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truelovepoodles · 12-28-2011, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by JE-UK

You can practice contacts at home and get ahead of the class. One of our trainers had us positioning the dog with the hind feet on a step (like the bottom of a set of stairs) and the front feet on the floor, pairing that with a word (we use "hold") and treating. They build muscle memory for that position, and it makes it easier to teach contacts for the A-frame and the dog walk.

Good luck!

That is a great tip...thanks.

Outwest...those facilites look really nice. I find that I am at the point where I have to know where to run and what hand signal to give so Lizette can go through the course. And I feel like a giant klutz. Once we were doing a combo of the ring, tunnel , weave poles and table ....and I got so flustered when we got to the tunnel I couldn't remember what it was called. I gave the hand signal for which end for her to go through and wanted to say tunnel and couldn't remember for the life of me what it was called.

So I find it a workout physically and mentally for us and the dog too!

outwest · 12-29-2011, 09:31 PM

Yah, I kept messing up calling the things the wrong thing, too, or I would forget to do the hand signal. I am learning along with her.

debjen · 01-01-2012, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by outwest

Yah, I kept messing up calling the things the wrong thing, too, or I would forget to do the hand signal. I am learning along with her.

Hate to tell you that I've been doing agility for about 13 years and still mess up and tell my dogs tunnel when we are heading for the table or other such obstacle or move in a different way then I really want them to go..LOL..luckily the dogs are usually smarter than I am