Regular Agility Compettitors?

[GreyhoundGirl]

Here's one of my girl and I on june 18 ( when we won, yay ) sorry it's blurry

[Danegirl2208]

aww thats great..congrats

[bckrazy]

Everyone's pictures are really cute! Your girl is a Greyhound mix, right? You said she was like 30", she looks more like 20"

I do not have any pictures from matches. =P Not even Rally-O! Gonzo has only done prenovice Agility, but here's a training picture that I have.

[GreyhoundGirl]

Jenny and I were at a competition today. We didn't win. Oh well. We have another K9 Kup tommaro, YAY !!!

"Your girl is a Greyhound mix, right? You said she was like 30", she looks more like 20" "


Yes, she is a greyhound mix. I just measured her. She is just over 28" inches.(shoulders ) You can even tell by the photo. She goes right from my knees to my chest. I can't wait untill tommaro ! YAY !!!!

The only thing is... I'm competing against the dreaded. . . BORDERLINES !!!!! All PUREBRED ( thier team doesn't accept mixs ) border collies, that are very smart and super well-trained for agility.


My team of mix-matched breeds ( 3 aussies, 1 shetland sheepdog,1 husky mix, 1 greyhound mix ( guess who ? ! ) 1 boxer, 1 lab, and 1 bichon frisé mix. Sorry if I missed anyone !) have never beaten them. They are too good. My team has good jumpers ( Babe, Cricket ) good weavers ( Cutter, Molly ) fast dogs ( Jenny, Dean ) and good contacting dogs ( Kolby, Buddy ). But there team has good everything ! We can't compete with them.

Maybe tommaro we'll beat them. We'll show them you don't have to be pure bred. Show them that we make a good team, and we're just as good as all there specially-trained dogs. ( positively yet competitively) WE"LL SHOW "EM !

( consults dog, who is lying at feet. ) You will beat them, won't you, Jenny?

Then she gives me the look that clearly says " Yea, right, not in a million years ! " ( I won't even try ")


He He, like the way I wrote my post?

( it's just for fun, there are no titles or anything. But I thought it would be funny to write my post this way. Not the colour. It seems like I wrote it from a different point of view..... )

[.sarah]

[COLOR=Red]"Your girl is a Greyhound mix, right? You said she was like 30", she looks more like 20" "


Yes, she is a greyhound mix. I just measured her. She is just over 28" inches.(shoulders ) You can even tell by the photo. She goes right from my knees to my chest. I can't wait untill tommaro ! YAY !!!!

How tall are you?

[GreyhoundGirl]

Good question. I'll check.... 1 sec...were's that stupid measuring tape.....

About 64 inches... I think. When my mom gets home I'll get her to tell me.

[GreyhoundGirl]

WOO HOO !!!

Jennifer and I won 2nd today !!!!( Borderlines got 1st ) Yes! Oh yea, oh yea...( does happy-party dance )

It wasn't in standard, though... it was in snookers. We didn't get to finish, though... Because we got called off for doing the tire only once. Like that matters. I had to re-try the course because the first time the judge called me off for no reason. So he let me re-try. ( he's a nice person )

In standard I didn't actually do that well.... Jen took too long trying to get into a lie-down on the table. ( it was really hot !!! )( I also lost 5 points for touching the table to try and get her to lie down. )

I jumpers she did really well, too. Unfortunatly, so did the competition. So, she didn't place. Oh well.

I will post some pics of today later.

I also need some advice, though... Does anyone know a different way to train weaves? My girl isn't too good at them. ( she lost 20 points today for skipping the 12 weaves ) She will do off-set, no problem. But she won't do straight weaves, the one's that they use in competition.

I've got to train the weaves before the next competition. Please help !!

[binka_nugget]

We don't compete yet.. but I'm hoping we will very soon! We started taking agility classes not too long ago and he's already doing such a good job. All we really need to work on is the aframe.

I also need some advice, though... Does anyone know a different way to train weaves? My girl isn't too good at them. ( she lost 20 points today for skipping the 12 weaves ) She will do off-set, no problem. But she won't do straight weaves, the one's that they use in competition.

I've got to train the weaves before the next competition. Please help !!

Do you clicker train? I trained Kai to do weaves by clicking for just entering on the correct side. Then I started clicking for entering the correct side and taking a step towards the next pole, then clicking for entering the next pole, etc. His weaves are pretty solid now and it didn't take very long for him to get it.

[GreyhoundGirl]

Jenny is a timid dog. She's scared of the noise the clicker makes. Plus, my trainer doesn't do clicker training, so we don't really get a chance.

[binka_nugget]

You could still use the same method but say "Yes!" instead.

[GreyhoundGirl]

I say good girl everytime she gets one right. Does that count? ( which doesn't happen often on straight weaves )

[wolfsoul]

Saying yes would be better. For some reason, dogs react better to the word "yes" than any other random word for praise.

[binka_nugget]

Well, the idea behind the "click" is that the sound is always the same. The click lets the dog know that it did something good at that very moment and will be rewarded for it. That's why I think it's better to use "yes!" if you choose not to click.

Clicker training is training step by step. So instead of having the dog weave all the way, then rewarding, you click (or say "yes!") when it enters the correct side. After the dog starts getting it, you only click when the dog takes a step out, then click when it goes further and further. The idea is that the dog will start offering things (another step) to you in exchange for the click.

It's a bit of a hassle to introduce the dog to the clicker/method but I've found that Kai's weaves were 100% more solid after I started clicker training.

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

I don't compete in agility with any of mine. I'd love to with Tango, but she needs to work on her doggy skills and focusing on me. If a dog were to bark or growl, all attention on me is lost and she's off to see which dog was barking...hopefully someday though. If not with her, definitley my next dog.

[k9krazee]

The way I taught Jack to weave was to make a channel with some pieces of chicken wire type stuff. I started with all of them on and slowly took one peice of the fencing away until he was doing it reliably. He is just about perfect with his weaves, since its one of the few pieces of equipment I own, and he is incredibly quick too.

Here are some incredibly bad pictures of the channel thing.