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Classes really are so helpful. I didnt realize how much until Rush and I started classes. My handling has improved so much already because I now know just a little bit more about timing and positioning and where to look. It gets complicated! If you are just learning to teach the obstacles and...

For everyone that gave me advice before our last trial I just wanted to say thank you! We did some weave/contact proofing and I worked on my pulls. It all didnt work as well as I wanted to, meaning I made a bunch of mistakes handling. We did okay though! She got 5/10 Qs and her first title :). I...

Thank you! there are like three or four clubs that trial together and then the independent people. Every now and then an instructor will be helping her students in the novice walk thrus and I will listen in lol. I never understood why so much effort went into walking a course, but I think I am...

I really want to take classes. Every time I get around to it (have the money and the time) something comes up. First I had my class money stolen when I lost my wallet. When I finally had the funds to do it again, we got snow. Then we lost snow and I got Maverick lol. Now I am in a program at the...

Thank you! I have always asked for advice on handling and what works at home I guess doesnt always work at trials. My handling is like the only reason I truly want to take classes. People hold back because they are afraid it will hurt my feelings or something. I am going to try what you...

I am still getting used to my handling, but I think I will practice more pronounced handling in practice see if I can get used to it. Shes so fast sometimes it jumbles my brain and I say the wrong command and I cant think accurately so I have no problem taking the blame for our issues lol. I...

Video for people who wanted to see it. YouTube - RaisingK9 NADAC Trial, Oct. 23rd - 25th - her last trial, which was only her second NADAC. Its long so feel free to skip it. YouTube - 11-22-09 - last time we actually did agility (i think), I cant remember if those are just weave clips or if I...

Rush doesn't have any 'major' issues. We have had a few problems in trials with weave entries and pulls, though at home she completely nails them. Her contacts are extremely solid and so are her weave entries (at home). I am just trying to get ideas on what kinds of things to practice! Though...

Rush and Bear havent done any agility since November. Well, with the exception with DW/AF reps since it was all I had up in the yard when we got rain rain rain, snow snow snow lol. I was wondering what I should be working on for our upcoming trial? We havent trialed since Oct D:. I am both...

Just keep trying! I am in the middle of shaping Rush to Yawn, and its really hard, but shes catching on fast. Maybe you should wink at him while you are waiting for him to offer up the behavior. I did that with Rush with the yawning (I dunno if I helped, but I like to tell myself it did lol).

I dont know what brand Mia's tennis balls are, but I get the Kong Squeakers from Petco/Petsmart. I didnt know target carried them? I bet they are cheaper!

oh my hector! Mia is just like Rush, she is the SAME way with her toys. The only ones she is truly obsessed with are the tennis balls with the squeakers (she prefers the extreme large size, but the medium is okay too lol). I am afraid she will choke on the tiny ones D:. Mia made me laugh soo...

I like the Moe Strenfel foundation DVD (Foundation Training For Agility). Its a 3 DVD set, and $39.99 on cleanrun, really worth its money. I havent watched Darrets DVD, but I was told some things that were on it, and I have a friend who saw both of them (and decided to go the Moe Strenfel way...

I am going to start USDAA Summer/Fall 2010 with Rush, so it would be a lot of fun I think to eventually try and Q for nats, especially if they were closer by, as I live in MD, and I would much rather drive then anything. As I have a feeling even if we ever Q for NADAC Nats we will never get to...

Yeah I think I am going to ask her to measure him anyway. Though I first have to figure out how that will be lol. This is confusing the crap out of me. The design is really pretty simple, even the parts that seem hard are going to be easy to sew together, but its like the measurement process...

Ahh yay! I think I figured it out :D! Thank you for putting up with me though. I played around with a piece of string on Rush and measured her girth, and I read somewhere about adding 10 inches, and that is for the connectors. So it goes 23" girth, 23" for collar, plus 10 inches for...

its more complex than that. I am sure there is some special way of taking the girth measurements and making the collar size and everthing else to par to fit with it. If I cant find out what it is, then I will just get the exact measurements, but the way the harness is designed it should work to...

Thats the thing, its going to be on fleece so the collar part wont be adjustable - hence I cant screw it up lol. Its girth (just using it as an example, is say - 23") How do you figure the collar circumference for the harness given based off of that? is what I am trying to figure out.

So I was talking to a friend and she was asking me about harnesses, and me, as stupid as can be said. Oh I can make that. Just because I can sew nylon and fleece together does not mean I have the skills to calculate what is required of me to make the right size harness. So we got his size...

:popcorn: You guys have such awesome dogs XD! I havent posted or updated on here in forever but I am always lurking and Shay you made me wanna post XD. Psyche is coming home with me tomorrow where she belongs lol. I havent done much of anything this year as far as trialing, we have had 4...