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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

AGILITY ANGEL DOGS

Perhaps putting Benji in agility will make him the pick-up-the-newspaper and sit by your feet kinda dog. Maybe he'll stop chewing the walls and howling when we leave the house. Okay, maybe my expectations are high but Agility Training sounds like the best things for dogs since leashes were invented. 
 Best of all, every other kind of training leads up to become beneficial for Agility--obedience, off-leash, etc. Teaching him "sit" "come" "down" will help him with his agility, apparently. He is too young for agility now--he needs all his shots but that doesn't mean I can't "pretrain" him at home with a baby's tunnel, etc. It will help him become familiar with it. I hope he has the right personality for agility. Agility will make a well trained dog out of him!
Dog agility is a dog sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy. Dogs run off-leash with no food or toys as incentives, and the handler can touch neither dog nor obstacles.[1][2][3][4][5] Consequently the handler's controls are limited to voice, movement, and various body signals, requiring exceptional training of the animal and coordination of the handler.
In its simplest form, an agility course consists of a set of standard obstacles, laid out by an agility judge in a design of his or her own choosing on a roughly 100 by 100-foot (30 by 30 m) area, with numbers indicating the order in which the dog must complete the obstacles.
Courses are complicated enough that a dog could not complete them correctly without human direction. In competition, the handler must assess the course, decide on handling strategies, and direct the dog through the course, with precision and speed equally important. Many strategies exist to compensate for the inherent difference in human and dog speeds and the strengths and weaknesses of the various dogs and handlers.

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