Australian Shepherds are a very active breed. Some say the most active. And we have two (who are still puppies might I add). They should be more well-behaved than they are, we are still working on the "no jumping" and "no eating the humans' hair" but I ran across an agility starter set at Marshal's last weekend and after doing some prior research into agility kits online this one for $19.99 was a real steal. Others, which I admit are much better quality, can be very pricey. We wanted to practice over the weekend but we got rain and since we live in the desert our yards are all dirt. I think you can figure out what rain + dirt equals with pets. So I finally broke it out today and set it up and started training the puppies one at a time. But first we played Frisbee

Dixie makes cute grunting noises while trying to flip it in the dirt

Happy squinty puppy!

I worked with Dixie first because she seems to catch on a lot quicker than her brother, Diesel. With my treat bag on my hip and a clicker in my hand I started showing her through the three obstacles then just focused on one. We have a tunnel, a hoop to jump through, and the weaving poles. We started with the tunnel today.



Dixie picked it up pretty quick. I was able to get her to go through the tunnel a few times without a treat and a few times she went even though I didn't queue her. But she was very focused and kept looking to me for instructions. Nothing seemed to really distract her. Luckily both dogs had no fear of the tunnel, it was windy and kept trying to blow away but they weren't afraid of it.

Diesel took a little more time to get him to go through the tunnel. He preferred to jump on top of it and watch it spring back up. He just wanted the treats!