Dog Agility

What is dog agility:

Dog agility is a dog sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy. Dogs run off-leash with no food or toys as incentives, and the handler can touch neither dog or obstacles.

Agility obstacles:

There are diferent types of obstacles in agility:

1-Contact obstacles:

The A-frame is made of two pieces of wood in a A shape.

The Dog walk is made of three  pieces of wood.

The Teeter Totter or see saw is made out of one piece of wood. If the dog gets at the end the teeter will move.

2-Tunnels:

The normal tunnel is a tube where the dogs have to run through.

The Collasped Tunnel is made in two parts thet are sticked together. The first part is like a normal tunnel of 1m, the second part is a chute of 3m.

3-Jumps:

The hurdle is a normal jump that is the most used obstacle in courses.

The spread jump is made of two or three horizontal bars spread forward or back from each other.

The long jump is a set of four or five slightly raised platforms that form a broad area over which the dog must jump without setting their feet on any of the platforms.

The tire jump is a tire haning on the height for the dog.

4-Other obstacles:

The table is a piece of wood on a small height where the dog has to stay five seconds.

The weave poles is a obstacle made of twelve bars set up verticaly where the dog has to weave throuhg it.

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