Agility and Flyball
Agility
Agility is a great way to engage in an activity together. It can help build your bond with your dog, it helps harness your dog's problem-solving skills, and it can help with confidence, fitness and balance.
The key to successful agility is communication and signalling between dog and owner, therefore it can improve these areas greatly.
We run regular Taster Agility sessions which helps you peek into the world of agility in a fun and non-competitive way. You and your dog will learn to navigate all the usual agility equipment including hurdles, tunnels, weaves, hoops, A-frame, dog walk and see-saw. This session is suitable for all dogs, including puppies (puppies only step over low jumps to avoid straining their joints) and is great to find out more, before you book our six week course.
Our six week Agility course balances the high excitement of agility with calming exercises that help the dogs stay grounded and focused, which is a great transferrable skill to other areas of life. In this course your dog will get to go on all the agility equipment (jumps, hoops, tunnels, the dog walk, the seasaw, weaves etc). As we progress into the course, we start increasing the difficulty by creating variations of obstacles for you and your dog to navigate whilst making sure it is achievable and fun. We welcome dogs who have done agility before and can provide more challenging courses.
Agility can be a high-energy and high-impact sport, which we manage carefully, so the six week course is for dogs over 8 months old with no physical issues that could be made worse by doing agility.
Flyball
Flyball is a fun, high-energy sport where dogs run and jump through some hurdles and then collect a tennis ball, turn round and run back over the jumps to their owner where they drop the ball.
Like all our training and activities, our flyball training is dog-centred and non-competitive. We want all the participants to feel secure in what they are learning and to be calm in between the flurries of running, jumping, fetching balls. Flyball is also a good way to improve recall and fetch, for those who need it.
Our beginner Flyball course is suitable for those who have never tried Flyball before, or dogs who have tried it but would like to have a refresher.
Our Flyball Club is for dogs who have taken part in flyball sessions previously and have reached the stage of reliably going up and down the flyball run off lead, and carrying the ball back to you.