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Originally Posted by
Kicks
Yeah it probably won't take long for both of your confidence to come up, Indy moved upto full height pretty quickly, Oliver is taking longer as he's not 100% confident yet and I don't want to put it up until he is, same with the dog walk.
It's good that your trainers very experienced but don't forget you know Zena and your partnership better than anyone. I wouldn't have thought there'd be any problem in lowering it for a little while if you ask.
When she gets used to going up and over you can introduce a stop at the end on the contact. Most people train a two on two off position, so she would keep her back feet on the the contact point and her front feet on the floor.
Indy runs down to a 'stop' command, but with Oliver we're teaching him to run into the two on two off position without a command and then he gets a release word 'ok' to leave the contact and run onto his toy - which takes longer to teach but already is giving him a more solid contact position when i'm not actually with him, so I can be off to the sides, infront or behind to position myself for the next bit.... cos speedy I ain't!
Lol, no speedy I aint either!!!
I'll be glad when we get to the bit where Zena is doing all the running around and I'm just standing there finger pointing, I'm good at that!!! The trainer was well impressed when she pointed her finger at Zena and she immediately sat down, coz that's what I've taught her! That won't work of course in agility will it!!!
I'm taking your advice and asking her to lower it on Sunday
For MY benefit more than Zena's! Can you please tell me what you say to your Oliver when he gets to the top to get him down the other side please? Well, what you USED to say, coz now he knows it all doesn't he! Thanks again Kicks much appreciated
Originally Posted by
CLMG
Chris is training to be a trainer know, and when the new dogs come in, the A-Frame is on it's lowest setting, and we have a mini dog walk as well, the jumps are either at small or medium level, until the dogs know what's expected of them, as we feel that it would be to easy for the dogs to run under the jumps, thus making a very bad habit that's very hard to break
when they start with the tunnel it's usually pushed as close together as it'll go to start with, then gradually expanded to it's full extent
I love it when the dogs stop at the top of the A-Frame and just have a look around, it's as if they're saying 'na na nananaa, you can't get me'
but it also scares the cr*p out of you when they jump right over the top part
It wont be long until you're getting up at silly o'clock to get to a show by 7.30am, we said we'd never do it and it was just a bit of fun for Jack, but...........................
Lol, silly o'clock is what I used to do when I had the horse, and I didn't want to go there again, but.......
We did have the jumps at their very lowest to start off with, but Zena just clonked them, so she put them up, and then up again when we finished and Zena flew them! The tunnel she wouldn't do at first, so the lady went and got out the smaller one, we practiced with that, then she stuck it on the end of the looooong one and Zena just went through no problems!
OMG, do you mean Zena will eventually be racing up there and just leaping over to the other side then??? I must watch some video stuff on this agility I think to get more of a hang of it! This has started off fun, but I'm sure once I get addicted, I'll be going for it with Zena!!! Thanks Christine, all valuable information there.