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I have done a T-Touch workshop before TSD, good thinking! I might have to pull my notes out. A mallet was suggested last night for controlling his "enthusiasm" And yes, definitely noticed your avatar, I've been stalking you in the Springer & Dally thread looking at pics ;) Can't wait to hear how you get on in Retrieving with her! I really, really like the breed. I was lucky enough to get to a Retriever & Spaniel Field trial this year and saw some lovely working Springers. I certainly could be tempted one day!!

Hello all agility training folk! Can I send you a feral brown dog to train for me, pretty please?? I fear I have created/encouraged/enabled a monster. Polo is now 3.5 years old and becoming more feral with each agility run. At this age my Vizsla had his Masters titles but Polo can't even weave consistently Of course the dog is not to blame, his agility "training" didn't start until he was much older than Rogan as we were concentrating on "gundoggy" stuff and Polo being a big dog with very little self control or regard for his body, I wanted him phyiscally mature before any real equipment work. Polo has plenty of speed, he does nothing in life at half speed, but he doesn't have obstacle focus The further he gets around a course, the worse he gets, usually high pitch screaming by the 7-8th obstacle. It amuses the judges and crowd no end, and if I hear "he's enthusiastic" once more I might scream too If only I could harness some of that enthusiasm for myself to actually train him! Yes, I know I need to pull him from trials and do some serious training, I know we're just rehearsing poor performance now. He is just so different to what I've trained before!! So if anyone wanted a challenge..... ;)

The Croydon Obedience trial can be entered online via the Victorian Agility website http://www.agilitytrials.info/croydonobedience.htm

love these threads

It sure does! There are 28 trials planned for next year in the ACT, including our monthly evening ribbon trials.

Great stuff RubyStar & Millie!

Of course you can Rileys mum! There are two AgCh GSPs so they certainly can do it.... just don't look at my Polo as an example ;)

Won't make any difference for us, Polo stays with his mummy anyway, doesn't give a toss about loose dogs ;) Maybe you need to bring Howie while Polo is there, so that Howie isn't bothered 'cause the dogs are going to Polo

Soon as that distracting GSP gets promoted :raspberry: That aint going to happen anytime soon Maybe you need to work on training with distractions Polo is tested every week, he seems to be the loose dog attractor

Hey guys, remember this is a list of breeds trialing in agility in the ACT in 2010 only. If your breed isn't listed it doesn't mean they don't or can't do agility! Or that we haven't had them trial in the ACT in past years either! I was happy to see such a long list of different breeds and hope it continues to grow Not too distant future hey poodlefan, you gonna come to training?? ;)

Agree. My dog even had a reaction to the yearly heartworm injection and I was advised not to give it to him again (not that I needed that advice, I would have chosen not to anyway). I do find this survey disappointing and compeltely biased and must admit I'm a little disappoionted that it is promoted so much on Dogzonline...

Same here. None of the options applied. I choose not to socialise my dogs with strange dogs.

Oh gawd gusmum, so sorry to read about Gus. Give him a big hug and I hope he's feeling better soon. What a gorgeous photo of Gus sniffin da breeze

Yep Hope to see you both back next year too!!

They don't need to be 16 to do that though do they For me it would depend on how Gus copes with being at home with someone else, and how he copes with travelling. 12.5 year old Flynn doesn't travel anymore due to a bad back that can not tolerate extended confinement and I'm away on weekends quite often over the peak trialing season. I am lucky that I have a great friend in Poodlefan who looks after him at her place where he is absolutely happy and relaxed and thoroughly spoiled. On most occasions he manages to fulfill his thieving needs by stealing some quantity of food not properly locked down Some dogs however do not cope as they get older with being away from their people and can tolerate travelling and change of environment quite well if they're with their owner. If that was the case, I would take my dog whenever possible....

skip, the Ibizans are owned by the one woman, she has trialed 3 of them with one getting it's Excellent titles. The current ones are in Novice and Excellent. wuffles, I was surprised we only have one Aussie trialing locally too! She is a lovely dog though, got her Masters titles this year. There are more Aussies trialing in NSW & VIC though.

