Agility Session Two notes

agility foundations session two exercises

Calling our dogs over the jump to end up at our sides.

• Start with your dog sitting on the other side of the jump, instead of facing your dog face to the side.

• With the hand closest to the jump, point to your dog and cue them to jump, as they approach the jump drop your hand drawing your hand to your side as you step forward one step.

• When you finish your dog should end up standing at your side, between you and the jump with you both facing the same direction.

Contact Training Foundations: step one is getting your dog comfortable waiting on the board, two feet on the ground, two back feet on the board. Have reward forward and work on sending the dog to reward with a release cue.

Adding more steps on the board, working on shaping dog to walk the whole plank before going to reward. At this stage do not worry about having them stop at the end, just work their understanding that walking across the board gets them a reward. Be sure to have your rewards out in front of the end of the board so they focus forward and not on you. Keep your food in a container they need your help getting a treat from so they don’t get food or toy if they skip the board.

Working on fading yourself away from the board to be sure the dog starts targeting the board without your body pressure.

Don’t rush to add speed or end of board rules. Work the end of board behaviors each as it’s own game. We want to work on 3 aspects of the contact training as separate pieces!

• Luring dog into the 2 on 2 off position so two back feet are on board, front feet on ground

• Waiting at the end of the board for a release

• Finding the board on their own and walking across it to a reward