Does your dog really listen to your verbal cues? How is distance handling working for you? Let’s find out! Becky Sinclair, one of our great Team AgiNotes members designed this challenge for you!

The idea of this little challenge is distance handling and obstacle discrimination between the jump, weaves, and tunnel. The handler isn’t allowed past the exit of the first tunnel so in this exercise, there’s no physical help! The dog needs to listen to the verbal cues.

Please note: If you haven’t trained your dog to understand these cues, it would be unfair to expect him to manage this exercise. In that case, build the skills step by step:

• Teach the cues for each obstacle separately

• Train your dog to find each of these obstacles from the distance, increasing the distance step by step.

• Do some easier discrimination exercises (more distance between the obstacles, less distance between you and the obstacles).

Save the course map and the exercise

The course map can be found in the AgiNotes app. You can save the challenge to your training list and after performing it, move it to your training diary with one click. We hope you’ll enjoy the exercises and get to develop your dog’s seesaw skills!

Training challenge in Finnish

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