Well, maybe not. I am a terribly impatient person after all, though I think I'm pretty patient with agility (so far!).
So I've been working with Popper using a 6 weave pole set. At first, I was using the luring method to get him to weave. Well, of course, he focused entirely upon the food and not what he was doing. So I bent the poles and tried that method. He didn't get much better.
So I did BAD Agility's method of using body language and stepping in the right spot at the right time, and after two tries, he caught on and now weaves through the poles I'd say 90% of the time without ANY luring at all.
So, here's my questions....
He's not particularly fast yet, which I am assuming (?) that he will get faster and faster, which is okay with me whether he's fast or slower. Of course a lot of it is how energetic *I* am, that definitely plays a big role. I've seen dogs weaving, he's certainly not the slowest.
I can't seem to get any DISTANCE from him on the weaves... how can I go about this? Right now I have to be right beside him.
Going with the distance thing, he doesn't know his left from his right, apparently. He *usually* enters the right direction... is this something he'll gain with experience?
Anyhow, thanks for your continued help... he really loves agility and it's a great way to spend time with him. I took a video yesterday of him weaving (and oh god I can see all the things I do wrong, so I may video myself more!!) that I might post as soon as photobucket decides to cooperate...
Ooooh one more question - there is an upcoming agility trial in December at my club.... we have not done teeters or weaves yet in class, but, do you suppose I could enter him in SOMETHING? Just for a little bit of fun/experience? I was reading the rules, and you could do a run-through with leash (he could *probably* do it off-leash, but as he's never done it before I'd be more comfortable on-leash), you just didn't get a time for doing it. Which I don't care about much anyway. Too soon, do you think?
So I've been working with Popper using a 6 weave pole set. At first, I was using the luring method to get him to weave. Well, of course, he focused entirely upon the food and not what he was doing. So I bent the poles and tried that method. He didn't get much better.
So I did BAD Agility's method of using body language and stepping in the right spot at the right time, and after two tries, he caught on and now weaves through the poles I'd say 90% of the time without ANY luring at all.
So, here's my questions....
He's not particularly fast yet, which I am assuming (?) that he will get faster and faster, which is okay with me whether he's fast or slower. Of course a lot of it is how energetic *I* am, that definitely plays a big role. I've seen dogs weaving, he's certainly not the slowest.
I can't seem to get any DISTANCE from him on the weaves... how can I go about this? Right now I have to be right beside him.
Going with the distance thing, he doesn't know his left from his right, apparently. He *usually* enters the right direction... is this something he'll gain with experience?
Anyhow, thanks for your continued help... he really loves agility and it's a great way to spend time with him. I took a video yesterday of him weaving (and oh god I can see all the things I do wrong, so I may video myself more!!) that I might post as soon as photobucket decides to cooperate...
Ooooh one more question - there is an upcoming agility trial in December at my club.... we have not done teeters or weaves yet in class, but, do you suppose I could enter him in SOMETHING? Just for a little bit of fun/experience? I was reading the rules, and you could do a run-through with leash (he could *probably* do it off-leash, but as he's never done it before I'd be more comfortable on-leash), you just didn't get a time for doing it. Which I don't care about much anyway. Too soon, do you think?