Paws2Play Agility for Fun Training

02/20/2022

Congratulations to a couple of Paws2Play students on their awards from the American Stockdog Association. This is a huge honor for Ashley and Connie. Paws2Play is so proud of both of you.

02/07/2022

I did not know that xylitol is being renamed as birch sugar on some food labels. Xylitol aka birch sugar is extremely toxic to our pets. It can be found in some ice creams, peanut butters, and other food products. Be aware.

https://vetmedbiosci.colostate.edu/vth/animal-health/birch-sugar-is-the-same-thing-as-xylitol-and-its-toxic-to-dogs/?fbclid=IwAR0RSD82iuwcfE7-4yTLjJ8jjlli5sRCkNLZ4tmM0kAgymT6f_AsqtCxTyo

Labeled as “xylitol” within the ingredients list for most products, the same plant-derived substance can also be identified as “birch sugar” or “birch sap” in others.

01/30/2022

More chronicles of Bella. We are now using the barrels to teach “distance”. Donna is “sending” Bella to the barrel rather than running with her the whole way. After we have made it really fun and rewarding to go around the barrel, we start increasing the distance in small increments while making it a fun game. Here’s Bella’s lesson today doing a figure 8 around two barrels at the beginning and at the end.

01/28/2022

Our teeter week continues. This is Gemma, a Phu Quoc (Vietnamese Ridgeback), doing her teeter with a great finish position at the end.

01/27/2022

Pre teeter training. Echo (border collie) playing on the wobble board then learning to play the “bang game” on the teeter. Super Cross (mini Aussie) playing the bang game. (Oops, excuse my fingertip!).

01/26/2022

Ronin’s training session today. Puppy agility. We had him work in a little bit of coordination. Sometimes coordination is hard to come by when you are a young English bulldog puppy. First few times we put the “ladder” upside down so he just had to figure out how to step over the bars on the ground. Second one is laddder on short legs so he has to figure out how to lift his legs and place his feet. We did each several times and he improved each pass. Then Ronin got to do a sequence. He went through the tunnel and around the barrel. He still isn’t quite sure how to keep his backend under him on the turn. This has to be the cutest think Inhave seen all week.

01/26/2022

Sometimes I get to play with my own dogs. This is our brand new teeter. Our old one was retired. Lil’Bit, my poodle X rescue, still remembers how to do a low, full length teeter with confidence. Bittie is a bit slower than she was on the old one but it’s been awhile. A few more reps and she will be back to speed. We will start adding in other equipment like jumps and tunnels to “sequence”. After that we will start raising the base gradually and repeating the building blocks until she happily and confidently can do the full height teeter
with the base at 2 feet. Fun and games building on success. Go Bittie! (Excuse my papillon barking in the background. Echo wants to come out and play. )

01/26/2022

Our pre teeter training was done on a wobble board. Then we played on the mini teeter. (You can see it in the corner with the barrels sitting on it). Tonight Cooper (pictured) and Shrute got to be the first two dogs to play on our new teeter. Cooper is pictured playing the “bang” game which is one of the first games we play when learning the teeter. The video is Cooper going over the low teeter at the end of the lesson. We played lots of little games to get to this point so there’s no fear and a sense of fun for the dog.

01/25/2022

AKC has just announced that it has made its Virtual Rally Obedience program a permanent part of its Rally Obedience program. That means you can tape your rally run and submit it to be judged. Paws2Play Agility for Fun Training also teaches Rally. If you are interested in finding out more about Rally Obedience for fun or competition message us and ask.

01/22/2022

All set up for the new 9:30 Beginner Agility Class!

01/20/2022

Star is also learning how to do a “backside” jump in a very short sequence.

01/20/2022

Hercules is learning how to do a “backside” jump in a short sequence.