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Maisey
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posted 06-18-2003 05:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Maisey     Edit/Delete Message
I am interested in hearing what you all do with your dogs...flyball, agility, carting/drafting, obedience. Anyone have a dog who has earned the Canine Good Citizen award? If so what level? Goob, you mentioned your dogs are involved in weight pulling..I would love to hear about that. Search and rescue, tracking...any kind of activity or competition. Do tell!

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TinaK12
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posted 06-18-2003 10:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for TinaK12     Edit/Delete Message
I love to swim with my dog Reo. In the summer, she and I go to my mother's house. There is a staircase in the pool. As soon as we get the pool, Reo runs for the stairs. She plops her butt down on the first step and sticks her face in the water, until I'm settled in and ready to go.

Once I'm in the pool, Reo will swim to me, until I dive under the water and try to swim away. She keeps going until she catches up to me. At that point, I usually will put my arms around her and give her a little break. Sometimes, I can't get her out of the water! It's great exercise for the both of us.

No competition, but just good summer fun and bonding!

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Jas

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posted 06-19-2003 12:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jas     Edit/Delete Message
Agility, obedience, conformation, hiking, biking, swimming.......gee its a dogs world!! Some of my dogs puppies do therapy work too.

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goob
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posted 06-19-2003 02:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for goob     Edit/Delete Message
We don't compete in anything (yet ), but here's the lineup of things our dogs do (and somethings I hope to have them doing soon)...

I do a little light weight pulling with Goo (pit bull), but nothing competition-wise, just for fun. We don't do heavy weights, never anything over 150 lbs, since she's older (10 yrs), but she LOVES to pull, and her eyes just light up when I get the harness out. Her most commonly used weight is my nephews in a wagon, but she's also pulled people (including me!)in sleds and sometimes we use a drag weight (just a weight dragging along behind her) for pulling if I don't feel like going to the trouble of hooking up the wagon. My nephew wants to try using her to pull him on his skateboard, so we'll see what happens with that (I already warned him that if he runs over my dog's feet, I'm going to run HIM over, lol ). We also do some agility in the backyard, play with her flirtpole (she has her own, because she doesn't like to chase half as much as she loves to tug, so it's set up especially for her), wade in the summertime (she doesn't like to swim much), and she also likes playing hide and seek (I know that's not a "competition", but it's fun anyway ).

Annie (fire cracker disguised as a Mini Dachshund) doesn't compete in anything yet either, but hopefully before this year's out, we'll be ready for any/either of these: agility, tracking, or obedience. She knows most of the novice agility equipment, just needs to be sharpened up a bit and get on a real course for practice. We've just started fooling around with tracking, but she's a hound, and following her nose seems to come naturally to her... and the obedience is something we just fool around with, so I doubt we'll get too far with that, lol. We may try rally O though if "normal" obedience doesn't work out. She also likes to swim, play catch, and play with the other flirtpole.

Casey (Cocker Spaniel) may eventually be my oldest nephew's agility/obedience dog, she's pretty far along in her training for both, and is slow/responsive enough that he should be able to handle her easily. She's pretty much a lazy housedog, but does like to play catch sometimes.

Joey (Chihuahua) may eventually do soem agility, but he's really shy, so we need to get over that first. He's more of a lap dog/stalker than anything else

Haley (pit bull) is just now learning some manners, but eventually I'd like to get her her therapy dog certification (may have to wait a few years for her to calm down more though), so she can do hospital visits. We may also do a little obedience, if she likes it enough, we'll see.

Here's a link to read a little more about weight pulling: http://iwpa.net/
And one about rally O: http://www.rallyobedience.com/

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Maisey
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posted 06-19-2003 03:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Maisey     Edit/Delete Message
What is a flirtpole????

My aussie mix, Dooley, as some of you may have already read does flyball and has his first tournament in August. He is nuts about this sport! He also just finished an 8 week private course in agility, still lots of work to do there before competing...mostly for me, cause I can't keep up with him and I learn slower. I love to spend time teaching him tricks, and he loves doing them. He also goes on trail rides with me (horses) and is crazy about swimming and hiking.
Witt is MY dog, he is a 7 month old Catahoula Leopard Cur mix, we think he is mixed with one of the "bull" breeds. I wanted him for flyball(and lovin')...but looking at his build now at 7 months, I wonder if he will be competative at all, and I worry that it may be too hard on his body because of his "tankish" build. he is very fast on a straight away, and will fetch and retrieve a ball, but it doesn't seem to be a passion with him as of yet, not like with Dooley. I won't even try flyball with him until he has matured more, so we will just have to wait and see. I did however discover dog drafting, I begged and pleaded for a Radio Flyer ATV trailer, with a cooler that attaches to the back and an umbrella, for Mothers day and got it, now I am looking at harnesses, soon we will modify the set up so we can train Witt to pull it. I am very excited about this! Can ya tell?
I take Witt to agility practice with Dooley and we work on stuff like the stay table and tunnels, the stuff that won't harm his growing cute self, and he really seems to like it. I am interested in so many things to do with the dogs...who knows what I may get into with them next. If Witt doesn't take to flyball...we will surely find something else he likes. So far he has proven to be an excellent fisherdog...he will jump in to get it so it doesn't get away. Catahoulas are bay dogs...my Witt will bay a fish like nothing you have seen, but so far hasn't shown any interest in squirrels. Go figure!

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Maisey
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posted 06-19-2003 03:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Maisey     Edit/Delete Message
PS. Thanks for the links Goob..I had not heard of Rally O, and the weight pulling..I have to admit has me interested. My husband is rolling his eyes at the thought of more things to be involved in! I just think he is scared my dog can pull more than his dog. Hehehehe!

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goob
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posted 06-19-2003 01:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for goob     Edit/Delete Message
A flirtpole... picture one of those cat toys, with the stick, and a string tied to that, then a feather at the end of the string. It's basically the same principle, but bigger. I used a 5 ft piece of PVC, a piece of rope ran through the pipe with it anchored at one end, 5-6 ft hanging out of the other, and a scrap of leather at the end of the rope. It's great for dogs with a lot of prey drive, because they can chase, tug, jump up for it, whatever. Goo's just has a shorter, heavier piece of rope, and a toy at the end (she has little interest in "prey" objects that don't breathe ). If your dogs are really into tennis balls, you might try drilling through one, then running the rope through that and tying it on. I've also heard of people making them out of old carriage whips, tying the toy onto the end of it.

On bull breeds and flyball, you'd be surprised at how athletic some of those "tanks" are . I know there are some pit bulls involved in flyball, so it can be done with the right dog.

Good luck with the carting, and if it doesn't work out, maybe Witt could be nired out to the local fishing industry... you never know, in a few years, Catahoulas may be standard equipment for fishermen

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