Agility

Agility is just another stage in training for a dog.  It requires dedication, skill, and a desire to have fun.  Agility is a sport in which your dog runs through a series of obstacles trying to obtain the fastest time.  It is a great area of training for the dog that is hyperactive and likes to run.  It is also good for owners who want to be active with their pets.  There are many different types of obstacles which the dog must overcome. Some of them are the A-frame, dog walk, teeter-totter, open tunnels, closed tunnels or chutes, jumps, the pause table and the weave poles.  In my series of classes I will teach you and your dog to run these obstacles.  We will take basic obedience and vary it slightly to work with the agility commands.  But your dog must know these basic commands before they can move onto bigger and better things.  Basic obedience is the foundation to all other areas of training. 

The Level 1 class will begin with an overview of basic obedience added with new terminology for agility.  The first week will be about getting ready to start agility.  The second week of class we will start learning the pause table and the dog walk.  The third week of class we will learn the weave poles.  And then on the last week of class we will learn the A-frame and then put them all together for a mini obstacle course.

In Level 2 we will do an overview of Level 1, then get right into doing the the jumps.  The second week we will begin the teeter totter, which will be an all class thing.  Then the third week will be the tunnels and chutes.  The fourth week will bring a full course for your dog to maneuver through using all the skills they learned in both Level 1 and Level 2.

Level 3 will bring showing into the mix.  In this class we will learn how to go to an agility trial and place well.  Each week we will set up the course in a different location and each week we will work on different aspects of running the agility trials.  The last week we will hopefully go to a real agility trial and either watch or participate in the trial.