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For those that don't know, I am starting my own agility classes that I
will run out of my own backyard. Basically this is just for any of
the people in my local training club(the abusive/correctional one)
that would rather actually learn how to handle and positive train a dog.
I had my first class that I did myself at my house yesterday. It was
only me and my other friend. The other girl didn't come this time and
my sister decided she didn't want to.
We just worked mostly on jumpers courses, trying to encourage speed.
Her Lab, ebony, is preetty slow at times.. She has no toy drive, so
its hard to motivate her.
But anyway, here's the video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TdIQx38MZw4
And Ebony got tired and just had no drive at all anymore, so we put
her away and went ahead and worked on Marq's contacts:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lf939aiaoxg
This ended up being more of just a practice then a class, though I did
touch on some things in my friend's handling and gave her tips to keep
her lab sped up.
Saturday I should have two springers with their 12 year old handler,
my friend's lab AND aussie pup, my Marq, as well as Cocoa, and maybe
my sister's springer too. I talked it over with my friend, and
hopefully we can get enough equipment(we combine equipment) to make
two courses. One for large dogs to train on, one for the small dogs.
Then we will switch the courses up mid-class and change jump heights,
and then finally at the very end make it into one long course and
adjust jump height according to each dog.
Now I must start planning and figure out the course I'd like to use!
One that can be split up into two smaller courses, while still being
able to do a few other short sequences in that small section of the
course for handling execises.
But also, because I will have two puppies, they will be placed in
their own little class and they will be working mostly on wobble
boards, raised planks, tandem turns, and speed(over 4-8" jumps), and
maybe get started on v-weaves or slanted poles(not enough to bend the
spine).
So, if anyone has any course plans, or think they could help me find a
good one for these purposes, that'd be great! Any suggestions are
welcome.
will run out of my own backyard. Basically this is just for any of
the people in my local training club(the abusive/correctional one)
that would rather actually learn how to handle and positive train a dog.
I had my first class that I did myself at my house yesterday. It was
only me and my other friend. The other girl didn't come this time and
my sister decided she didn't want to.
We just worked mostly on jumpers courses, trying to encourage speed.
Her Lab, ebony, is preetty slow at times.. She has no toy drive, so
its hard to motivate her.
But anyway, here's the video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TdIQx38MZw4
And Ebony got tired and just had no drive at all anymore, so we put
her away and went ahead and worked on Marq's contacts:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lf939aiaoxg
This ended up being more of just a practice then a class, though I did
touch on some things in my friend's handling and gave her tips to keep
her lab sped up.
Saturday I should have two springers with their 12 year old handler,
my friend's lab AND aussie pup, my Marq, as well as Cocoa, and maybe
my sister's springer too. I talked it over with my friend, and
hopefully we can get enough equipment(we combine equipment) to make
two courses. One for large dogs to train on, one for the small dogs.
Then we will switch the courses up mid-class and change jump heights,
and then finally at the very end make it into one long course and
adjust jump height according to each dog.
Now I must start planning and figure out the course I'd like to use!
One that can be split up into two smaller courses, while still being
able to do a few other short sequences in that small section of the
course for handling execises.
But also, because I will have two puppies, they will be placed in
their own little class and they will be working mostly on wobble
boards, raised planks, tandem turns, and speed(over 4-8" jumps), and
maybe get started on v-weaves or slanted poles(not enough to bend the
spine).
So, if anyone has any course plans, or think they could help me find a
good one for these purposes, that'd be great! Any suggestions are
welcome.