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© Cover NUMBER 5 THE MAGAZINE FOR DOG AGILITY ENTHUSIASTS © JT PAWPRINTS, CLEAN RUN, MARCY MANTELL PHOTOGRAPHY 18 Handling Your Dog in Awesome Style, Part 2: Side Cues This month’s article focuses on side cues, which are used to give the dog information about where he should be in relation to the handler. By Linda Mecklenburg 51 MAY 08 VOLUME 14 57 Spy Kids: Applying Ground Work Principles to Training Mastery of this month’s ground work drills is critical for agility training. Review these drills anytime you need to fine-tune your dog’s understanding of your body cues. By Nancy Gyes 10 What to Do When Things Go Wrong in Training or Competition When something goes wrong on course, it often happens too quickly for us to react. By focusing on what to do before and after things go wrong, we can increase the likelihood that more things go right, more often. By Moe Strenfel 27 Say Yes to the Learning Curve: Starting as a Team, Part 2 Whether your dog is overaroused or understimulated at a trial, these games will help bring him to a balanced state of mind, so that you can enter the ring as a team that is ready for the best run ever! By Susan Garrett Focus on Impulse Control Help your dog learn a valuable lesson using the Premack Principle: in the face of temptation he can get what he wants by exercising self-control. It’s a simple but powerful concept. By Deborah Jones, PhD Features 5 Editorializing: Agility People Are Nuts! (And Happy About It!) Hello. My name is Todd, and I’m nuts about agility. By Todd Curtis 66 Shelter Champs: Sam While many competitors dream of earning titles, animal shelters continue to house dogs that were relinquished because they are too energetic, too smart, or too busy for most pet homes. Many of these dogs are great agility prospects. This month meet Sam. By Lisa Barrett © SUSAN GARRETT 16 On Course with Helene Juice An agility competitor reminds us to keep agility in perspective and to believe in ourselves and our dogs. By Mary Jo Johnson 22 Trainer’s Forum The timing of your commands has a huge impact on how smoothly and accurately your dog runs a course. This month’s trainers offer exercises that will hone your reflexes so that delivering timely cues becomes second nature. By Brenna Fender 32 Foundation Fundamentals: Obstacle Discrimination This month we begin teaching obstacle discrimination by sending the dog to two different props using the cues we learned last month. By Mary Ellen Barry 46 Giving the Most to Your Classes While Keeping Your Sanity For instructors, there are few breaks from competing, training their own dogs, training their students, and working on lesson plans. This routine can take its toll on any instructor’s bright and cheery outlook. Here are a few tips on how to give the most to your classes while keeping your sanity and staying passionate about agility. By Sharon Freilich 53 Power Paws Patterns: Number Five The number five gives us some drills with side changes and serpentines, using no more than five obstacles. By Nancy Gyes 69 When Pigs Fly: Increasing Drive It takes a lot of effort for Pigs Fly dogs to get around an agility course, and that amount of effort can have a huge impact on drive. This month we show you how to decrease that effort and we give you tips on how to increase desire. By Jane Killion 74 Carpal and Tarsal Injuries Sprains to the carpal and tarsal joints are the most common injuries for agility dogs, and often they go undiagnosed. By Gayle H. Jaeger, DVM, MSpVM, DACVS and Sherman O. Canapp Jr., DVM, MS, DACVS 39 Running A-frames: A New Concept Here is a training method you can use to teach either a large dog or a little dog to accurately and consistently run the A-frame contacts. By Rachel Sanders 62 Put an End to Weave Pole Problems If your dog has problems with missed weave pole entries, speed in the poles, or exiting early, here are some solutions for teaching your dog to be a smooth, fast, accurate weaver. By Ann Croft Columns 6 7 8 Tip of the Month By Undine Bistany Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility… By Brenna Fender Backyard Dogs By Karen Holik 36 Skill of the Month By Karen Holik 79 Distance Challenge By Jane Simmons-Moake 82 Letter to the Editor 82 Course Diagram Keys Cover Dog Wegner’s Manhattan Project AX, MXJ, ARX, TRPX, a.k.a. Atom, an 8-year-old Whippet owned by Jennifer Smith of Wisconsin. Photo by Alissa Behn, www.pet-personalities.com Clean Run (ISSN 1089-8506) is published monthly by Clean Run Productions, LLC. Principal ofﬁce: 17 Industrial Dr., South Hadley, MA 01075. Periodicals postage paid at South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075-9902 and additional ofﬁces. © Copyright 1995-2008 Bud Houston and Clean Run Productions, LLC. All world rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Clean Run, 17 Industrial Dr., South Hadley, MA 01075. May 08 | Clean Run 3

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