About The Classes

Doggie U Tuesday and Thursday class descriptions

Beginners class for dogs that have never seen equipment.  Handlers can be familiar with equipment.  Introduction to the equipment, how to teach your dog to jump, weaves, contact obstacles will to shown to your dog.  Handlers will learn how to safely train the dogs to navigate around the obstacles.  Obedience for agility will be addressed, sit, stay, come which is crucial to training agility.  How to use food and toys in the training of agility will be shown to the handlers and dogs.

Advanced Beginner – once dog and handler have completed the beginner class, we continue to show the dogs more of the equipment.  The dogs will learn how to safely do the obstacles.  We will begin to work on handling and how to get your dogs from one obstacle to the other.  Handling, front and rear crosses, why we do them are addressed in this class.

Novice class - for dogs who are familiar with all equipment.  Weaves can be open, not straight; see-saw can be low.  Handler has an idea regarding contacts and has criteria on the performance of them.  Learning to handle dogs to successfully complete the sequence will be a high priority in this class.

Wednesday   Doggie U Competition Full Floor agility classes

Competition Class - Full size course is run, dogs do closed weaves.  Courses are more difficult and the sequences will challenge the dog and handler team to work at  all the levels of competition, the *Novice,**Advanced/Open and ***Masters/Excellent level.

 On Wednesday  five hours of full floor competition agility will be offered.