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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kinda wonder if my husky would be good at that. Before I moved, she would tear ass through the backyard around all the crap I kept out there like an obstacle course.

I'd probably have a harder time keeping up with her than her doing all those jukes and doing the course lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's definitely worth the shot. Many agility trainers will do an evaluation with the owner and the dog to see how well they would react on a course.

You'd ideally want to have a near perfect recall, as well as being able to command from a distance. If you could do both then it will be easy for your dog to learn the obstacles.

There are quite a lot of videos of high end competitions and theirs at least one of every breed.