Instant Agility

I just thought I’d share this. I’m sure many of you already know about it, but just in case you don’t…

We have mailed off our forms for our Expert Trick Dog titles.  Who knew all the border collie brain games would come with TITLES! I didn’t know it was possible to get titles for shy dogs who can’t handle crowds! How awesome. And WOW! We know over 40 tricks!

My parents were hugely impressed when we demonstrated about 35 tricks for them. They had no idea what all they knew.  Even Roger was impressed with the double hoop trick, and he sees them do crazy stuff all day. I highly recommend these books by Kyra Sundance. I’m merely a fan and we get nothing in exchange for mentioning these books or this program here.

What I love best about Kyra Sundance is how she just wants you and your dog to do fun stuff together – whatever fun stuff YOU want to do. The best advice I’ve ever received was about how to make use of advice you get from other people — take what you can use, and throw the rest away. This is really what she teaches in her books. What is fun for YOU and YOUR DOG is what is important – not what other people think you need to do.

Even with my dogs’ limitations (mostly mine – we don’t want our dogs getting into the fridge or turning on all the lights ), we have learned a bunch of cool things over the years. And all this with lure/reward training. Go lure/reward! Fun training without that awful clicker noise!

I’ m a huge fan of trick training for dogs to keep their brains in shape (and to wear them out!). To us, everything is a trick. And some of the tricks we used for these titles are agility things – the teeter, weave poles, directed jumping, hoop jump, stay/wait, recall, and the tunnel.

Go forth and trick train!