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lottiepony

lottiepony

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Right I'm looking for an activity that me and the pooch can take part in she's now 7 months and think it would be nice to start looking for something we can do. I love the idea of flyball and agility but being a basset not sure she'd keep up with the collies! Rubys good off lead and knows basic commands sit, down, stay, paw etc so any ideas let me know!


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Although you are right in thinking she won't keep up with collies, this is not a problem in flyball.
Each team has a seed time and some teams have no collies in at all. We have toy poodles and a sheltie, all sorts of crosss breeds, JRTs, any breed at all can do flyball

My collie does 4.6 secs, my other collie doea anything from 4.9 to 5.6 secs and my lab used to do 7 secs but all get into teams.

Team seed times range from 16.42secs the british record, to 33 secs and some even slower. At a Tournament the teams are put into divisions with teams of similar seed times, so everyone has a chance.
With Agility again you can do what I did with my slow Lab--I used to give myself the challenge of doing a Clear round (All clear rounds get a rosette)
Give it a go.
 
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PS she won't be able to start either until she is a little older. The rules for both say no competeing until they are 18 months old, although in flyball they can do Starter competitions at a year old.
You can play ball with her, continue working on recall and other training and also take her out and about for socialisation skills.
 
Henry has started agility with a foundation course (without jumps etc) more set up for teaching you as the owner where you need to be and handling etc. Now he is over a year come the spring we will be starting a proper same with fly ball. If your worried about speed etc what about Rally, relatively new and only know about it through my agility lady but its basically you have to navigate a course with numbered signs showing different exercises to perform which are stuff you would do as part of your training anyway. Never tried it but seems like fun. Think there is a website if you google it.

Loving those ears! :D
 
Really good to know we can still have a go at these things as they do look really fun will have to google and see what clubs are in my area. Also good point about the tracking will have to google that aswell as confess to not knowing much about it! CAn't wait till she's old enough but in the mean time we'll keep on building on what we've got :)
 
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