[AnAmericanMother]

The folks who run agility are WAY ahead of you - all the dogs run "naked" in USDAA trials, no collars, no nothin'. That was a problem in and of itself, so I started doing runthroughs with Shelley without her collar on. It helped.

We decided to do agility rather than obedience because my dog has a very hard time sitting still. She'll do it, but 5 minutes outside the view of her handler is so far outside the realm of possibility it wasn't even worth trying for.

Besides, she just LOVES doing something that requires her to run around, jump over things, climb things, and bark (she is the fastest Lab you ever saw - really fast.)

[HairOfTheDog]

The folks who run agility are WAY ahead of you - all the dogs run "naked" in USDAA trials, no collars, no nothin'.

Ack! - Foiled! :~D

Although he would have been fine for Agility as he was for the moving excercises in obedience. Alone in the ring he was fine. It was the sits and downs he couldn't do, his only interest being which dog he could go climb on when I got out of sight. He even got his butt chewed by a male shepherd he tried to mount at a show. He still wanted to try again!! The boy needed neutered, and he finally was, but too old to do the jumps to finish Advanced AKC obedience. I completed his CDX by only showing him outside on grass (rather than indoors on concrete) But the jumps in Utility are so high (twice their shoulder height) that as an older heavy-ish dog, he started hurting himself landing.

Here he was still tryin' at 15 though!

He's been gone almost a year now.... snif...