Dog agility training question: “Sending the dog through”?
I’m not sure how to “send my dog through” the course with me handling from a distance. Any help with training tips?
Also, is there a good site that tells you how to train different agility skills and obstacles? If so I’d love to get the link to it, thanks!
Thanks for trying, but I’m new to agility and haven’t enrolled in any classes.
I’ve taught my dog all of the obstacles and front and rear crosses. I’ve been handling right next to her, but as i’ve watched others compete, they send their dogs through. I was wondering if there was a specific way that you are supposed to teach a dog to be sent through part of the course.
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It’s much too complicated to go through the whole thing here. Besides, a dog who’s doing agility needs to go to classes – they need the distractions, the noise, people, dogs, equipment. And you need a qualified instructor to teach you all the best methods to make this fun for your dog.
Yep, getting a little tired of people wanting an entire year’s worth of agility instruction for free in one post! There are some youtube vids of teaching different skills, but in the absence of knowing what you are doing, I wouldn’t suggest this approach. My suggestion, go to class, work on teaching obstacle independence, learn how to do rear crosses if you want to handle from behind (though this may or may not be the best choice for you and your dog), and watch some agility online (youtube has lots of vids of competitions) and even better, go watch a real trial, volunteer to help (you will learn a lot), and find an instructor.
two websites that have some helpful info and links:
http://www.googility.com
http://www.cleanrun.com
I’m sorry, this is pretty much impossible to answer without knowing how your dog runs. Some dogs naturally want to run at a distance from their handler & other dogs are rather velcro & working away from their handler is very hard for them. You would obviously handle these 2 type dogs very differently when training distance work. We would also need to know what type handling system you use & have taught your dog. Your instructor would be the best person to help you with this. Consider attending a distance seminar. A few things are universal for a dog to be able to work distance….They need to have independent obstacle performance skills, esp. contacts & weaves. They also need to have solid directional commands/cues. Obstacle discrimination helps also.You can find good training articles to help with building these skills in Clean Run magazine. You can purchase back issues online from their website. They have some articles available free on-line too. They also offer training DVD’s for sale.
http://www.cleanrun.com/
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Agility Trainer/Competitor 10 yrs