Have you ever flipped through your TV channels and watched a dog jumping over obstacles, running through tunnels, contorting its body in a seemingly unbelievable fashion as it courses its way through weave poles, all the time immensly enjoying itself? Congratulations, as you’ve undoubtedly witnessed an agility competition.

Agility pairs a human and dog, usually its owner, in a sport where the team with the fastest elapsed time are the winners. Points are deducted (in the form of seconds added to a dog’s completed time) if an obstacle is missed or the dog refuses to make a jump or run through an obstacle. It’s important to note that the dog is not always to blame in the event a mistake is made. Many times its human counterpart gives it incorrrect signals that prompt the dog to turn the wrong way, run through a tunnel instead of a set of weave poles, etc.

A typical agility trial starts when a dog trips a timer at the beginning of a pre-designed course. The course can include jumps set at a height that consider a dog’s size, tunnels that a dog must run through, a steeply inclined A-frame that requires the dog to speed up one side and down the other, a pause table where a dog needs to come to a complete stop for five seconds, weave poles and a variety of other items that are challenging to the dog. Equipment used on an agility course can be found here.

Not to be overlooked is the bond that has been strengthened between man (or woman) and dog as hours of enjoyable training were realized as both prepared for their agility trial. This is perhaps best evidenced by the happy expressions on the team of human and dog as they work their way through the course. For many, merely completing an agility course with no faults is rewarding enough as the team has then attained the much coveted “clean run” status.

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