Clean Run - February 2013 - 3

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THE MAGAZINE FOR DOG AGILITY ENTHUSIASTS

PHOTOS © LORRIE REYNOLDS,
CAROL LAWRENCE, FRANKIE JOIRIS

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Out Spot Out! What Cues Your Dog
Really Pays Attention To
Understanding what you are really
telling your dog on course can greatly
improve your communication and
enhance your success in the sport. The
cues that you use remain fundamentally the same whether you are working
your dog from 5' away or 50' away.
By Lorrie Reynolds

FEBRUARY 13

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Head-Turning Turns, Part 2
Turns are the unsung hero of the agility
world. They can make or break a run, or
your dog, if they aren’t done well. Teach
your dog to organize himself for turns
so he can move smoothly, with balance
and speed, over challenges in a course.
This month we’ll focus on turns when
jumping at full height. By Jenni Shelegy

VOLUME 19

NUMBER 02

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Living Room Agility:
Two-on/Two-off Contact Training
Having a solid stop at the bottom
of contact obstacles requires physical and mechanical skills as well as
understanding of the desired behavior.
Most of the skills the dog needs can be
taught and practiced without contact
equipment, and in a relatively small
amount of space. By Frankie Joiris

Features
5

Editorializing: Abuse of Power?
People who are coaches and instructors in dog
sports are in positions of power, and must treat
that responsibility with the utmost respect.
Coaches can empower or crush a person with
a single statement. By Kathy Keats

10 Awesome Paws Drills
You need to be able to look at a sequence and
envision all possible ways to handle it. The goal
this month is to find multiple ways to handle
these simple drills and then try them to see
which way works best for you and your dog.
By Linda Mecklenburg
29 Improving Your Dog’s Endurance
with Dynamic Ball Work, Part 2
This month’s ball work focuses on intermediate and advance level exercises. The goal is still
to strengthen the dog’s Type I muscles, which
produces many benefits, including improved
stamina and endurance. By Dr. Debbie Gross
Saunders, DPT, MSPT, OCS, CCRP
32 Class Challenges for Rising Stars
Rather than working on your contacts by putting your dog over the contact obstacles again
and again, try progressive contact training. It’s
a way to run a course while still allowing the
major emphasis to be on contact performances.
By Stuart Mah

36 Can You Handle It?
Here’s an analysis of the winning runs in Team
Large Jumpers at the 2012 FCI Agility World
Championships as well as sequences based on
the course that will fit in a 60' x 80' training
space. By Marquand Cheek
45 Training with the Stars: Dana Pike
As a trainer and competitor, Dana Pike doesn’t
fit into any molds. She runs very different dogs
and always looks for the methods that will work
for the dog in front of her at the moment.
By Sally Silverman

Columns
6

Tip of the Month By Joan Krochko

Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Agility… By Brenna Fender

Backyard Dogs By Dudley Fontaine

18 The Judge’s Debriefing By Jerry McKenzie
42 The 10-Minute Trainer By Daisy Peel

12 Nutrition for the
Canine Athlete, Part 1
To keep our four-legged athletes
healthy and help them have a
long injury-free career, we need
to identify what classification of
exercise that they do so we can
provide them with the proper
nutritional requirements for
their sport. By Dr. Julie Mayer

51 Knowledge Equals Speed:
Introducing Tunnels
Most dogs ultimately enjoy the
open tunnel, but there are some
that never really drive to it and
some that don’t know how to
locate the entry if the approach
isn’t straight on. Here’s a method
to introduce tunnels so that your
dog enthusiastically finds the
tunnel entry and drives through
the obstacle. By Dawn Weaver
54 Teen Angst: Handling
Your Puppy’s Moments
of Insecurity
How you handle your developing puppy’s moments of insecurity can have a great impact on
his ability to trust you, his repertoire of behavioral choices, and
his future success in life. Here are
some things to know and games
to play to help you navigate
your puppy’s teen months.
By Catherine Steinke
63 Power Paws Skills:
Rear Crosses
Some dogs seem to pick up rear
cross skills very easily while others struggle with understanding
the handler’s intent. But every
dog can be taught a rear cross if
you understand the groundwork
and foundation skills needed.
By Nancy Gyes

Cover Dog
Ch Folklore’s Free Spirit CD, RE, SE,
OA, OAJ, a.k.a. Arlo, a 10-year-old
Norfolk Terrier owned by Sheila Foran
of Connecticut. Photo by Lesley
Mattuchio, www.pbase.com/lesleylou

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