Beth F. wrote:

It looks like our club is never going to be accepted as an AKC club

Bummer. Any idea why not? Does your club do UKC and/or NADAC?

Beth

"Bethgsd" wrote in message
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Beth F. wrote:

It looks like our club is never going to be accepted as an AKC club

Bummer. Any idea why not? Does your club do UKC and/or NADAC?

Beth

yup. politics!!
the club isn't sanctioned as anything, no and won't consider anything else.
pisses me off.

"Bethgsd" wrote in message
...
Beth F. wrote:

It looks like our club is never going to be accepted as an AKC club

Bummer. Any idea why not? Does your club do UKC and/or NADAC?

Beth

yup. politics!!
the club isn't sanctioned as anything, no and won't consider anything else.
pisses me off.

"Bethgsd" wrote in message
...
Beth F. wrote:

It looks like our club is never going to be accepted as an AKC club

Bummer. Any idea why not? Does your club do UKC and/or NADAC?

Beth

yup. politics!!
the club isn't sanctioned as anything, no and won't consider anything else.
pisses me off.

"Bethgsd" wrote in message
...
Beth F. wrote:

It looks like our club is never going to be accepted as an AKC club

Bummer. Any idea why not? Does your club do UKC and/or NADAC?

Beth

yup. politics!!
the club isn't sanctioned as anything, no and won't consider anything else.
pisses me off.

Rocky wrote:
KrisHur said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:


The area sounds great and the fence sounds fine, but I
wanted to say build your own a-frame and dog walk! It's
very easy and much, much, much cheaper. These are two items
that are easily built, save your money for things that
cannot be easily built--a good teeter base and weave poles.


Stuck-in-ground weave poles work well for me, though they have
to go in before the ground freezes. Electric fencing poles with
3/4" PVC slipped over the poles (less than $20).


Depends on dog size and drive. For smaller dogs and for just starting
out stick in the grounds can be fine, but I've learned from my own big
dogs that it's best to graduate to stiff poles as soon as possible.

Viva was started with stick in the grounds on channel weaves, and it
worked great until I started moving them together. Then she started
simply knocking them out of the way with each passage. Not only did that
mean I had to move them frequently as she "wallowed" out the spike
holes, but it also meant that she didn't learn how to weave against
resistance. And what *that* meant was that once she hit anchored, stiff
weaves on a regular basis, she started getting hung in them. And after
getting hung a number of times--she once uprooted a set and carried it
with her to the tunnel--she started slowing down. She now has very
decent weaves, but not superfast ones.

So I started Cala on a good weave base from day one. She's adapted
better, but I still need to get to work with her on an anchored
set--ours at the building aren't anchored and her way of going through
is to simply get them shaking horizontally so she can blast through.
Hopefully long term she'll keep more of her lightning fast weave speed
than Viva was able to.

Rocky wrote:
KrisHur said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:


The area sounds great and the fence sounds fine, but I
wanted to say build your own a-frame and dog walk! It's
very easy and much, much, much cheaper. These are two items
that are easily built, save your money for things that
cannot be easily built--a good teeter base and weave poles.


Stuck-in-ground weave poles work well for me, though they have
to go in before the ground freezes. Electric fencing poles with
3/4" PVC slipped over the poles (less than $20).


Depends on dog size and drive. For smaller dogs and for just starting
out stick in the grounds can be fine, but I've learned from my own big
dogs that it's best to graduate to stiff poles as soon as possible.

Viva was started with stick in the grounds on channel weaves, and it
worked great until I started moving them together. Then she started
simply knocking them out of the way with each passage. Not only did that
mean I had to move them frequently as she "wallowed" out the spike
holes, but it also meant that she didn't learn how to weave against
resistance. And what *that* meant was that once she hit anchored, stiff
weaves on a regular basis, she started getting hung in them. And after
getting hung a number of times--she once uprooted a set and carried it
with her to the tunnel--she started slowing down. She now has very
decent weaves, but not superfast ones.

