Welcome to the Placer County Schutzhund Club website!
We are a group of individuals dedicated to training and trialing our dogs in the three-phase sport known as IGP, IPO, or Working Dog Tests (formerly known as "Schutzhund"). Our club is devoted to the preservation of working dogs through the sport of IPG/IPO/Schutzhund.
Schutzhund, IPO or IGP, is a rigorous sport containing three equally-weighted phases of tracking, obedience, and protection. IPO measures the dog's mental stability, temperament, endurance, structural efficiency, natural scenting ability, courage, and desire to work with their human.
Placer County Schutzhund Club is a small training club in Lincoln, CA. We are a full member club of the United Schutzhund Clubs of America, and are part of the Northwestern Region of USCA.
PCSC usually hosts one IPO/IGP trial per year, plus our annual Dogstock Training Seminar event. PCSC will be hosting the following events:
Dogstock - Last Dogstock held May, 2022 - there will be no Dogstock in 2023 due to our Hosting of the Northwest Regional Championship. Watch for a future announcement for Dogstock 2024
Club Trial - March 30, 2024