Switching Sides: Making the Transition from Obedience to Agility - Hardcover

Guetzloff, Kay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087719355X ISBN 13: 9780877193555

Verlag: Barker Heeler, 1999

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Book by Guetzloff Kay

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This book shows you how to teach your obedience-trained dog the added skills necessary to master agility techniques and later compete in agility trials. It is your one-stop guide to the organizations, terms, equipment, considerations, and precautions for participating in the fastest-growing dog sport in the U.S. and U.K.

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This book shows you how to teach your obedience-trained dog the added skills necessary to master agility techniques and later compete in agility trials. Through the use of precise instructions, black-and-white photos, and course and equipment designs, you will learn about the training techniques for each agility obstacle and how to put those skills together to run a successful course.

You will learn how to --
-- Understand agility jargon
-- Select commands
-- Make or purchase your own training equipment
-- Introduce your dog to new commands and exercises
-- Teach your dog to correctly perform on the pause table, various jumps, tunnels, contacts, the A-frame, the dog walk, the seesaw, the crossover, and weave poles
-- Avoid potential problems with contact obstacles
-- Prepare for a stress-free agility trial
-- Read a course layout, walk the course at a trial, remember the course, and run the course

This informative training book is your one-stop guide to the organizations, terms, equipment, considerations, and precautions for participating in the fastest-growing dog sport in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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• Verlag: Barker Heeler
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 087719355X
• ISBN 13: 9780877193555
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208