Hoopers

[PoniesRock]

I’ve been looking at taking my parsons Jack Russell to some Hoopers training. She’s full of energy, and on the whole pretty well behaved. Locally there aren’t any classes I can make till April. I was just wondering who else does this with their dogs? Is there anything specific they practiced before starting?! And most importantly - do your dogs love it?!

 

[Bellaboo18]

No help really as we've not started yet but it's our plan to start in Spring. She's only 8 months old and has still got 6 weeks of her obedience classes left so when they finish we're going to start with a few one to one hooper classes.
We don't know what our pup is, she was born at a rehoming centre but she's a bit pointer like, with buddles of energy and enjoys learning. I *think* she'll love it.

I'd be interested to know how you get on if you do go. There's an agility thread on the forum which might be worth posting on.

 

[Teaselmeg]

We do it. I started as something for my retired agility dog to do together. Mine have a blast doing it. There is an element of teaching the dog to work away from you, so maybe work on that, create a hoop if you don't have any by going through gaps away from you or through a tunnel. If you are going to get some hoops, get the bottomless ones ( no rail across the bottom), as there have been dogs damaging toes on them, so the trend is moving away from those.