Not in the ACT :D

The topic of different/unusual breeds sparked me to tally what breeds we've had compete at my local clubs Agility trials this year. Some of the breeds people were listing as 'unusual' seem to be fairly common here, or so I thought! ACT is a small state and our trials aren't huge, but over the year we do get interstate trialers and our club hosts the most and largest of the ACT trials. So for interest this year the breeds we've had enter our trials in order of popularity are: 46 x Border Collie (7 Associate Registered and several others Sporting Register) 15 x Kelpie (7 Associate Registered and most others Sporting Register) 11 x Cavalier King Charles Spaniel 8 x Golden Retriever 6 x German Shorthaired Pointer 5 x Shetland Sheepdog 5 x Mini Schnauzer 4 x Toy Poodle 4 x Puli 4 x Papillon 4 x Labrador 4 x Koolie 4 x Brittany 3 x NSDTR 3 x Labrador Cross (oodle) 3 x Hungarian Vizsla 3 x Dobermann 3 x Cocker Spaniel 3 x ACD X 2 x Staffy X 2 x Ridgeback 2 x Mini Poodle 2 x Min Pin 2 x Ibizan Hound 2 x German Shepherd (both Associate Registered) 2 x English Springer Spaniel 2 x Dalmatian 2 x Corgi (Pembroke) 2 x Cocker Spaniel (American) 2 x Bichon X Poodle 2 x Border Collie X 2 x ACD 1 x Skye Terrier 1 x Silky Terrier 1 x Schipperke 1 x Poodle X 1 x Papillon X 1 x OES 1 x Maltese 1 x Koolie X 1 x Kelpie X 1 x JRT 1 x Irish Red & White Setter 1 x GSP X 1 x GSD X 1 x Greyhound X 1 x Flat Coated Retriever 1 x Field Spaniel 1 x Boxer X 1 x Border Terrier 1 x Belgian Shepherd X 1 x Belgian Shepherd (Groenendael) 1 x Bearded Collie 1 x Australian Shepherd Plus about 5 "unidentified associate" breeds and I may have missed a couple of dogs from our last trial. Interesting to see that the Cavalier is such a popular agility dog although 3 of the 11 do belong to one local trialer.

Fun topic, I've enjoyed reading people's history of dog sports! At 18 I finally convinced my parents to let me get a dog and along came Bodie a Chocolate Labrador puppy. When Bodie was a 9 month old, 30+kg out of control chewing monster it was off to 'dog school' to learn some obedience! It was that or the pound my Dad threatened. Bodie and I progressed through the Obedience levels at the Club and made it into the trialing classes. Being a college student I was a little less dedicated to training at that age than I am now and often turned up to our Sunday morning training with a hangover Sadly Bodie died quite young and never made it into the trial ring, however he planted the seed. My next dog was Flynn the Vizsla who arrivedin 1998 and I was determined to compete with him. With a little more knowledge of dog training he progressed through the obedience classes very quickly and we found ourselves in the trialing class when he was just 10-11 months old and far too immature to think about trialing. Around that time I discovered Agility at the club and signed up with Flynn. Obedience took a back seat. We entered our first agility trial when Flynn was 2 years old and had our first taste of success. Within the month he gained his AD title and we were hooked We did go back to obedience and he breezed through Novice but spent a lot longer in Open to finally get his CDX. We trialed in UD a few times, but no passses. When Flynn was about 4 it looked like he was going to be forced to retire from agility and I was devastated, so Rogan the Vizsla joined the family to hopefully be my next agility dog. Thankfully with lots of rest and treatment Flynn did get back into agility and had lots of success gaining his Masters Agiltiy & Jumping titles and many of the new Open & Games titles that came in when he was about 8 years old. Rogan has gone on to be my first (and probably only!) AgCh & Dual Ch. I discovered Gundog competitions with Rogan and competed in Retrieving for several years to gain his RRD, only the 3rd Vizsla to do so. My increased interest in the Gundog sports saw Polo the GSP arrive next who has excelled in Retrieving and is teaching me about Field Work! He's also been the best Obedience competition dog I've had even though I didn't even know if we'd do competition obedience when I got him. So each dog has taken me somewhere different with dog sports and the journey continues

We have a number of less common breeds doing agility around here (and several Cockers :p) We have several Ibizan Hounds doing agility, one has made it into the Master class. An Irish Red & White Setter who is going great and has both his Novice titles now, and his CCD. A Skye Terrier now in Excellent Jumping. Puli. We've had several trial around here and that can be great! This dog has his Masters titles. Greyhound. Runs in Sydney. Schipperke, has his Novice titles. Portuguese Water Dog. And even Beagles (who don't even need to touch the equipment! )

I paid about $400 here for hip & elbow x-rays. Scoring was on top of that. I could probably get it done cheaper but I prefer to go to this vet that is experienced in taking x-rays for scoring.

Not colour, but coat type. Longhaired Vizslas, not to be confused with Wirehaired Vizslas which a seperate and acceptable breed.

My Whippet spends up to 8 hours inside a few days a week. I go home some lunch times, but not always. He copes just fine, doesn't even rush out to the loo when I get home and he doesn't get a walk before work (I'm not a morning person either). I wouldn't do it with my older boy as he can't hold on that long anymore, but for the younger dogs it's not an issue. I say try it and see how it goes!

Hi Col, welcome to DOL, be sure to drop in on the Vizsla thread with lots of Vizsla puppy pics Your puppy sounds completely normal. At her age she has a small bladder and although it may be inconsistent, she will likely not make it through the night. As long as she is releiving herself and then going back to bed when you get up to her I would continue what you're doing. If she is just getting you up to have a game, then I'd start the ignore process. Please, do not "bang the door with a shoe when she yelps, and to do this every 10 mins". You will probably jsut frighten her and have to clean up a mess

Congratulations leopuppy and Leo!!! I am a great supporter of versatility in dogs, expeically when it includes what they were bred to do!! Great stuff.