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® Cover THE MAGAZINE FOR DOG AGILITY ENTHUSIASTS PHOTOS © KELLY BOVE, WWW.MATTALLISONPHOTOGRAPHY.COM, ALISSA BEHN/PET-PERSONALITIES.COM 21 As the World Turns: Front Cross This month we will cover the front cross in which the handler is moving past the plane of the jump. The dog usually has a perpendicular or slight slice approach By Mary Ellen Barry JULY 16 VOLUME 22 60 32 Judge's Eye: Spinning Wheel Got to Go Round, Part 2 When it comes to wheeling a course, yardage, and time calculations, there is a great diversity among the organizations. Here we'll look at how CPE, USDAA, and ASCA calculate standard course times. By Cindy Deak NUMBER 07 How to Train Legendary Lead-Outs, Part 5 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 15 A Balancing Act: The ThreeLegged Stool of Behavior Change, Part 1 How you approach changing a behavioral challenge is critical to the outcome. Using the model of a three-legged stool helps us understand how to balance and integrate the most critical elements of a successful behavior modification program. By Terry Long, CPDT-KA 40 Dialing in on the Same Wavelength as Your Dog Dogs are hardwired to dial in to and adjust to the energy level around them and often demonstrate an extra sense that enables them to pick up on the energy field of other animals and mirror the energetic state of their close pack/family members. By Kathy Lofthouse Features 5 Editorializing: Why I Do Agility For some people, agility is very serious business, but for many others it is a stress-relieving activity that gives them quality time with their dogs and a chance to escape the stresses of everyday life. By Janielle Daniels 11 Return to Agility after Achilles Tendon Injury Achilles tendon rupture is a common tendon injury among dogs. Mature medium to largebreed active dogs seem to be most commonly affected by this type of injury. By Lauri-Jo Gamble, DVM and Debra Canapp, DVM, CCRT, CVA, DACVSMR 35 On Course with Robert Michalski Rob has been in agility as long as almost anybody in the US. While he wishes that he knew 25 years ago what he knows now, Rob is not letting age slow him down! By Sally Silverman 46 Canine Training and Behavior Q&A Do you have a dog that searches the sky for birds and or even chases imaginary birds? There are several possibilities for what could be motivating this behavior. By Tom Mitchell 48 Team Small Dog Agility Humility: La Vida Phantasmagoria Nobody really cares about you. It's a fact that's easy to forget in the moment, until you practice it and get used to it. You train, don't complain. Move on, shake it off, remember that failure's the stepping stone to success and success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. By Laura Hartwick 58 The Construction Zone: PVC Wing Jump Plans for building a solid and attractive PVC wing jump. By Kim Duff Columns 38 Puppy Skills for Total Team Performance: Cones, Toys, and Paying Attention This month we are building on our past work with impulse control, focus, and attention while teaching the puppy simple handling skills around a cone. By Frankie Joiris and Chris Ott 6 Tip of the Month By Deborah Davidson Harpur 7 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility... By Brenna Fender 8 43 Tunnel It This month's drills require getting your dog to a jump positioned between two straight tunnels. By Nancy Gyes The Judge's Debriefing By Scott Lovelis 53 Backyard Dogs By Mia Grant 55 Sense of Self: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Handling Systems The key to taking full advantage of a set of rules is to learn and practice them well enough to eventually be able to break them with poise and fluency. By Tori Self 63 Novice and Beyond- A Survival Guide: Training Insurance and Protecting Your Investment When you do training drills to teach your dog an important concept, you must keep that concept alive in other areas of your training and in everyday life with the dog. It's like buying insurance on what you are training; it protects all the success you accomplished. By Sandy Rogers Cover Dog Windblown Suzy's Lizzy Lou AX, AXJ, OF, TD, NW2, a.k.a. Lizzy, a 6-year-old Labrador Retriever owned by Ellen McNelly of Virginia. Photo by Stewart Event Images. 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 1995-2016 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. July 16 | Clean Run 3 http://WWW.MATTALLISONPHOTOGRAPHY.COM

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