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We are in NY, syracuse area.
This video is from our first and only UKI trial this past June. It was his first run. We had worked with Dudley Shumate the day before at this facility and he had been there before.
He couldn’t hold his start line stay and started zooming around and alarm barked at the judge. It took approximately 17 seconds for him to settle back in and work with me. Severity in my eyes is a 9. He has done this before but I have gotten him back in less time. He has also done this while hiking if someone comes along suddenly. I try to be hyper aware of our surroundings when we hike because while he has never made contact I know it can be extremely scary to have a big black dog suddenly barking in your face.
This video is from July. Again he broke his stay but it only took about 5 seconds for him to come back to work. Severity 5.
The third video is a Standard run. He takes around 2-3 seconds to get back to work after some errors and when asked to do his contacts. We just started trialing in standard this past May because he was afraid of the tip on the teeter and only started doing it in April.
Severity 2. I feel he still has a lot of confusion about his job when doing the contacts. Looking back at the training steps I missed eliminating the target so we are going back and reworking that.
Danny is 3 1/2 yrs old and we have been training since I got him at 9weeks. My instructor has me tossing treats in class when things go wrong to keep his frustration to a minimum. I am also working hard on my timing of cues so he knows where to go. My previous dog was fast but didn’t have the huge stride and I hadn’t trialed or run agility in several years so it is taking me a bit to work this out.
I may have made him sound worse than he is, lol, at home. He will settle and has actually gotten better since I have actively been working at it but I would seriously consider a consultation with a behavioral veterinarian.Danny K is my third agility dog and my 6th Standard poodle. I started the sport in 2002 and loved it. Professionally I own a pet grooming business and groomed competitively for many years. I am now semi retired, I go into the salon to do the books and groom one day a week. I also judge grooming competitions and speak at seminars throughout the United States.
My spare time now is spent playing and training with Danny K.
The timing for this course was perfect. We trialed 2 weeks ago at the facility where I take him to train at least twice a week. When we go it is usually very quiet, sometimes we are the only two there but I felt that trialing there he would be more comfortable and able to be less excited. It wasn’t the case. He was so over the top he couldn’t think. I was pretty disheartened and pulled him from Fast and Standard the rest of the weekend. The first video is from Fast, he broke his stay and just sort of ran wild.
The second is of our Standard run, which we got through but I had to stay on him the entire run and I don’t want to run that way.
The third video is from our JWW run on Sunday. I was very happy with it although he couldn’t hold his weaves.
After discussing his issues with my instructor I have pulled him from all trials where there is contact equipment and am revisiting out training.
He has always been “high strung”. He can rarely hold his start line stay in class when we first start a sequence but as the class goes on he will settle. You will see on the videos that once things don’t go right he starts to jump on me and grab at my arms. We are working on this by tossing a small treat to redirect his frustration. We are also playing the “toss the treat” game when I walk in the ring at class and seminars and it is helping him. We did a seminar this past weekend and he did better at recovering from breaking his stay. He use to run laps around the ring and not want to come back.
At home he has a hard time settling. I have to leash him up in the evening so he will lay down and relax otherwise he is looking out the windows looking for cars and/or people to walk by. He will even jump up and run if he hears a truck or loud car. He chases and play bites at his reflection or shadow so most of the shiny surfaces in my house are covered. I am working with him to “Station” which is helping.
