Agility for Enrichment and Fun - Dog Training 

glad you liked them :)

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Yay! Thank you!

Agree with you that Emily should be more famous. Zak is a nice guy but Emily, by far, is a better trainer.

@@Karen-to8jr Exsactly! he’s a nice guy and means well but 1. His Two year old dog that he’s been training to walk on a loose leash Since eight weeks old still pulls like a madman 2. He’s horrible at marking. Either he marks to early or too late. A prime example is his new video when the pitbull disengaged multiple times off of the ducks by itself and not once did he mark that behavior/decision 3. He only got famous because he was a trick trainer on animal planet as a teen 4. his dog has behavioral issues sense puppyhood 5. I have yet to see real results other than frisbee training and a few tricks

Thanks I will also add the automatically generated translations tomorrow

Hehe that's so cool!

Thanks for watching!

Oh awesome! Hehe!

Awe thanks so much! :) I loved talking at clicker expo but I decided I wanted to focus my time on creating free educational content.

Oh yay! I am glad it was motivating

Oh the plungers inside great! And good idea about the weaves, I should have mentioned it, I made sure to have the dog with the left shoulder in the video but didnt mention it.

That's cool how they copy each other! I do find videos motivate me! So when Im feeling uninspired I look at my favorite trainers stuff.

@@kikopup Yes, it's really cool! I occasionally foster dogs as well, and it's amazing to see how quickly they become part of the pack and take over our routines. I ask my dogs to wait a little before eating so it's clear which bowl belongs to which dog and there's no pushing each other out of the way. The foster dogs all follow this within a week, with barely any encouragement! It's such a feat, especially considering the feeding situation shelter in Serbia where they're from; with 750 dogs, more or less, roaming freely over the (rather small, but sufficient) terrain, the carers have to just throw the food around for the dogs to .. well.. forage. Which I think is actually a quite natural way for dogs to feed, no? It must be an enormous adaptation coming from there to here in a regular home in Belgium. And they usually do amazingly well. Dogs are awesome. 😎 I'm very grateful for you to take the time to make these videos and share your knowledge about interacting with dogs in a positive and kind manner. The more people realize it works and learn how to do it themselves, the better everyone - dogs and humans - will be for it!

You don't have to go outside if it's uncomfortable there. Someone in the comments mentioned using plumbers as weaving poles and everything else in the video can just be brought inside. Have fun!

I suggest www.lolabuland.com/ Silvia Trkmans online courses :)

@@kikopup ~$300 is a bit steep for me right now with just pets, but I absolutely will take these with my next pup who I would like to actually do sports with, thank you for the recommendation! Her DVD's are also an affordable option, about ~$50! You just won't have the direct feedback from her which is important in competition!

OMG, it's Kiko!! (I just watched the whole video.) What a lil lovey!

Just a heads up: don't do contact obstacles or anything that will be hard on the joints because when a dog is overweight all of that weight is hitting the joints whenever they jump or otherwise hit the floor, weaves, tunnels, and "around" are great! Just keep all 4 paws on the ground or only do activities where they are stepping over something, not jumping (so very low jumps for example!) Diet also helps more than exercise with weight loss, though I totally understand this being difficult with the family member with dementia, but you might try a diet dog food if you are just using regular dog food and trying to portion control, it has helped my senior pup loads, she has severe arthritis in her hips and while we do take long walks every morning, when she was on regular dog food she couldn't lose a pound! I use Purina ONE SmartBlend Natural Healthy Weight Formula, if you have the budget for it you might ask your vet for a prescription option that might work better as well! They just tend to be much pricier than over the counter foods (for example, my pup with GI problems is on Royal Canin Hydrolyzed Protein, 23.5 lbs is $110).

@@aphyngodiva2551 Thanks. Yeah. I was planning on keeping the jumps - for her - to more of a cavaletti or 'high step' jumps. Like make her pick up her feet a little. Even at a healthier weight, she's NOT built for jumping (though she can jump a little and pops herself over fallen logs when we encounter them. But I wouldn't ask it of her.). Right now, she's healthy. We just had a vet-check and while the vet wants her to loose weight, obviously, after explaining the situation to her, she told me to not stress over it - because that would transfer to the dog and make things worse on us both. That said I HAVE made some dietary changes for her and it helps. . .sort of. We see results if I can get the sick person to cooperate. Then he slips and starts feeding her and it goes right back up. grrr. (Frustrating because we have NEVER had a problem with overweight pets before.) We did have a bit of an experiment - when he went into the hospital for a month, and I cleaned up her diet, she started losing very nicely. Like we could see her actual shape again, and she was feeling pretty good. Then he came back and within two weeks she was up again. -sigh- Our conclusion is that it's a combination of the food he's slipping her (I try to watch it, but he does things when we're not looking and literally sneaks her stuff. Grr. Today I caught him multiple times - then he gave her his salad bowl with all the left-over dressing. Ugh!) and the incredibly stressful atmosphere that's going on in here right now. It's effecting the rest of us too, and I am fairly sure she feels it. So all I can do is my best until something changes and hope that I can help her (and myself) get better when things are a bit more normal. The vet said that meanwhile, she's bringing him comfort - and doing her job as a dog. So it's not a terrible thing.

@@Elentarien Sounds like you've got everything figured out then! I just wanted to mention the food change thing because I saw it touted as the number one thing on the internet to just feed less and less, I seriously decreased my dog's food to 1/4 cup a day, she was miserable, and STILL not losing any weight, it was awful! It was only when I switched her food that she finally started making progress, and it still upsets me that I never see this mentioned anywhere. :( I totally understand with not having the family member on board and that probably being the primary cause, my husband had the same problem with his family and his dog, unfortunately people aren't as easy to train as dogs :P Especially when they have dementia or Alzheimer's! His grandma started with dementia then went into Alzheimers, honestly a lot of her feeding the dog wasn't even her fault, she had severe motor issues/shaked a whole bunch and would often shake her food off her fork and to the ground for the dog, and they couldn't afford to hire a care taker to feed her. It's definitely a case where you just do the best you can and that's good enough for what your living situation can provide! Big hugs! And I'm sure she appreciates all that you're doing for her!

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