When you do "table"...

[AgilityPup]

Do you have to have your dog in a down, or just on the table?

Around here, in tirals, your dog has to have the 2 front elbows down, meaning, if the dog wants, it can lift it's bum , I think, anyway.

SO, what do you do?

 

[adojrts]

If its a AAC trial, the table requirement is a down (elbows touching and bum down) for a consecutive count of 5 and don't leave before you here the O of GO!! If an elbow or bum comes up, the judge will stop the count, when the dog resumes the down position the count starts again, this is not faulted.
If they put a foot on and then off - faulted
If they jump on and slide off - faulted
but the dog in Starters only can run around behind the table and get on without being faulted, in all other levels it is faulted as a refusal which equals 5
Hope that helps and is the info you were looking for.
Lynn

 

[AgilityPup]

Thanks! I knew about the sliding off the table thing, I ran a Golden GDS cross twice, and had her under the time limit, like way under, everything good, BUT our tables! She kept sliding off, so we didn't get q's other wise, I would be ana dvanced Jr. Handler right now

 

[adojrts]

One method that has worked very well for me to stop dogs from sliding off the table from too much speed, is to start recalling them to the table with the handler standing close behind it. You can also add other obstacles with the table as the last one. As the dog learns to grip and do an auto down, the handler can start changing positions around the table and then adding distance and then finally sending them to the table. You can also place the table near a wall or fence in the being and you can also lay chicken wire or x-pens on the ground on three sides.

 

[AgilityPup]

Thanks for those tips, however, speed isn't throwing Zoey off the table yet, and the problem with the dog I ran was that she had just been put in Vets, so her table went DOWN for her, and she kept thinking it was going to be higher, so she went faster. I did try stoping her before she went on, but she ran right past me,