Sentences with phrase «direct handlers and dogs»

Judges design their courses by choosing from more than four dozen stations that direct handlers and dogs to perform specific exercises.

Not exact matches

The dog is directed over the obstacles by the handler who needs to rely on hand signals, body movements and verbal commands to help the dog clear the obstacles.

At its highest levels, agility requires handlers to use voice and body language to direct their dogs over obstacles in ever - changing courses, demonstrating the ultimate in human / canine communication.

There is one major error that the Marshall might make, which is to direct you to go to the holding blind and then ask you to leave it so that another handler and dog can run before you.

For general exercise, not in the competition arena, the dog owner or handler walks or runs around the course and directs and controls the dog while he's off his leash.

Handler uses hand signals, whistles and voice signals to help direct the dog.

We are seeing a direct correlation between dogs who simply can not focus on their handlers in class, whose owners report that they take them for regular outings to the dog park and / or enroll them in day care.

Agility — a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy Obedience Trials — Obedience competitions begin with exercises that attest to the dog's good manners — walking on a leash at the owner's side, standing to be touched by a stranger, sitting and lying down with distractions, and coming when called.

Agility for Fun: a human handler and dog function as a team as the handler directs the dog over hurdles, through tunnels, weave poles and a variety of contact obstacles that make up a course.

A second member of the group pointed out that dogs live in a sea of human verbal sounds and the dog's name serves to alert the dog to the fact that the next set of sounds coming from the handler's mouth is directed at them, rather than being part of a conversation that you might be having with another human being.

Competition dog agility is where a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy.