#agility

[fawnduu]

Please enjoy my dog making me eat my words at the agility trial today.

#agility dog #shiba inu #agility #dog sports

[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.

#she still loves it but ... we don't think she can hear that well and she can't run fast enough to make the course times anymore :( #But she still does it for fun! #dog agility #dogblr #dog sports #agility #aac nationals #bree #professional photos

[wyrddogs]

He zooms!

#kermit #dachshund #agility

[twobigears]

more flying fur appreciation

📷 Happy Kampa Photography

#white swiss shedder (cheddar) #Blizzard photos #Blizzard #white shepherd #dog agility #agility

[coffee-mage-sans-caffeine]

This is Benton. Benton is taking a shrimp nap after a hard day of totally breaking his agility teacher. But wait, you say, how did he break his teacher?

Benton has struggled with hind end awareness, which is dangerous for obstacles like the dog walk, a high, narrow bridge. If a dog on the dog walk turns wrong on it or forgets they have a hind end, they can have a nasty fall and get hurt. Fortunately, we have an excellent agility teacher who teaches backing up onto a platform to teach them to be aware of their feet.

First you teach them to back up. For 6-8 months, Benton and I worked almost daily on teaching him to go backwards on command. No matter what I did, for months, he sat down and visibly fretted, didn't try to back up, even though I've watched him climb stairs backwards. Finally he started reversing!

Next, you introduce a board or other contrasting texture so that they learn to target the object backwards with their hind feet. You repeat this until you see them searching for the board with their little leggies. Once he could reverse, he started looking for the board quite quickly and graduated to platforms.

Sounds successful, right? Why would this break his teacher? Sure, he went slow, but he can do it, right?

Well, there's one more piece to the puzzle. Eventually you have to get them onto a narrower platform because they need to aim. They need to be able to find the platform with their feet and steer towards them.

Benton goes backwards in circles. He cannot go straight at all. He just turns like a baffled Roomba until he finds the platform by accident or I call him off, reset him, and start again.

Today his teacher admitted defeat. He knows he needs to have his feet on the platform. He knows to look for it. He cannot go straight, even after a year. After thirty years of training agility, having her students be the best in the state at contact obstacles like the dog walk, she has admitted that he will not progress further so we're going to stop this exercise and move on to the next steps of agility.

He has broken her and I love him.

#dog training #dog #Benton #Benton Fraser #Dogs #Agility #Training

[kaldurcalm]

PLEASE go check out this chihuahua doing a full sized agility course.

I think it should be taken into consideration that the jumps are taller than she is when the judges calculate the time. Of course she's slower! She has to go so far!!

#dogs #agility

[vintage-tigre]

#the Tao #alan watts #like a cat #aesthetic #vintage #agility #relax #falling #soft landing #life advice #quote

[fayeandknight]

Eagerly awaiting his turn to run.

#dogblr #forte #belgian tervuren #dog agility #agility #our last run was our worst so of course that's the one that was timed #86 seconds #on 20 obstacle course with two of them being the weave poles

[sammythesheltie]

Our first agility "training" after years (really years, when I remember right ca. 5 years).

Sammy had so super much fun ❤️.

He was a bit pushy the first minutes but he did an amazing job.

I really need to be faster and my body langauge and commands are bad - I need to help Sammy more.

I hope we can train soon again ☺️.

#dogblr #dogs #puppies #video #dog training #agility #dog agility #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #winter #january #january 2024 #sammy

[theadventurek9]

This run had a bunch of rear crosses and it just flowed smooth.

#agility #agility dog #asca nationals 2023 #sport dog #dog sports #australian shepherd #dogblr #aayla #dog #aussie #dog training

[whereifindsanity]

Agility competition. Husky vs Border Collie.

#border collie #agility #competition

[wobblefloss]

I highly encourage you to search "rabbit agility competition" on the YouTube.

Little bunny show jumping videos.

Boing boing

🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰

#rabbit #bunny #agility #feel good

[twobigears]

sometimes she does actually look like she enjoys agility 😊

📷 Happy Kampa Photography

#Blizzard photos #Blizzard #white shepherd #dog agility #agility

[wyrddogs]

This was Kermit’s first time actually competing in an agility trial-- at the previous one I only had him entered as FEO.

His Jumpers Starters run was amazing. I think he was a bit tired by then because he was slowing down a bit on the final stretch, but again I love the enthusiasm. He had a great time and was very popular with the audience.

I believe he was also the only 4-inch dog entered in the trial.

#kermit #dachshund #agility #usdaa #literally we left the ring and a bunch of people ran over #'if I'd known dachshunds could do agility I'd have done it with mine!' #'maybe I need one of these' #'what an amazing little dog' #the judge told me she'd wished she'd known I was entered #because she would have given me her dachshund shirt #anyway run dachshunds in agility #it's great

[random-xpressions]

Agility is definitely a game changer and by this I'm specifically referring to mental agility. Circumstances and situations are unique, each having a distinct set of challenges. Your mind's instant ability to weigh the matter in less than a fraction of seconds and to determine the response action is something that must defy the computing powers of even the most advanced language models. The world we live in today sees time as the most valuable asset. Your allocation to perform may be just a few seconds. How you handle a given situation and what decision you formulate within those milliseconds could either make you or break you. So cultivate the habit of fast thinking, quick analysis and agile thought processing. It will literally save your day!

Random Xpressions

#agility #mental capacity

[thelittlespanielthatcould]

baby was getting tired towards the end of agility class so he sat down while doing his paws trick

#we're doing foundations agility again because the first foundations class we did was like 3 years ago and I forgot everything #well #not everything #a lot of the stuff we're learning he does have some background in #but my mechanics need a lot of work and his focus needs some fine tuning #its so much fun though #the only reason I couldn't do it more often was because it was hard to fit it in with my schedule and how far I had to drive #but now I moved somewhere intentionally close to an agility facility and we could walk there if we wanted to #which I will want to if the next round falls on my day off #and if I could build up his stamina... lol #i think both our muscles atrophied never leaving the house because it was so goddamn hot all the time when we lived in fl #we're catching up now though! #slowly but surely #agility #classes #kovus face #ckcs #kovu #dog sports