Matching Results: Getting Started with Agility Training
Building an Agility Dog Course in Your Backyard
There are 3 ways to build a backyard agility course for your dog. You can buy ready-made agility equipment for your dog, you can make it yourself using PVC pipe and lumber or you can use stuff that you may already have laying around your yard. The first two options cost money so if that’s … [View Details]
How Much Time for Agility Training?
Many dog owners who are thinking about getting involved in dog agility training are concerned about the time commitment it takes. Well, that all depends on what your goals are for your training and what level you’d like to achieve.
If you are doing agility training just for fun, you only need to spend about an … [View Details]
Go Out and Go Over Agility Commands
When you teach the “go out” command, you’re going to reward your dog by tossing their favorite treat or toy away from you when they leave your side. I know this is hard to envision but imagine when you are playing “catch” with him to know what this training will look like.
Clicker and Agility Training Part 2
In this final clicker training lesson, your dog will learn to incorporate a behavior after he’s heard the click in order to get the treat.
Using the Clicker for Agility Training
You can teach your dog agility using clicker training. All you need to get started is a bag of treats, a clicker and a willing dog.
More Dog Agility Training Tips
Before you decide to get involved in teaching your dog agility, you should attend a match or trial without your dog to see if it’s something you would both enjoy doing. What looks like fun on TV may not appeal to you once you see it up close and in person.
Help for Shy Dogs
Is your dog a little bit shy with human or even other dogs? Giving your dog something else to focus on like agility training could give your dog more confidence. Here’s a great article I found that will give you some tips on how agility training can make your timid dog more confident.
Tips to Help an Overweight Agility Dog
Overweight agility dogs need to be especially careful when they start out. Since the sport involves a lot of jumping and running, extra pounds can cause extra stress and injury on joints and other body parts.
Best Dog Breeds for Agility?
Even though any dog can do agility, some dog breeds are better than others for agility because of their personality traits and physical characteristics.
Extremely large dogs like the Great Dane and Saint Bernard understandably have difficulty with agility because they are not fast enough and they find some of the obstacles, like the tunnel and … [View Details]
Socializing Your Dog
Before taking your agility dog to a competition or a public agility course, you need to make sure they can behave in the presence of other dogs. Sometimes our dogs go absolutely nuts when they see other dogs. He may be the best behaved, nicest dog when he is around you and your friends. But … [View Details]
