Jumpers trial

i took goldie to a dog park that has jumps and she just looked at me as if to say... no mum that takes energy

I am sure Biscuit is going to do the same thing...hehehehe. If I can get him over the frist one we might be ok but sometimes he just goes around it!

Jumping would not be to good for labs would it? I mean with there heavy bone structure?

Not as babies no but adults would be fine as long as their joints are good. German Shepherds do jumping as well. Wish you all the very best in your trials and jumping hope the weather is not too hot either.

Biscuit! You be a GOOD Boy! Look straight ahead and do what yer Mum tells you!

lorie wrote:Biscuit! You be a GOOD Boy! Look straight ahead and do what yer Mum tells you!

If only it was that easy...hehehhehe. I don't mind anyway really or though I would like him to at least no run off out of the ring but this trial is a learning curve for him and me.

Thankyou for the well wishes.

Oh we have a beautiful german shepard who dose agility at our club and he is very good but we don't have any labs so I was wondering that was all... We do have a great dane doing it as well and 2 afgahs and lots of border collies a couple of cav's and a few mixed breeds plus Biscuit.... We are a very interesting bunch I tell ya!

Sure is but having a ball doing it... good on you.

Good luk m8 an enjoy the fun ...

Oh, I can't wait for spring! I'm going to the toy section and see what I can find for agility things for Natalie! She runs like a deer! Bouncy bounce bounce!
The stuff in the mags is OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

i dont think labs would be good their bellies get in the way.lol. they eally dont have the shape for jumping and they are heavy boned they would land awkwardly

Yes I know that is why hubby built all of my stuff. Each contact is about $1000 and we made all 3 and the pause table with paint for just on $1000 and hubby built some gates for the dog club and they gave me my tunnel which was $320 and then we built all the jumps from scrap and the pvc pipe came from the dump....Recycling to its finest...heheheheh. The only thing shop bought was the hoop and I got that at the RSPCA shop for $60 so all in all I am happy we got away with it much cheaper than if other people made it ect We added it up for insurance and replacement cost would be $5000 that is just crazy!

Would love to see Natalie doing agility so please pictures when you start. They love it so good luck.

sharreem wrote:i dont think labs would be good their bellies get in the way.lol. they eally dont have the shape for jumping and they are heavy boned they would land awkwardly

I thought that might be the case. I was taking to a friend today and she has a australian bulldog and she said that she would be to heavy to do agility and would put to much stress on her bones and joints from the landings.

yes they dont cope to well with heavy landings and bulldogs have such heavy bodies and short legs the pressure would not be good

Lorie I met the most beautiful male standard poodle yesterday at the pet expo. He was gorgeous but nothing compared to Nat and Mingo. Told her about you and your pink poo's and she just rolled her eyes what is it with people. I wish I had photos of your girls with me to show off. I tell everyone about Nat and Mingo.

Some people are just living in the dark ages....LOLOL

Ha Ha yep some people just don't get pink poos do they

Well done Biscuit...think the Herbster would point blank refuse to jump over anything he would just walk underneath!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well we did our first jumpers trial yesterday and I had a blast. I was so worried about him playing zoomies that I kept calling him to me and we lost time but we got a clear round and most of all he had fun. We also entered open jumpers which has weave poles and distance work but it was just for an extra run and he did wonderfully we got the weaves although slow and he stopped at the tunnel and had to be told again and he was not good with distance but we had done nothing with distance and that course was huge and you had to do it in 39sec? Crazy judge...........all the fast dogs seemed to knock down bars and I didn't want to teach Biscuit bad habits so we took our time. I am trying to up load them to youtube when that happens I will post the link.

We are doing it all again next weekend and obeidence....hehehhehe

Good boy biscuit well done Mechalle glad you had a great time. A clear round is awesome.

Here is the link to his novice trial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt57CLo3pgY

wow he did fantastic!!! well done both of you

Hey that looks sooo fun! He really looked like he was aiming to please you and his tail was going a mile a minute!!

Biscuit had a blast and so did I. We are looking forward to more events/trials and will a bit more training we will get it right...hehehehhe

He looked great who was the narrator.... great stuff.

Sam the girl in our other video with her trying to run him at my place.

Ahh okay... she did a great job!!