Daisy does agility!

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She is a darn sight brighter than any of mine for sure ? every time I try any attempt at agility with them they run around the fence not over it, and look totally baffled if I ask them to go through the tunnel! Well done Daisy ?
 
She is doing brilliantly if she has only just started. I wouldn't worry too much about longer courses yet, just concentrate on her focus and drive over a few jumps/tunnel. Where I train they are nearly all competing dogs and we very rarely put together more than 6 jumps in training apart from maybe one longer run to finish. Does she work for a toy - try putting one at the end of a line of jumps and encourage her to run on ahead to it.
 
I tried it a few months ago with smol floof to see if it would be something he would like to do in his retirement, he aced the place mats (he knew them already to be fair) and was very fast and got the hang of it quickly, only bad thing was that when he knocked a pole he picked it up and ran around with it because it was just a huge dumbbell to him :p
 
She looks like she is really enjoying it! Go Daisy! Deffo keep working with her

I tried it with my little guy and he loves it, the trainers thought he was brilliant. It was only a taster thing, so I must go back and have another go with him.
 
Thanks all, sorry for lack of replies, we now have a rather sorry for herself Daisy :( was sick yesterday during the day (not exactly sure when as we were at work) and hasn't eaten anything since. Not interested in breakfast this morning at all so have left her with the husband in the hope that after a walk she might want to eat something :-/
 
Parrotperson said:
oh. no! poor daisy hope she's ok later.
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Me too :( she always gets up with me and comes and has her breakfast whilst I pack to leave :-/ hopefully she's just eaten something she shouldn't that needs time to work it's way out of her system. Husband is going to try and get a vet appointment for tonight or tomorrow I think.
 
Been to the vet and nothing obvious apart from her being 'not right' so she's been given anti-inflammatories, antisickness and antibiotics to hopefully jumpstart her appetite again. Will try her with some of the vets GI food when the drugs have had time to kick in and see ???
 
Looking good, Dobby has 2 lessons next weekend (he's only had 1 so far), one with a new trainer who hopefully will let us come back ?

Sorry to hear she's not feeling well though.
 
Mine was sick last week, turned out he had roundworm (horrendously guilty owner here as I hadn’t wormed him for a while as he reacts badly to them, and he doesn’t scrounge off the floor so thought he would be ok). Any chance it could be something like that? He hasn’t been sick since I wormed him, well, barring his bad reaction to the wormer again.
 
BBP said:
Mine was sick last week, turned out he had roundworm (horrendously guilty owner here as I hadn’t wormed him for a while as he reacts badly to them, and he doesn’t scrounge off the floor so thought he would be ok). Any chance it could be something like that? He hasn’t been sick since I wormed him, well, barring his bad reaction to the wormer again.
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She was wormed in November so is due thetheginning of Feb. It is possible but I suspect more likely to do with something she's eaten. Thankfully the antisickness seems to have sorted the appetite so she had half a can of the vets GI food over the course of last night and kept it down so will see what tomorrow brings!
 
Parrotperson said:
Hurrah. Yes 'tis all my fault but what FUN! go George!
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sadly I had a very snotty reply saying that George “wouldn’t be suitable” as dogs couldn’t possibly train with a muzzle on and needed to be under 100% control at all times. Which I get absolutely as a principle, but it could have been phrased better! Sorry George..... ?
 
BBP said:
Mine was sick last week, turned out he had roundworm (horrendously guilty owner here as I hadn’t wormed him for a while as he reacts badly to them, and he doesn’t scrounge off the floor so thought he would be ok). Any chance it could be something like that? He hasn’t been sick since I wormed him, well, barring his bad reaction to the wormer again.
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Does the wormer contain Ivermectin? Collies and some other herding breeds can be sensitive to it if they carry the MDR1 gene (and also some other medications). I used to have a Rough Collie.

https://www.ahtdnatesting.co.uk/tests/mdr1-ivermectin/

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skinnydipper said:
Does the wormer contain Ivermectin? Collies and some other herding breeds can be sensitive to it if they carry the MDR1 gene (and also some other medications). I used to have a Rough Collie.

https://www.ahtdnatesting.co.uk/tests/mdr1-ivermectin/

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I am going to get him DNA tested, my vets were using milbemax and I did question them on it for a collie but they said it’s fine. Now I’m with a new vet and they said they wouldn’t give milbemax to a collie. So we used endoguard this time. He was still sick but may have been the worms reacting rather than the medication in the wormer.
 
Levrier said:
sadly I had a very snotty reply saying that George “wouldn’t be suitable” as dogs couldn’t possibly train with a muzzle on and needed to be under 100% control at all times. Which I get absolutely as a principle, but it could have been phrased better! Sorry George..... ?
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NOOOOOOO! This is terrier discrimination I tell you! poor George.
 
BBP said:
I am going to get him DNA tested, my vets were using milbemax and I did question them on it for a collie but they said it’s fine. Now I’m with a new vet and they said they wouldn’t give milbemax to a collie. So we used endoguard this time. He was still sick but may have been the worms reacting rather than the medication in the wormer.
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I didn't get Joe tested. I just avoided anything which had the potential to harm him if he had carried the gene.

I hope your dog's test is negative for the MDR1 mutation .
 
That is bloody good going for a couple of weeks in! :D

Pssst - if you think you might carry on longer term, consider phasing out the verbal 'jump'. On a full course of 20 obstacles you will a.) run out of breath and b.) want your voice commands for things like wrap/lop/back/here/in etc. to stand out. As MM mentions if you use a toy or something to drive to at the end of a sequence, they learn to take the next obstacles that your body is pointing at, there's no need to indicate every last jump. :)
 
blackcob said:
That is bloody good going for a couple of weeks in! :D

Pssst - if you think you might carry on longer term, consider phasing out the verbal 'jump'. On a full course of 20 obstacles you will a.) run out of breath and b.) want your voice commands for things like wrap/lop/back/here/in etc. to stand out. As MM mentions if you use a toy or something to drive to at the end of a sequence, they learn to take the next obstacles that your body is pointing at, there's no need to indicate every last jump. :)
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Thank you, she a smart cookie when she wants to be! I did wonder about this so will give it a go, taa :)
 
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