Unfortunatly there are no dog related activities where we live. The is one dog trainer, she is a very nice woman but she took a course 30 some odd years ago and when we enrolled Soter in her class, she admitted I knew more about training then she did. We attended anyway for socialization. We tried to get an agility class started but there were no takers. Plenty of "sure we'd love too" but no one actually followed through. No SAR training and the local dog park is only an empty out of use ball field.
I want so badly to do things with my dogs, they're so very smart and so willing to work and learn. So to this end, my husband and I built a little play agility set. It's fully expandable for when they get better, it's fully movable too and I can take it apart and put it back up in just 10 minutes or so. Here's some pics.
There may be some hope on the horizon for SAR training. There's a new vet tech in town who did take a SAR trainer course not too long ago. Unfortunatly it was really old and outdated teaching methods. Yank and crank other rather harsh methods. She was complaining that no one was interested in town, I told her we would love to learn SAR BUT we use praise, treats and shear happy excitement to train. She's willing to give it a try and adapt her training techniques so we'll see how it goes. I'm really excited. Sorry about the quality of the pics, I need a better camera.
I want so badly to do things with my dogs, they're so very smart and so willing to work and learn. So to this end, my husband and I built a little play agility set. It's fully expandable for when they get better, it's fully movable too and I can take it apart and put it back up in just 10 minutes or so. Here's some pics.
There may be some hope on the horizon for SAR training. There's a new vet tech in town who did take a SAR trainer course not too long ago. Unfortunatly it was really old and outdated teaching methods. Yank and crank other rather harsh methods. She was complaining that no one was interested in town, I told her we would love to learn SAR BUT we use praise, treats and shear happy excitement to train. She's willing to give it a try and adapt her training techniques so we'll see how it goes. I'm really excited. Sorry about the quality of the pics, I need a better camera.