Agility Fun

At our first agility class Wed. our instructors came up with a fun relay race to test our handling skills! Seeing as it was St. Patrick's Day, we all got a little leprechaun hat & a green necklace with a small mug attached to it.
The object of the race was to run through 4 poles with our dogs first on our left side , then on the right side on the way back. When we reached the end of the 4 poles there was a bottle of pop on a chair. We had to place our dogs in a sit stay, open the bottle of pop, pour it into our mugs attached around our necks, drink the pop, put the lid back on, place it on the chair & run back!
It was the boy dogs against the girl dogs, our team managed to win one of the 3 races....we almost had the 2nd race but Kort went on the outside of the very last pole, up to that point it was neck & neck with Amanda & Pixel!
All this was fun but it was also helping with agility skills, the running & weaving while the dogs had to pay attention to which direction we were going helps the dog to read body language. The sit at the end helps with a good start line stay, plus all the yelling & cheering mimics a noisy agility field.
This is Kort sitting so nice while I drank my pop!......

At this point Amanda & I are neck & neck !......

Thanks for the pictures Sarah!