Rum - Weaving - Dog Agility

Here is Rum from 12 months to 18 months, learning how to weave. We did about 5 mins inline at 12 months then put them away until he was 14 months and worked on them once a week. When he was about 15-16 months we did 5 minutes every day. I started luring with a tennis ball flinger and gradually moved it to the side of the weaves and then behind my back & then moved it away - phasing it out slowly. He is doing 12 weaves in 2.8 seconds. MORE IN DEPTH DESCRIPTION I only did it twice at 12 months in terms of him following the ball flinger through the weaves, he's such a big dog so I left it till he was about 14 months to do any more. So how I started was to get him following the ball flinger generally, then flicking it out (not a long way, just to give the reward). He was quite quick to pick this up as had already been taught the target stick. Then we started with upright weaves, we started with 6, but moved quickly onto 12. So basically just got him following the flinger through the weaves, works well as the dog is not then relying on following your arm and you aren't bending over all the time either. So when he was getting them quite well following the flinger I could then start to fade out the flinger, this was only when he was weaving consistently and fairly quickly and on both sides. Fading out is quite easy with the flinger as you can move onto having the flinger running alongside the weaves and just giving it a little movement in towards the weaves when the dog goes in, so the flinger is still moving a little reminding the dog as to what it has to do but it isn't actually going in and out of every weave anymore. Once dog is confident at that stage you can then run the flinger alongside the weaves without flicking it about so dog knows it is still there but isn't relying on the movement. Again once dog is confident on that you can move onto having the flinger behind your back and from there you no longer really need it. You can teach entries at speed as you can run the flinger into the first weave (if that makes sense!) and continue from there, you can also do recalls with the flinger.

Channel: Pets & Animals
Uploaded: May 25, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Author: ginauk84

Length: 02:18
Rating: 4.93
Views: 4769

Tags: agility  dog  learn  lure  sable  sheepdog  UK  weave  weaving  welsh  

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