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Old 05-09-2008, 11:43 AM
SigTau66 SigTau66 is offline
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Re: Lack of Attention in Agility When a Border Collie is Around

Thanks for the suggestions, but after last night I think I'm going to give up on agility with Kalil. I'll try Abby at agility when she gets through enough obedience.

Along with his not paying attention again last night, we had an incident with the border collie. The border collie had just did the A frame and Kalil went right up after him for his turn. Well the border collie surprised us and jumped back on the end of the A frame. Kalil reacted when the dog bumped into him and then the border collie went nuts for about 5 seconds snapping at Kalil who tried getting away by bumping into my knee with his big noggin and bruising it real nicely. Nobody was to blame. It was just one of those things, but the worse part was everybody's reaction. Even though it was the border collie doing all the noise making and display, my dog was the monster. After that point a lot of the women in the class were shying their dogs away from Kalil.

I might offer up Kalil for training to the woman with the border collie. She's a part time trainer there and has told me she would love to work with Kalil in agility.
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