Border Collie
Agility
How agile is your Border Collie? Well, let
me put it this way, in England, the Border Collies are
occasionally given competitions separate from other
competitions with mixed breeds. That’s how agile a Border
Collie is, the dog is top of the list when it comes down to
agility!
The agility event for dogs is a sport in
which Border Collies dominate on, for they are the most
energetic species of dog. The sport consists of trials and
obstacles that are set by the judges of the said sports. Each
event has a time in which it needs to be accomplished, and
points are added and deducted for completing in the best time,
and not finishing with the time limit, respectively.
Your Border Collie has the speed and the
motivation to do well in these events, and this is considered
to be an asset and also a disadvantage. The dog may decide he
wants to do a specific obstacle first, and try and go around
the trial in the incorrect way and suchlike. To cope with this,
it is the handlers responsibility to teach the dog to recognize
the names of the trials and obstacles, and he or she must be
ready to give the name of the next section of the event, when
the dog is close to completing the current section that he or
she may be in. To succeed in these competitions, it isn’t just
down to the dog to be great, the handlers must know the timing
and when to give the next command an so on.
Unlike other dog breeds, the Border Collie
can work faster if the handler is at a distance and not by its
side. The Border Collie is a herding breed and needs little
assistance from his handler in accomplishing the obstacles
given to him. A dog is faster than a human, and if the handler
is by his side, he may just slow the dog down. As long as your
Border Collie can follow certain commands such as stop, go,
around and so forth, he will do well in the event. You need to
teach a Collie to anticipate before you even teach him what he
is meant to be anticipating! This means training him to do
something by command and not just by pure instinct. You have to
be bale to move and think faster than the movements of your
over excited Border Collie.
In an agility obstacle course, the Border
Collie is the most cheered for its speed, grace and sheer
athletic ability. They may not be the most accurate, because of
their hyper characteristics and may be beaten by a slower dog
because of an incomplete task or an un-sequential task but as
I’ve mentioned, they are the most cheered at and if the handler
is good than the Border Collie will dominate this sport.
Now, lets get to another sport that a Border
Collie does well in. It is the relatively new sport of fly
ball. This sport is a test of true agility and speed and again,
most dogs that enter this competition are Border Collies, for
it is the perfect dog for a perfect speed and agility game!
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