Certain age to start agility?

[IRescue452]

You can start training her on the equipment if that's what the class is about. Until she is over a year of age the jumps and anything she jumps off of should be no more than elbow level on her. Fast-paced competition should wait until 18 months to 2 years. She's not going to be too big so 18 months will probably be ok as long as she's not carrying excess weight.

[Freedom]

Most places require the pup to pass a basic obedience class first, as the dog needs to know stay, wait, and how to follow your lead.

Where Willy goes, they also offer a class called Performance Puppy, for pups who will be going into Agility.

As mentioned, jumps and landings are the key, you want to wait until the growth plates have set for that stuff. Low jumps should be fine.

[MonicanHonda]

A lot of places have an agility prep class, which is working on all the agility foundational skills but don't really touch the jumps yet. I would wait until at least a year to do repeated jumping like you would in a class. However, if the agility class is your foundational skills, GREAT! This would be your handling skills and your crosses and your start line stays, tunnels possibly, etc.

[Sowa]

I just signed Clover up with some private training lessons with the lady who taught her puppy class. I think I'll stick with that for now. We're working a lot on recall and gentle leash walking. We're trying positive training this time. With my past 2 I always trained with training collars. I'm interested to see how this will go. She's doing great, and loves all the treat games she gets to play

[Freedom]

FUN! Just remember to cut back on her food a little bit, with all those treats. You don't want a pudgy Clover!

[Asiel]

Wise to put off the agility for now and concentrate on basic obedience. She needs to have that down pat first and in the meantime she won't be overtaxing her bones or ligaments. You can introduce the tunnel slowly if you want to make that into a fun game but the jumps, twisting and turning stuff is too much for a pup until they're finished growing.

[Sowa]

FUN! Just remember to cut back on her food a little bit, with all those treats. You don't want a pudgy Clover!

I'm actually using part of her dinner as the "treats". She works well for her food. She gets higher value treats though as well sometimes but since I need to use a lot for her training I'm mostly using her food.

[Bonny]

I just signed Clover up with some private training lessons with the lady who taught her puppy class. I think I'll stick with that for now. We're working a lot on recall and gentle leash walking. We're trying positive training this time. With my past 2 I always trained with training collars. I'm interested to see how this will go. She's doing great, and loves all the treat games she gets to play

It sounds like you are doing the right thing by Clover. Learn the basics first & then go on to the more challenging stuff. It would be a good idea to have an x ray done on her hips to make sure there are no problems there that could affect her later on if you want to do agility.