Ruby and agility - the video!

Ruby Red · 12-06-2009, 08:07 AM

Here’s the video – dear oh dear – I don’t know, I love the fact that it is nowhere near perfect – we do it just for fun – the fact that we’ve been doing it for over a year, just has to be overlooked really!!!! I have to start off slowly with her over the jumps or else she jumps up at me [if you look closely at the jumps towards the end she does this a couple of times when I pick the pace up a bit]. LOL – I went completely wrong too and took the wrong jump, and Madam, well, she did the closed tunnel all throughout the class and then decided she wasn’t going to do it for the video shot – typical!!!

http://s906.photobucket.com/albums/a...t=SSL12388.flv
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AussieGirl · 12-06-2009, 06:28 PM

good girl Ruby! I think she did wonderfully

, and she looks like she is having fun (thats the most important thing). What was the hardest part to teach her? I'm guessing the weaves, she did a great job of them but I can imagine what it would be like to teach our Ruby them

we have a tunnel at home that the kids have been teaching her to go through and it was a laugh to watch at first lol she's got the hang of it now but if there is no treat involved she wont "put herself out" to do it he he

KeeperBoy · 12-06-2009, 06:51 PM

What a doll. Do you ever want to trial her? Keepers is still mastering the weaves, we taught them by moving them apart into two lines and then slowing bringing them to one line. We still have them about an inch apart to help him out.

Ruby Red · 12-07-2009, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by AussieGirl

good girl Ruby! I think she did wonderfully

, and she looks like she is having fun (thats the most important thing). What was the hardest part to teach her? I'm guessing the weaves.......

The weaves we battle with every week, and tbh, she kind of knows what to do but loses her concentration with it. The hardest thing to teach her was the dog walk. At my other class they have a regulation sized one which is quite high. Ruby was so nervous of it the first few times she went on that I told the trainer to leave it and I would get a smaller one to practice on at home with her, but even on the lower one she’s not happy. She’s all legs everywhere and because of the narrowness of the walk it frightens her when she can’t feel the walk with her foot and then she panics [and then I panic.........]. Anyway, we miss this out at classes now – I don’t see the point in forcing her to do it when she isn’t happy, plus, I’m too scared she’ll fall of it and hurt herself.

If your kids want to try weaving with your Ruby – the garden centres sell canes - usually used as plant supports, they’re brill for this and very cheap too!

Ruby Red · 12-07-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by KeeperBoy

Keepers is still mastering the weaves, we taught them by moving them apart into two lines and then slowing bringing them to one line. We still have them about an inch apart to help him out.

I was taught from the beginning to put a treat on Ruby’s nose and lure her through the weaves with it – I have never seen the method you describe but it sounds interesting.

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Do you ever want to trial her?

No fear! I have enough trouble trying to get through the class without putting myself through trials! No, honestly Andrea, Jakey would have been brilliant if I had wanted to trial him, but Ruby is too easily distracted by everything going on around her, plus one week she’ll do something then the next week she’ll have ‘forgotten’....or she won’t do it [not sure which?] – as with the closed tunnel in the video – she’s been doing that for months...... The other side of it Andrea is that I am no good under pressure – to get the best run with the dog you really need to think fast about where to put yourself so you are in the right place to call the dog onto the next obstacle – I’m hopeless at that!
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KeeperBoy · 12-07-2009, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Ruby Red

I was taught from the beginning to put a treat on Ruby’s nose and lure her through the weaves with it – I have never seen the method you describe but it sounds interesting.

No fear! I have enough trouble trying to get through the class without putting myself through trials! No, honestly Andrea, Jakey would have been brilliant if I had wanted to trial him, but Ruby is too easily distracted by everything going on around her, plus one week she’ll do something then the next week she’ll have ‘forgotten’....or she won’t do it [not sure which?] – as with the closed tunnel in the video – she’s been doing that for months...... The other side of it Andrea is that I am no good under pressure – to get the best run with the dog you really need to think fast about where to put yourself so you are in the right place to call the dog onto the next obstacle – I’m hopeless at that!
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Talking about her level of distraction, you could be talking about Keepers. We joke that a beetle outside burps and he must stop everything to check it out. Boxers are so funny.

Ruby Red · 12-07-2009, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by KeeperBoy

Talking about her level of distraction, you could be talking about Keepers. We joke that a beetle outside burps and he must stop everything to check it out. Boxers are so funny.

LOL, LOL, LOL – yes, or a fly flying about - definately more interesting than whatever she's meant to be doing!