41 on four days a week, from puppy classes to obedience, rally and hoopers.

What the club offers

• Puppies: playing properly, building a bond, dexterity, road safety and first obedience exercises.
• Young dogs: a course ending with the "Hundeführschein", i.e. the companion dog test with a behaviour part (BH-VT). Dogs that are at least one year old on the day of the test can take part.
• Companion dog sport: advanced obedience with the option of tests in IBGH (international companion dog test), obedience and rally obedience.
• Rally obedience: a course of around 20 signs with tasks such as turns, sit-down changes or slalom, to be completed as quickly and accurately as possible.
• Search and agility: in search work (Stöbern) the dog runs free looking for objects that have been laid out and indicates each find; agility is the fast course over hurdles, dog walk, slalom and tunnel.
• Fit & Fun & Flirt: a course for dogs of any age without a test goal, focusing on bonding and everyday life.
• Ring training: for show dogs with FCI papers from six months of age.

Course times from 1 September 2026

According to the club's current course schedule:

• Tuesday: 17 o'clock Fit & Fun & Flirt, 18 o'clock trick group
• Thursday: 17 o'clock puppies as well as obedience, BH and Unterordnung, 18 o'clock young dogs (as needed), 18:15 search work
• Saturday: 8 o'clock young dogs and rally beginners, 9:15 rally advanced, 10 o'clock hoopers beginners
• Sunday: 15 o'clock hoopers advanced

Membership and costs

Two taster sessions are free. After that, according to the website, you pay a one-off registration fee of 90 euros, which includes the puppy course, and an annual membership fee of 30 euros. A block of 10 course sessions costs 35 euros.

Lower Austrian certificate of competence

The certificate of general competence (Sachkundenachweis), which the Lower Austrian Dog Keeping Act requires for new dog owners, takes place in the clubhouse, including a talk by a vet. Next date according to the website: Saturday, 24 October 2026, 10 to 13, cost 75 euros, registration by e-mail. The club explicitly does not offer the certificate for listed dogs.

Trainers

Chairman Peter Gutovnik is an ÖKV trainer for tracking and obedience and has been chairman since 1980. Birgit Gutovnik trains puppies, young dogs, BH-VT, obedience, search work and tracking. Mag. Marilies Terzer is an ÖHV specialist trainer for rally obedience, and there are also ÖHV course leaders for puppies, young dogs, rally and hoopers.

Ground and getting there

The ground on Grillenberger Feldweg lies between fields towards Grillenberg. The municipality made the site available in 2016, and the club built its own clubhouse there. Contact: 0676 3668700.

Automatically translated from German.

Compiled by our editorial team.