Instant Agility

We won’t be building tunnels or chutes here at Instant Agility.Here then are the results of my researching in looking for the least expensive:
Affordable Agility (affordableagility.com) has tunnels, barrels, and chutes. Their competition-quality items are the cheapest I have found on the internet. They also have “practice” versions, which are not as sturdy.  I believe [...]

There are lots of ways to train the weave poles. What we have here are channel weaves. You start out with the weaves wide open and run the dog down the middle. Then you gradually close them until eventually your dog is doing them all lined up.
You will want to take a few weeks to [...]

The ladder is useful for teaching your dog to notice where they are putting their back feet. This is good to do before they get on the dogwalk or teeter. To get your dog to go over the ladder, just drop treats between the rungs. My dogs, after a few trips through with treats, [...]

This is the easiest of all obstacles to train. You just put your dog on leash and lead them over, then reward. A piece of cake!
Here are tips from Tess & Kipp:
Start low, so your dog does not cheat and go under it.
Use a variety of things as jumps, so that nothing will be a [...]

Having Fun with Agility by Margaret H. Bonham
This book explains how to teach your dog the obstacles and handling. It is meant for fun (which is what we do here), and provides some fun ideas for simple courses in the yard that include things other than regulation agility equipment (Tess loves the wading pool on [...]

Once your dog will jump over something, it is easier to get them to jump through the hoop, so teach the bar jump first.
Lower your tire or hoop all the way to the ground. You can’t do this with the hoop jumps described here, but you can make very short supports and have several heights [...]