Learn from experience! Melissa shares what she learned at her most recent dog agility trial with Mocca. Most importantly, they’re enjoying their time together.
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Dog agility enthusiast describes the experience of their first outdoor dog agility trial. Read about her strategy and outcome!
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Trials and tribulations of a typical dog agility competition. Experienced in agility? You’ll relate to this story and are encouraged to comment with your experience! New to agility? Get a good feel for how agility trials work.
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Expecting to have a great day at agility competition, this dog owner tells a different tale. Her dog woke with a limp, which was soon diagnosed as Lyme Disease.
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Dog agility enthusiast describes the trials & tribulations of dog agility trials. Lessons she learned to increase their score.
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After our trouble with the A-Frame on Saturday, I was doubly worried about it. Added onto the fact that the course was tough, and a trap laid by the A-Frame, I wasn’t very confident we were going to make it through this one. There was a Tunnel entrance right next to the A-Frame entrance – a lovely trap. So off we went to run this one…All in all it went great!
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Whew! What a weekend! This was the first time we competed on both days of a competition. So both Saturday & Sunday were all agility for us. This was also the first time we competed in the “Open” class, and were quite nervous about it. The novice courses were really easy for us, and we [...]
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Here are a few terms to remember that you might hear quite often at an agility trial.
Q: Qualified: Qualifying is what is most important when competing. In order to get up to the next level of competition, you have to Qualify a certain amount of times. We had to Qualify in three different courses, [...]
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What dogs can do agility?
ANY DOG! I have seen all sorts of dogs doing agility: big dogs, little dogs, slow dogs, fast dogs, old dogs, young dogs…And the same for the people running with their pet. I’ve seen 5 year old kids running dogs, and 70 year old adults running dogs, and absolutely everything in [...]
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Dog agility is a sequence of obstacles, in which you run your dog through in a particular order, under a predetermined amount of time. It sounds a little scary at first, but it’s not. It’s just great fun! I think of it as a playground for my dog – fun things for her to do [...]
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I was first introduced to agility back in 2006. My elderly Irish Setter, Molly, had recently passed away, and I wanted to keep myself, and my Border Collie, Mocca, busy. If you know anything about Border Collies, you know a bored one means T-R-O-U-B-L-E! There happened to be an open house being put on by [...]
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