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® Cover THE MAGAZINE FOR DOG AGILITY ENTHUSIASTS MAY 16 PHOTOS © ALICIA DUBE, PAWPRINCESTUDIOS.COM, KENYA EBERSOLE 30 Training Your Toddler and New Agility Puppy to Coexist Integrating a new puppy into a household is often challenging, but if you are the parent of a toddler and thinking about getting a new dog for agility, there are additional concerns. Here are some ideas to train two energetic youngsters to coexist happily and safely. By Amanda Shyne 45 Overcoming Negative Experiences and Developing Confidence Unpredictable and potentially frightening things can happen to our dogs during trials or training. We need to instill confidence in our dogs to allow them to handle these eventualities and learn how to control our reaction to potentially negative occurrences. By Kathy Lofthouse VOLUME 22 NUMBER 05 60 Working Multiple Dogs Without Losing Your Mind, Part 2 Once all of the behaviors from last month are rock solid, you can proceed with more challenging training steps. You'll be working one dog while your other dogs are in their crates or on mats. At the end, your pack will be the envy of all your friends! By Pamela Dennison Features 5 Editorializing: Be Aware Before You Share Have you ever walked away from your computer screen a deflated person after reading comments on your Facebook training posts? By Brenna Fender 14 Puppy Skills for Total Team Performance: Talking About Toys This month we continue working on the puppy's impulse control around toys as well as begin to use the toy as a motivator as we work on turning over a jump and assuming a stopped contact position. By Frankie Joiris and Chris Ott 26 The Construction Zone: Wing to Nonwinged-Double Convertible Jump This simple plan allows you to build a traditional winged jump that converts into a double. By Patricia Pointing 42 Judge's Eye: R R R Aaargh!, Part 2 The R in AKC agility is more complex than the R in other organizations. While the R in AKC means a refusal was called, confusion can happen because there are two different types of refusals. By Cindy Deak 50 Sense of Self: Sportsmanship- Canine Competitor Sportsmanship relative to the canine partner is perhaps the most fundamental and important form of respect within dog agility. It spans both the training relationship an owner has with a dog, as well as the responsibility he or she possesses for the dog's physical and mental well-being. By Tori Self 54 On the Road with Your Dogs: Managing Your Mobile Phone to Stay Safe Competing in agility means frequent travel, often alone, with one or more dogs. When our car breaks down, we rely on our mobile phone to get help. Here are some tips for managing your phone so the battery isn't dead when you need it most. By Tracy Sengupta 8 Underfoot, Part 1: A Look at Foam Flooring Foam and EVA ° ooring is some of the most familiar indoor footing to agility competitors. Often considered erroneously to be rubber products, foam ° ooring options are largely available in easy-toinstall, interlocking squares. By Brenna Fender 22 Novice and Beyond- A Survival Guide: Trialing Smarts Some of what is needed to reach your goals in agility is not about dogs or dog training at all. It's about the other end of the leash: you. This month we will look at trialing skills. such as using the course map and course walking. These are real skills you can focus on improving and eventually excelling at. By Sandy Rogers 34 Welcome to the Matrix If you're having a problem reaching the level of agility performance you desire or you feel out of sync with your dog, the Agility Training Matrix can help you pinpoint exactly where the problem lies, so you can concentrate on that area and improve overall performance. By Debbie Harrison 58 Power Paws Drills This month's drills provide work on sending to a tunnel with the entrance facing away from the dog's line and practice cueing the dog to turn in the correct direction out of the tunnel. By Nancy Gyes 63 How to Train Legendary Lead-Outs, Part 3 Whether you are an athletic handler, slow handler, or physically challenged handler, long lead-outs can help your dog have a speedy and accurate head start on many courses. By Kristy Netzer Columns 6 Tip of the Month By Patricia Pointing 7 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility... By Brenna Fender 37 As the World Turns: Collected Front Cross The collected front cross is a front cross in which the handler is very close to the wing while executing the cross, and the dog is turning tightly around the wing after landing. By Mary Ellen Barry 17 The Judge's Debriefing By David Bozak 48 Backyard Dogs By Mia Grant Cover Dog Wheatie Wye ADCH, a.k.a. Wheatie, a 6-year-old All-American terrier mix owned and handled by Lauren Wye of California. Photo by Marty Barrett, photography by M. Clean Run (ISSN 1089-8506) is published monthly by Clean Run Productions, LLC. Principal o˜ ce: 17 Industrial Dr., South Hadley, MA 01075. Periodicals postage paid at South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075-9902 and additional o˜ ces. © Copyright 1995-2016 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 16 | Clean Run 3 http://www.PAWPRINCESTUDIOS.COM

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