#agility

[viejospellejos]

El hombre lagartija 🦎

Enviado por: @clocasduende

[horse-breed-a-day]

Horse breed of the day: Swiss Warmblood

Height: 15-16 hh

Common coat colors: Chestnut, bay and seal bay

Place of origin: Switzerland

[kaldurcalms]

One thing about social media is that random people just casually drop dog agility routines that are better than any I've ever seen in person.

[hazard-and-friends]

please ignore everything here except baby being SO GOOD at baby agility. just the best. i love her.

[wyrddogs]

Agility training advice por favor

Okay I have a goofy problem that I need suggestions for.

Zaku looooooves tunnels. He loves them so much. In agility class, he likes to reward himself after training sessions with tunnels.

This means that we do, say, a teeter exercise, he gets his toy, he runs off and goes into the tunnel. He rubs his body all along the inside, he rolls on his back and wiggles on the inside. Eventually he comes out and resumes the actual lesson. It can take two or three minutes for me to catch him, which makes things difficult if we're trying to do reps on an exercise.

We are having to flip the tunnels so he cannot gain entrance to them. So he gets his toy, runs to the tunnel, and then runs back and forth trying to figure out how to get in, before finally giving up and returning to me to play tuggies.

I am planting or throwing the toy for these exercises, so I can't just hang on to the toy. Usually it's quite some distance from me. I'm not going to use food because he finds food rewards mid value at best and i want speed and enthusiasm. (And besides he'd just eat the food and then run to a tunnel.)

I'm using a ball with a rope handle but I can't grab it because he goes WHEEEE and runs to the closest tunnel.

I've tried using a second bally and what happens is he gets his first bally, runs to the tunnel, and then comes back and switches to the second bally.

So this is a very funny problem but I would like suggestions on how to curb it a bit. Reign him in. Keep the fun and enthusiasm but maybe focus on the actual class lesson a little more.

[theadventurek9]

Let the fun for weaves begin! After months of 2x2 training (Though just 1-2 practices a week, so slower progress but better for his brain) I'm saying Ryker has a basic understanding of weaves.

He is able to find easy entrances to the weaves. Which for me is straight on with one obstacle sequencing or angeled entrances with a start line stay into the weaves.

He has also proved he understands finishing the weaves without looking at me. Yesterday we worked on some channel weaves and he moved quickly from four to eight all the way closed in only a few reps.

So now we get to start the really fun stuff IMO. We can start working on speed, handling and proofing. We will keep the weaves at four for working entrances, but start adding in eight for starting to find consistency and to help him figure out his footwork. This will also help him find independence and commitment to completing the weaves.

I'm really enjoying this journey with him. He is picking this up quickly and really is enjoying it!

[tea-time-terrier]

We finally hit up some agility after it being a goal for literally forever. Baby dog got some Q's for a whole four Intro titles <3

[toacody]

Velocirahk, Rahkshi of Agility

Knows how to move with attitude.

Source

Creator: Antak3000

[sammythesheltie]

Not the best pictures, Pino ist to fast for me but he is doing so well!

[syppys-den]

Here's a thing literally nobody cares about but I made anyway. The Main Trio in The Wild Robot's Fallout Stats!

or rather based on the 40 points you start with, if you feel any of these are inaccurate (especially Fink, because I feel like I probably could do him better y'know?) PLEASE for the love of god tell me, and spare no detail anyway here's what I came up with Roz

Strength: 8 Perception: 3  Endurance: 8 Charisma: 2 Intelligence: 8 Agility: 8 Luck: 3

Brightbill

Strength: 2 Perception: 4 Endurance: 9 Charisma: 4 Intelligence: 5 Agility: 7 Luck: 9 Fink

Strength: 4 Perception: 9 Endurance: 5 Charisma: 4 Intelligence: 4 Agility: 9 Luck: 5 kind of funny how I made all of them pretty high in agility (no that wasn't intentional but I suppose it's appropriate)

[pawsitivevibe]

Bree, the 13-year-old superdog, had her last competitive agility run at AAC Nationals recently. Happy Retirement, Bug dog!

Photo by Nancy Miller DVM.

[kitteyrenlover]

it be like dat sometimes

[twobigears]

more flying fur appreciation

📷 Happy Kampa Photography

[theadventurek9]

Ryker's Agility Update

Weaves : Ryker has been making good progress with the weaves. We still are only on four poles. On straight approaches, and approaches from the right of the weaves up to 90* he is doing great with. (Without speed) The left side approach is harder for him and he can handle about 45* but starts struggling after. I have not started any sequencing yet and he is still not ready for that. I would like for him to confidently get a four pole weave from 90* on both sides and with some distance and speed before doing that.

A-frame : Seems like it depends on the day for our running contact. I've gone back to having a stride regulator in and lowering the A-frame again while adding in some sequencing. This seems to be working very well for him and I'll keep it for a while. I'm not looking for a high speed running contact, just hitting contacts.

Dog walk : Confident and great with his down in the contact zone. I think I may want to encourage him to do a 2o2o behavior. I just because sometimes he is downing too far back. I also didn't really want a down for the dog walk but it stuck from our teeter training.

Teeter : Honestly haven't worked on the teeter in a while. He is confident and correct with it, but does tend to stop a little too close to the middle to wait for a slower tip down than I want. I don't need the super speedy stop at the end, but I want faster than he is giving me.

Handling : He is learning and improving. He can read front, rear and blind crosses well. Yet he does get stuck with obstacle focus and I have a hard time pulling him off of tunnels and contacts. Which is to be expected for a baby dog. I've also found that he is easy to accidentally push off of lines if I crowd him at all. He also needs more connection than Aayla and more obvious 'do that' cues. Which are all baby dog things too. He will run past obstacles if my handling is lacking at all. We are working more on verbals with jumps and layering easy sequences currently as well.

Overall a very good boy. I am loosely considering FEO in May at a ASCA trial for gamblers and regular with maybe entering him in jumpers. (Jumps and tunnels only) But I need to start working on ring entrance and exit skills.

[wyrddogs]

Zaku continues to be SUCH a good uncle.

Two weeks in a row I've brought a baby grey to agility class with us for socialization. Since Zaku gets housed in the condominium (great dane-sized crate) I just put the baby in with him. That way they get to be comforted by being able to cuddle with Uncle and learn good class manners from him.

Two different babies have learned how to quietly settle and play with a toy in class from Uncle Zaku.

In further class news, tunnels continue to be a very funny issue. We're doing a lot of off-courses with them to practice not taking them, and Zaku is fantastic at taking the off-course tunnels. Last night we had to block off the tunnel and have my trainer pulling his bunny toy on a rope to get him to actually follow directions. We finished the sequence by sending him through on purpose so he (in theory) learns the difference.

Did a bit of A-frame work and he was great. Lovely body mechanics going over, and for the first four reps he was extremely consistent about hitting the yellow at the bottom, no matter where I was in relation to the A-frame. Last two reps he was tired and flew off early. We took note of that and will stop at four next time as he builds physical and mental stamina.

It was very cute-- on the fifth rep he flew off then was like "oops" and ran back and put himself into a 2o2o position. So he clearly understands what he's supposed to be doing, he was just not physically/mentally capable of so many reps. He's a good boy.