agility

Agility, learning the ropes/jumps

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Last night we had agility class. There was just one other person there, and she had two Whippets with her. One was quite old, so didn’t do too many activities. We started out class by doing circle jumps (I think that’s what they were called!) where jumps were set up […]

Agility initiation

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Today was our first agility class with our trainer Susan. Before I went to Ohio, we had a private lesson to assess whether he”d be able to join the class. Today was our first time in the regular class. The drive there was stressful, as there was a big accident […]

Precocious Pre-Agility 2

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Last night, we had our last pre-agility class, and Brad got some great video of it.  It was the 7th week, which is a bonus week, so we just set up some courses and had at it!  It was really fun! We did various courses involving three jumps, a tire […]

Veronica holds a tired Hestia with the American flag in the background
Closeup of Hestia, with black around one eye and white around the other and black long ears

Double parked and double run 6

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We had week 6 of our agility class last night, and actually got to run two courses! Brad got video of them both, plus a few bloopers 🙂  And you get to see my sweater, which I knitted myself 🙂  It is pink Malabrigo with brown rabbits and celtic designs […]

Pre-Agility Perfection 2

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Last night we had week 5 of our pre-agility class.  Hestia rocked it!  It was so much fun—you should check out the video! We started with the pinwheel jumps, which is when you have three jumps in a circle.  Hestia did a pretty good job going over the jumps without […]

Hestia jumping through the tire jump
Veronica directing Hestia through a small red tunnel

Of course we’re learning 1

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Yesterday was week 4 of pre-agility, and Brad made another video!  We started out with four jumps in a row.  Hestia had no problem with this at all!  Then the teachers started angling the jumps and offsetting them between turns so that the dog would have to move side to […]

Will wobble for treats 2

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On Wednesday we had our second pre-agility class, and of course Brad made a great video of it.  I was having a high pain day, so I loaded up on painkillers, and away we went! We had two rings for class this week.  We split the group of us in […]

Veronica in a turquoise dress holding Hestia inside the ring
Hestia sitting on the wobble board, tongue hanging out

Pre-agility prep school 2

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Today was Hestia’s first Pre-Agility class!  We had a LOAD of fun!  We started out with targeting, and while Hestia targets to my hand very easily, and to a plastic lid in my hand, whenever I put the target on the floor she just lays on top of it instead […]