Agility Training-went well!
So we took the pup to her first agility training class today, and it went really well!
She thought it was the dog park at first, and tried to play with all the other dogs and pulling on the leash and everybody thinking we have an out of control nut.
But the instructor was really awesome, and even though we were late (i have issues) she quick taught us what she had already taught the class and Shao New got it really quickly--she even focused on us which shocked us a bit since their were barking dogs and it was 87 degrees outside. She even went off leash at times during the weave and tunnel and didn't run away afterwards!
We did however have to be a team, so even though we had brought the camera, we didn't get the chance to take any pics, esp at the tunnels, when I was in one end and runing down the side and Matthew was at the other end calling her over to the table.
All in all it was a really fun afternoon...don't think we'll get to go again until Sept as they do not run the agility group if it's 90+ degrees outside, but it was great and I highly recommend it to other Nihon Ken slaves!
PS_hehehe once we master agility I would love to find a fly ball group! oohh the fun....
She thought it was the dog park at first, and tried to play with all the other dogs and pulling on the leash and everybody thinking we have an out of control nut.
But the instructor was really awesome, and even though we were late (i have issues) she quick taught us what she had already taught the class and Shao New got it really quickly--she even focused on us which shocked us a bit since their were barking dogs and it was 87 degrees outside. She even went off leash at times during the weave and tunnel and didn't run away afterwards!
We did however have to be a team, so even though we had brought the camera, we didn't get the chance to take any pics, esp at the tunnels, when I was in one end and runing down the side and Matthew was at the other end calling her over to the table.
All in all it was a really fun afternoon...don't think we'll get to go again until Sept as they do not run the agility group if it's 90+ degrees outside, but it was great and I highly recommend it to other Nihon Ken slaves!
PS_hehehe once we master agility I would love to find a fly ball group! oohh the fun....
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Agility is addictive for those who partake on a regular basis.
Enjoy your journey with Shao New, it is pretty amazing what they will do for you when they are having fun.
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Flyball looks awesome - does Shao New have that sort of drive?!
http://www.doggieuk9.com/Flyball.htm
http://nafadb.flyball.org/cgi-public/pubutil?BREEDDET&BREED=Shiba+Inu
Stats for shibas that participated in some flyball tournaments. If you look, most of them don't participate anymore.
Heck, we can just learn the basics, train the dogs, and have our own mini-tournaments within the group (kind of like how we have the meet ups)
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Congrats on the agility training. It really is a lot of fun. I am biased, but I think the Shibas grasp the concept of the training much faster than many of the other traditional agility breeds, they just are slower sometimes in the repition and doing it on request part. Yeh, it's nearly impossible to get pics when it's just you and the dog without holding other people up or weirding the dog out "Mom, stop taking pictures of me. It's embarassing and my friends are watching!"
I'll look over the links Beth provided, that would be cool if we just learned some basics and did our own crazy flyball team....b/c yes, Joe/Dawn, our two would probably cause trouble in a real tournament LOL. "We won b/c our dogs stole your tennis balls...muhahahaha" I think we need 4 dogs for a team..*eyes Tetsu and Tikaani to complete the LI forum team*....ROFL I just hand an image of us losing and we'll send Tikaani in to distract the other team
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We can form our own mini club and just do recreational sport events. Just practice agility, flyball, whatever without really focusing on tournament participation (unless you count those family reunion-esk game events as tournaments). Make the focus more on having fun, where any mistakes are just "oops, no biggy, let's keep playing", rather than beating the other person.
Kristin, I dunno, we might have a pretty messed up team by then..but hey, a team nonetheless!