How do you get your dog to listen to you in Nintendogs obedience trial?

Well first you have to teach your dog some tricks. I think the first ones you have to teach are sit, lay down, and shake. When you're ready to do an obedience trial, go to the go out page, then choose contests, choose obedience, choose which dog you'll enter, then it will start. When it starts, they tell you what moves the dog has to do in order or for how long. Just do what they say. When it says free performance, then just do whatever tricks you want that it knows. And that's it. Good luck!