Agility

Just before christmas we started Kali in agility classes. She gets to do all kinds of neat stuff in agility... it's basically obstacle courses. The beginner agility class basically familiarizes the dogs with the equipment... A-frames, tunnels, chutes (a fabric tunnel), dog-walks (narrow bridges), jumping through tires, over obstacles, weave poles and teeter totters! Kali graduated beginner agility in January, and last weekend she graduated from intermediate... or rather I did... Intermediate agility mostly trains the handler how to give the proper signals to the dogs so they navigate the course in the proper order. We begin advanced agility this weekend, which will be more handler training. If we're still in Kingston this summer we're hoping to go into some beginner "fun" courses since the rules aren't as strict for these competitions. I'm hoping to get pictures of Kali on some of the equipment, but I doubt that will happen until Tom's back in town... and probably not until we get to practice outside because it's kind of close quarters with 5 other teams to worry about on the floor!