So I started Cala on a good weave base from day one. She's adapted
better, but I still need to get to work with her on an anchored
set--ours at the building aren't anchored and her way of going through
is to simply get them shaking horizontally so she can blast through.
Hopefully long term she'll keep more of her lightning fast weave speed
than Viva was able to.

Rocky wrote:
KrisHur said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:


The area sounds great and the fence sounds fine, but I
wanted to say build your own a-frame and dog walk! It's
very easy and much, much, much cheaper. These are two items
that are easily built, save your money for things that
cannot be easily built--a good teeter base and weave poles.


Stuck-in-ground weave poles work well for me, though they have
to go in before the ground freezes. Electric fencing poles with
3/4" PVC slipped over the poles (less than $20).


Depends on dog size and drive. For smaller dogs and for just starting
out stick in the grounds can be fine, but I've learned from my own big
dogs that it's best to graduate to stiff poles as soon as possible.

Viva was started with stick in the grounds on channel weaves, and it
worked great until I started moving them together. Then she started
simply knocking them out of the way with each passage. Not only did that
mean I had to move them frequently as she "wallowed" out the spike
holes, but it also meant that she didn't learn how to weave against
resistance. And what *that* meant was that once she hit anchored, stiff
weaves on a regular basis, she started getting hung in them. And after
getting hung a number of times--she once uprooted a set and carried it
with her to the tunnel--she started slowing down. She now has very
decent weaves, but not superfast ones.

So I started Cala on a good weave base from day one. She's adapted
better, but I still need to get to work with her on an anchored
set--ours at the building aren't anchored and her way of going through
is to simply get them shaking horizontally so she can blast through.
Hopefully long term she'll keep more of her lightning fast weave speed
than Viva was able to.

Rocky wrote:
KrisHur said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:


The area sounds great and the fence sounds fine, but I
wanted to say build your own a-frame and dog walk! It's
very easy and much, much, much cheaper. These are two items
that are easily built, save your money for things that
cannot be easily built--a good teeter base and weave poles.


Stuck-in-ground weave poles work well for me, though they have
to go in before the ground freezes. Electric fencing poles with
3/4" PVC slipped over the poles (less than $20).


Depends on dog size and drive. For smaller dogs and for just starting
out stick in the grounds can be fine, but I've learned from my own big
dogs that it's best to graduate to stiff poles as soon as possible.

Viva was started with stick in the grounds on channel weaves, and it
worked great until I started moving them together. Then she started
simply knocking them out of the way with each passage. Not only did that
mean I had to move them frequently as she "wallowed" out the spike
holes, but it also meant that she didn't learn how to weave against
resistance. And what *that* meant was that once she hit anchored, stiff
weaves on a regular basis, she started getting hung in them. And after
getting hung a number of times--she once uprooted a set and carried it
with her to the tunnel--she started slowing down. She now has very
decent weaves, but not superfast ones.

So I started Cala on a good weave base from day one. She's adapted
better, but I still need to get to work with her on an anchored
set--ours at the building aren't anchored and her way of going through
is to simply get them shaking horizontally so she can blast through.
Hopefully long term she'll keep more of her lightning fast weave speed
than Viva was able to.

Robin Nuttall said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

Stuck-in-ground weave poles work well for me, though they
have to go in before the ground freezes. Electric fencing
poles with 3/4" PVC slipped over the poles (less than
$20).

Depends on dog size and drive. For smaller dogs and for
just starting out stick in the grounds can be fine, but
I've learned from my own big dogs that it's best to
graduate to stiff poles as soon as possible.

Both Friday and Rocky pound through my stick-in-the-ground
poles; maybe it's because my soil has been really compacted in
the weave area (and that it contains a lot of clay), but the
worst that's happened has been the odd pvc tube being flung off
the fiberglass pole.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.