Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Agillity Targets
When we got Max all those months ago we had no idea he would get us involved in agillity, learning tricks, doing house checks for Many Tears (www.manytears.co.uk) or even what it would be like to have a cannine family member.
Agillity for the uninitiated is where a dog runs a course of jumps, tunnels, frames, sesaw and sometimes through a tyre.
This sounds straightforward, but it is not as easy as those clever canines on tv make it seem. It is also very addictive, some of our friends are at training 4 times a week and do trials and competitions every weekend from April to October.
We have limited ourselves to 1 class a week with Dianna & Rhyss, that Marcus does with Max. Then a training session with Dianna and Rhys, as well as Anna & Rufus. The difference from when we started in May to now is stunning. He is so much more responsive and the understanding we have of how he thinks is brilliant.
When you run a dog like Max you are thinking 2 obsticles following the 1 he is doing, so you will say 'over' a jump as he leaves a tunnel and then as he jumps 'over' the next jump.
The things that beat Max is he is sooo fast. He loves agillity and whines when he watches the other dogs doing their agillity rounds. He speeds upto the A frame or the dog walk and misses the target pint. These are the areas that are painted a contrasting colour. The dog must touch these with I belive all 4 paws on entering and exiting the frame or dog walk or the sesaw. Max is so long legged he jumps all of them, we have to lead him by his collar over the obstacle and he can still decide to jump off.
The funniest thing is to see him on the sesaw, he jumps and uses the motion of the obstacle tipping to jump over the other side.... it made the trainer laugh out loud when he did it the 1st time.
Vx
Agillity for the uninitiated is where a dog runs a course of jumps, tunnels, frames, sesaw and sometimes through a tyre.
This sounds straightforward, but it is not as easy as those clever canines on tv make it seem. It is also very addictive, some of our friends are at training 4 times a week and do trials and competitions every weekend from April to October.
We have limited ourselves to 1 class a week with Dianna & Rhyss, that Marcus does with Max. Then a training session with Dianna and Rhys, as well as Anna & Rufus. The difference from when we started in May to now is stunning. He is so much more responsive and the understanding we have of how he thinks is brilliant.
When you run a dog like Max you are thinking 2 obsticles following the 1 he is doing, so you will say 'over' a jump as he leaves a tunnel and then as he jumps 'over' the next jump.
The things that beat Max is he is sooo fast. He loves agillity and whines when he watches the other dogs doing their agillity rounds. He speeds upto the A frame or the dog walk and misses the target pint. These are the areas that are painted a contrasting colour. The dog must touch these with I belive all 4 paws on entering and exiting the frame or dog walk or the sesaw. Max is so long legged he jumps all of them, we have to lead him by his collar over the obstacle and he can still decide to jump off.
The funniest thing is to see him on the sesaw, he jumps and uses the motion of the obstacle tipping to jump over the other side.... it made the trainer laugh out loud when he did it the 1st time.
Vx
Labels: A frame, agillity, dog walk, Dogs, energy, fast, focus, learning, Rhys, round, Rufus, trainer, Training
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