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Agility Training of the Border Collie
Border Collies are well mannered in general and they are hyperactive in
their nature. To utilize and work with the energetic nature of these breed
of dog they are indulged in different kind of activities sports are one of
them and in between different kind of sports activity it is always the
game of agility that takes out the best performance out of a Border collie
participants.
Agility is activity item of sports. It is comprised of a series of
activities like jumping from and of different heights and distance; a
narrow plank to walk on it; a ladder to climb on; a balancing on a sea
saw; jumping between the hanging tire; crossing two or more different
kinds of tunnels; and ultimately a series of 12 upright poles where the
dog supposed the track by a zigzag motion. This walking process of zigzag
motion is called weaving and border collie excels in this portion in a
superb way.
The rule of this event is each hurdle needs to be crossed by the Border
collie and each part of the obstacle is fixed with a stipulated time.
Moreover, this stipulated time is fixed on measuring the distance needs to
be covered by the dog. If the dog misses or overlooks any instruction
points are to be deducted from the score. The general areas where the
Collies lose their points are talking a particular upright poles out,
overlooking at a jump item or taking more time than mentioned to complete
though the last one is rare for border collie because of their proneness
to act in a hyper way.
To train a
Border Collie to compete in this sports the trainer needs to
teach the dog different kinds of commands like left, right, turn around,
go straight, etc and the dogs needs to learn and act according to the
command of the master. But as this kind of dogs are intelligent enough and
everyday the master maintains the same cycle of command to practice the
dog will grow a tendency to anticipate command before hearing and due to
its hyper nature will act even before learning an following the command of
his master.
While participating in this sports event, the asset of a border collie is
its speed and grace and the athletic ability of the dog. About the
perfection about the completion of the events this dog may lack its
perfection due to it's over active nature but most gracefully, it can
complete the course, that is the best part of the Border Collie.
To give proper training to your Border Collie dog we recommend you to
watch Dove Cresswell's dog training lessons, visit her site by
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