Clean Run - May 2020 - 3

THE MAGAZINE FOR DOG AGILITY ENTHUSIASTS
MAY 2020
VOLUME 26
NUMBER 05

PHOTOS © MATT ALLISON, ISTOCK, MARC GAUB PHOTOGRAPHY

On the Cover
Laser Therapy in Modern Veterinary Medicine - Laser/light
therapy can be used as a part of a treatment program for common
conditions or as a tool to increase athletic performance and prevent
injury. By Dr. Sherman Canapp DVM, MS, CCRT & Dr. Krysta Bailey DVM

14 Training Your Dog to Stay Responsive
With the increasing difficulty of agility courses, you must make sure
your dog is responsive to your handling. Here are some drills to help
keep your dog from anticipating what's next. By Loretta Mueller

19 Practically Training: Get a Clue About Your Cues
Your cues and their combinations are the language that creates communication with your dog. How clear and consistent your cues are,
determines how well your dog understands you. How well he understands you affects success in and out of agility training.
By Sandy Rogers

10 Interactive Course Map - Take a look at a course map and then
watch a video discussion of the course as well as examples of different
types of dogs running it. By Elaine Rinicker

33 Compulsory Skills for Agility Success, Part 1: Skills for the
Handler Part of the Team
We, the two-legged member and leader of the agility team, are
responsible and required to possess and excel at many skills
(besides check writing) to ensure a successful performance.
By Debbie Harrison
43 Cheerleading: Rewarding or Aversive?
If we use cheerleading to try to support a nervous or worried dog,
how can we be sure that our verbal encouragement is achieving its
desired result? By Jo Sermon

Features
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Tip of the Month - Agility training is 24/7. Criteria should be rewarded in as many different environments as possible. By Laura Derrett

Editorializing: Well, Then - We're all looking for ways to have a little
bit of the stuff we love in this altered reality. Training is what we do; it's
what we have always spent a lot of time thinking about, why wouldn't
we find ways to keep that up? By Brenna Fender

Cover Dog
MACH Rhumbline's Unsinkable Molly, UD, JH, RA, ATCH-2, P-MAD, a.k.a.
Molly, a 9-year-old Labrador Retriever owned by Hollis McGuire (handler)
and Robin T. Goodman of New Hampshire. Photo by Jeremy Kezer

11 What It Really Means to Work the Dog in Front of You -
"Working the dog in front of you" is more just than an adjustment of
your training; it's a reflection of your character. By Mackenzie Goshorn
23 Weave Pole H-O-R-S-E - An adaptation of the basketball game of
H-O-R-S-E designed to practice difficult weave entries. By Dave Grubel
27 A Twist on Training with 2 x 2 Weaves - This twist on the 2x2
weave pole training method makes the process a bit simpler for the
handler while still achieving exceptional results. By Mary Ellen Barry
37 What Did I Learn? - What is your attitude when things go wrong
on course, or your plan goes awry? Do you beat yourself up? Do you
look to blame others? Or, do you look for what you can learn?
By Dr. Kathrine McAleese
40 The 25% Solution: Sequences for Small Spaces - This month's
exercises offer opportunities to practice turning in the opposite direction of a tunnel's curve and memorizing courses. By John Reid
47 Team Small Dog Agility Humility: Dog Show Dateline - A blowby-blow account of a typical trial day in the life of an agility handler.
By Laura Hartwick
51 Backyard Dogs - For a change of pace, this month's exercises use
letters rather than numbers as obstacle labels. Your task is to come up
with handling paths that spell a word. By David Bozak
54 Handling for Lead Changes - Anticipating and cueing lead changes at the right time can make a huge difference in how well you and
your dog run a course. By Lisa Lanser Rose
59 Power Paws Skills: Opening Lines Using Lead-outs - It pays to
train your lead-out skills carefully. A tricky opening on a course can
affect your entire run if you can't get into the correct spot to handle
the next sequence after the opening. By Nancy Gyes

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