Agility for Fun

6-Week Agility for Fun, 60 Minutes Weekly

Course Description

In Agility, dog/handler teams do not all participate on the course simultaneously - only one dog/handler team is permitted to work the course at a time. Because participants have individual, consecutive turns on the course, it is possible to have teams of different levels in the same class. Examples of Levels are as follows:

INTRO to AGILITY for FIRST-TIMERS

Each week dogs will be introduced to a new obstacle and learn to navigate it.

Handlers will learn the correct names of each obstacle & how to guide the dog through it properly & safely with positive reinforcement. Some of the obstacles to be introduced are:

Pause Table

Open Tunnel

Tire Jump

Bar Jump

Double Bar Jump

Triple Bar Jump

A-Frame

Weave Poles

Chute

See Saw

NOVICE AGILITY for SECOND-TIMERS

Dogs will continue to be introduced to new obstacles AND

Each week dogs will practice the known obstacles to improve their performance on those obstacles.

If ready, dogs will begin to practice the obstacles in combinations.

Handlers will learn how to teach the dog maneuvers such as:

Here or Close

Pause, Wait or Settle

Get Out

Go Right

Go Left

BEGINNER AGILITY for DOGS WHO HAVE “BEEN AROUND” the COURSE

Each week dogs will practice more and more combinations and work on improving performance.