agilty question

[lute]

my dog is active and LOVES to jump. hes knows all kinds of tricks and i want to do agility with him.wil all the tricks i've taught him get in the way and confuse him when i train him to do agility?

does anyone ese here have their dog(s) in agility? do you have any pics of them doing agility?

[ParNone]

Hi lute!

The tricks he knows shouldn't interfere with agility. When you learn the obstacles, you'll be giving them a unique name. The only thing I noticed for Oz and I that we had to get use to was caused by Basic Obedience. You learn to heel on the left, but in agility, the dog really needs to be able to work off both of your sides. So I found at first whenever I'd take off running in agility with Oz, he'd want to move over to my left, even if I started him off on the right. To resolve it, I'd just walk him at night, interchanging the sides and intersperse running in there, so he'd get use to running beside me in agility on either side.

Here's a few pics:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p0ecc5efd3b23ff5dfad56901929a5af0/f95fb7ba.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p4c5f1f1c156bcbc03e404c3b71d4c98f/f95fb7c1.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p4543b07f44384491dc5ce9e9ce169123/f95fb7bd.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p486fd085e62e2fcd6399da1c7d4bfe86/f95fb7b7.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p49baf830899999d8f0dfbeb155399c00/f95fb7be.jpg

Par...

[lute]

thanks! i dont think beanie wil have a problem with changing sides.he does anyway.lol

great pics!