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Post by jamiehalverson on Aug 18, 2014 9:15:25 GMT -5
Has anyone tried this? I signed up for classes starting tomorrow. Not sure if Yogi is cut out for it, since he is not a high energy/high drive dog, or a herding dog lol, but I need to find something fun for us to do and take a break from obedience classes.
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Post by emilys on Aug 18, 2014 16:58:33 GMT -5
Has anyone tried this? I signed up for classes starting tomorrow. Not sure if Yogi is cut out for it, since he is not a high energy/high drive dog, or a herding dog lol, but I need to find something fun for us to do and take a break from obedience classes. I tried it and my SBT did fine, because he already knew some distance work from agility. But I didn't particularly enjoy it. It was just too "herding dog-ish" for me. You should definitely try it, because you never know what will float your boat, or your dog's boat. Have you tried nosework? Most of the pit bull breeds seem to love that sport and do really well at it.
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Post by michele5611 on Aug 20, 2014 8:38:50 GMT -5
Can't wait to hear all about it and how you and Yogi did.
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Post by jamiehalverson on Aug 20, 2014 12:17:41 GMT -5
It was not quite as fun as the videos on youtube make it look, lots of foundation work before any ball pushing happens But it WAS fun and Yogi did really well. Only one herding dog in the whole class, which I thought interesting. There were 3 mixes, looked like labs, a sheepdog of some sort, a JRT and us. Even coming straight from Obedience class with only 45 minutes in between, Yogi was on point and picked it up pretty quickly. The hardest thing was the "backup" because the signal is the same as for the front in obedience. We really had to work hard to figure out how to keep him standing and then "backup" instead of sitting square in front of me... we definitely have to work on that one. I felt terrible that he was trying so hard to do what he thought I wanted, especially since recalls were the last thing we did in obedience right before. Oh well, we'll figure it out!
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