creativeparti

It was a training day normally train on tues evening.. But they do training days couple times a year just for poodles

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Panda

Thats awesome! All Poodle agility. I will have to take Panda to agility after he has gotten a bit better at flyball

Teffy

I was thinking about the same thing JE-UK. Not with obedience but pairing agility with tracking (both on grass...yikes).

Obedience and agility hasn't been a problem for me at all. Obedience has been indoors on mats and agility outside on the grass. Also, the equipment, my posture, my volume, where we start (obedience in heel, agility in a stay far away) are dead giveaways.

Agility is so much fun. LOVE IT!

Rocketagility

This is why I don't like it when most people try teaching an agility dog when they have to much obedience.

But things to do to get around it, Ok first teach a go out just like the go out in obedience. You need a dog that will go just as well as he will come. see in obedience everyone focuses on a recall. I focus on the go. next a key to agility is obstacle independance. So first obstacale is the tunnel and once I have a dog that drives to a tunnel and drives through it I work distance and more distance. I also never correct in agility I only reward what I want and ignore what I don't want. I use Free Shaping with every piece of equipment.
next I free Shape the jumps so I have a dog that would rather take a jump than go around it, since agility is mostly jumps. I then do allot of shadow handling to show the dog how to follow me and my body position and hand signals. Then weaves and dogwalk table and teeter and A-frame all are trained. I like to think when my dog is in the weaves I have a 2 second breather to help me get into postion, same with the dogwalk I know how long I have while my dog is performing it and if I teach a 2o2o then I know where he will be waiting for his release.