Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Starbuck's latest agility adventure!
Starbuck had some one on one time with me at a local trial. I usually travel with the whole crew but sometimes it's fun to give Starbuck some special time.
Here is one of my favorite pictures from the trial:
Here is one of my favorite pictures from the trial:
Yep - that's me and Starbuck! Notice that I am running in my work clothes! I had to work that day so my trainer was running her for me. I got out of work and showed up at the trial right as they finished walking Time 2 Beat. I didn't even have a chance to change so I ran her in my work clothes with my hair flying everywhere - and we won!!
Starbuck has some killer A-frames - she just hovers over the apex lands at the bottom of the blue and does one short step into the yellow and then she's off!
Here video of a couple of our runs:
Doesn't Starbuck have the cutest butt? :)
Well, hope everyone is enjoying December!
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Dog Agility Blog Event Day - Backyard Training
Okay - I cannot figure out how to join the Dog Agility Blog group (http://dog-agility-blog-events.posterous.com/pages/backyard-training) - stupid Yahoo Group errors!
But I'm going to blog about Backyard Training anyway.
So.... my yard is basically a very large hill. We're talking about a 20-30 degree steep hill. This means there is no way I can do agility in my backyard. The only training I can do in my backyard is to let the dogs race around like crazy which helps with their conditioning.
The other agility training I can do at home is tight jump wraps in my basement. We have a room that is 20'x20' - really not big enough to practice any speed but I do have two tiny jumps that I made and a tunnel so I use the tunnel to work on jump wraps.
While I can't do that much agility training - we can work on conditioning at home! I have several different exercise balls (round, peanut, donut, paw pods) that I use to build up the girls muscles. And I add in some fun tricks to work on coordination and teaching the dogs that failing is not a big deal.
Here's a little video that show some of the conditioning work we do along with them racing around in the backyard:
Anyone have any other ideas on agility stuff that one can do without having a yard?
But I'm going to blog about Backyard Training anyway.
So.... my yard is basically a very large hill. We're talking about a 20-30 degree steep hill. This means there is no way I can do agility in my backyard. The only training I can do in my backyard is to let the dogs race around like crazy which helps with their conditioning.
The other agility training I can do at home is tight jump wraps in my basement. We have a room that is 20'x20' - really not big enough to practice any speed but I do have two tiny jumps that I made and a tunnel so I use the tunnel to work on jump wraps.
While I can't do that much agility training - we can work on conditioning at home! I have several different exercise balls (round, peanut, donut, paw pods) that I use to build up the girls muscles. And I add in some fun tricks to work on coordination and teaching the dogs that failing is not a big deal.
Here's a little video that show some of the conditioning work we do along with them racing around in the backyard:
Anyone have any other ideas on agility stuff that one can do without having a yard?
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