Agility

Ahsoka was thrilled to start another agility class today at Maui Humane Society.

Ahsoka Agility

Ahsoka and I have been taking agility classes for about a year now.  She really loves going to agility class.  Agility is a great way to bong with your dog and especially great for high energy dogs like Ahsoka.  If your dog has way too much energy to burn, look into an agility class in your area.  There are even ways you can practice at home.  We bought poles that stick in the grass to use as weave poles.  We have a hula hoop that we use for the agility hoop.  And it is easy to create jumps with a simple broom and canned food.

Agility is definitely trial and error.

Oops.  Ha ha!

Now we're getting it!

She did a good job!

Agility with Ella & Louis

Ella & Louis doing some agility in Launiupoko.

Ella (1 year old German Shepherd).

Louis (3 year old Shepherd mix).

Ella doing some agility with her dad.

Ahsoka agility

In this video you can see me working with Ahsoka on getting some distance during our agility run.  This is important to do because the better control the handler has over the dog, the easier it will be to increase your dog's agility skills and performance.  Ultimately the handler wants to be able to direct their dog where to run on the course from any position, close or far.  This video shows the first day we started working on this.  You can tell Ahsoka is little confused but she did very well.

Ahsoka agility

Here we are working on tunnels and weave polls.

Ahsoka agility

Ahsoka working some weave polls.

Agility with Louis

Here is some video of me helping teach Louis some agility.  He is still learning the seesaw and weave polls.  He's doing very well and seems to be having fun.

Agility with Ella & Louis

Videos of Ella & Louis learning dog agility.

Ella learning agility jumps and tunnel.

Louis learning agility jumps.

Ella learning combinations.

Ella learning weave polls.

Rainbow Agility

Caught a sweet rainbow during some training in Launiupoko.

Rainbow Ella.

Ella and dad learning agility jumps.

Louis and mom learning agility jumps.