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Comment by Gail and Ashton on November 21, 2011 at 5:45pm

Huge grats Baxter and Zigs! Having fun with your dog is number one! Ashton is done for the year since trial for us means driving and with snow on the mountain passes it's safer for us to just pack it in til spring. That and we need to work on not dropping the very last bar in Jumpers.... ugh. lol

Comment by Bax & Zigs & Rosie on November 21, 2011 at 12:53pm

Thanks! It was a lot of fun. I was pretty nervous before but I'm glad I did it.

Comment by Cheri on November 21, 2011 at 12:35pm

What area are you in and which venue are you wanting to trial in?

 

Comment by Beth on November 21, 2011 at 12:27pm

So exciting!   Way to go.  Sounds like fun.  I'm hoping next summer I can trial, but it's hard to find anything around here and it generally means traveling.

Comment by Cheri on November 21, 2011 at 11:20am

Hurrah! Good job! Going back and getting a missed obstacle is a judgement call. If you don't, you won't Q, but some dogs are defeated if you go back so with them the best thing to do is forge ahead so they feel successful and have a good time. It's always good to remember that a Q is not the only measure of success and it sounds like you know that. Fabulous! 

Comment by Bax & Zigs & Rosie on November 21, 2011 at 11:07am

Baxter ran his first UKC trial this past weekend! We NQ'd the first trial because I missed a jump and didn't have him repeat it. He was somewhat distracted and I just wanted to finish strong. We did come in first place in the next three trials though! We got a perfect score and a 38 second time in the final trial on Sunday. He won a "High in Trial" ribbon and got his U-AGI title. Our next event will be an AKC agility trial in February. Back to weaves training!!

Comment by Beth on October 18, 2011 at 8:56pm

6 weave poles tonight!   Hooray!  I started with the 3rd set as an open gate.  I gradually angled it over all in one session to see if he'd get it and he did.  However, I'm going to go back and work for awhile with the first set offset so I can reward the entry.  I didn't work on rewarding the entry enough once we went to 4 poles and sometimes he runs right to the last set.  

 

Next I have to move them outside.  We tried 6 poles in agility class last night and he acted like he'd never seen such a thing in his life.  We've only done them outside the basement twice, and we were still working on two sets at 2 and 8 the last time we did them outside.

Comment by Beth on October 13, 2011 at 12:06pm

I've never worked with guides, but I would imagine that you would start removing them at the point at which the dog seems to be driving through the poles and focusing on the poles, not the guides.  I would probably start removing one at a time starting with one of the middle ones and see how he does. 

Comment by Bax & Zigs & Rosie on October 13, 2011 at 9:48am

Just a question to throw out to anyone who has trained weave poles using guides-- When did you start removing the guides? I was thinking of gradually removing a guide everyday we train (unless of course it throws off Baxter's progress.) I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with this or any advice on working through removing the guides? Thanks!!

Comment by Cheri on October 13, 2011 at 8:47am

We had the same "pop" issue on the weave poles with  our first agility dog. We learned after that to always train with more than 6 weave poles. Actually the rules for AKC say that 9 to 12 poles are allowed in Open and Excellent so we train with anywhere from 9 to 14 poles just to make sure he'll do whatever is in front of him and not think he's done anything wrong. You don't frequently see a set of weave poles that's not a set of 12, but I have gone to a trial where there was a set of 10 rather than 12.

Good job guys! 

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