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I am reading Mr. and Mrs. Dog and I am finding it quite a good read. If you have not already read Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men, it is a good read also. It was my favorite book of 2011.

I started with rollers that young with my dog, but only for a few minutes a day and only when he was at peak energy. I started by moving the disk along the ground like i might with a towel, but I did not let him catch it. I did this to build up drive for the disk. Once Dexter was focusing on it I started rolling it. I always had a second disk to roll as soon as he dropped the first. Always roll the second one so he as to run buy you to get it. I mostly rolled rollers until he was over a year old. Occasionally i might throw it but I would keep it low and short. Keep the work out short and positive and never let him have the Frisbee unless you are working with him. Never let him get bored with it. Also if i had two pups I would work with them one at a time. The best place to cheap discs is Discovering the World. www.dtworld.com. Just ask for Fastback misprints. Good luck

I have a larger hard sided crate for trials. I don't want to mess with it just for class. I am looking for something light and easy to set up and tear down.

Yes I am, group lessons once a week is hard to get anything accomplished.

Thank's everyone. It is clear I need to learn more about rear crosses, but my goal for this exercise was to learn how to work further from my dog. Attaching a verbal cue to it like jump left seems to be the answer.

I am working with my young Border Collie in the back yard. I have a jump set up on the right and a table set up on the left, nearly side by side. The goal is to sent him over the jump and then on to the table crossing behind him. If I send him over the jump, standing on his right, he goes over the jump starts to turn right and then goes left on to the table. But if I start him standing on his left, he turns left straight away on to the table. I have tried turning my shoulders towards the table sooner but then he does not go over the jump. Any Suggestions He is a fast dog and I am not (fast that is). I am trying to learn to work further away from him. Thanks PS I like herding better because you just get to stand in one spot

I am looking for a soft crate for agility classes any suggestions. It looks like the Noz2Noz makes a good product, anything else I should look at. Good construction and ease of setup and tear down would be a high priority for me. I have seen a nice review of several different soft crates but now I can't find it. Also Dexter is a bout 40 Lb. a 30" crate would be fine right? He would not spend that much time in it, just during class. I have a big harded side crate for trials. Thanks

Wow 2 or 3 months in a crate, Dexter would be bouncing off the walls. I hope that's not the cure Thanks

Dexter is only 1 1/2 years old and there is no hip problem in his lineage. Three times he has had mystery limps, on his right back leg, that did not seem to have a cause. He would wakeup limping but after a walk he was putting weight on it. After a couple of days in the crate and some rimadyl he was fine. No sign of trouble at all. After the third time I decided to have his hip x-rayed just to eliminate that from the list of possibilities. The right hip (the hip he was limping on) was not as round as the left. There was a flat spot on the back of the joint. Both hips are well seated it was the flat spot that was causing concern with the vet. I will have the hips X-rayed again when he is two and have them rated. The Vet said he did not know for sure but it was a possibility that the hips will not be rated as high good. I was just wondering if there is something I can do to help. There are a lot of (unsubstantiated apparently) food supplements that claim miracles. This tends to be a down to earth group of folks, if there was something that actually worked you guys would know. Again thanks for your help

Is there something specifically in the chicken necks that is good for joints or is it bones and marrow in general? He gets a steady supply of raw beef soup bones from Publics

Sorry for my ignorance but what is HA and do you feed the chicken necks raw? Thanks

I have seen a lot of different suggestions about food additives that somehow help with dog hip problems. Do any of these really work, if yes what would you suggest Thanks

Yep, called them a couple of times during the MONTH and got the same answer "we are temporarily out of stock but we will have it shipped this week". Here is why I will not use them again. 1. Why did they take my money in the first place if the item was not in stock. Every good online site indicates before ordering if the product is in stock. 2. Why did it take a complain to Paypal to get my money back. I had email them twice asking for a refund and they ignored both. A nice I am, very sorry about your order here is a refund, would have gone along ways

Hey just a warning, don't buy anything from doggiefood.com I bought something from them over a month ago and I never got it. I email them several times to cancel the order and they did not reply. I had to filed a Paypal complaint to get my money back.

Sorry I got it. It finally sank in to my thick skull. Thanks

I understand that Rave but at what point do you ask the dog to stop going through just 2 openings and start going through 4. Not until the polls are all the way together or when they get close? If it's when they get close how close is close. Thanks

I am watching Susan Garrett's 2 X 2 weave polls DVD. She is a little vague about how and win she transitions from the dog going through 2 sets of polls and when she moves them together and the dog weaves through 4 polls. One moment the dog is going through two polls like a doorway and then the next there are pushed together like weave polls, without much explanation. seems like a big jump. Do you just slide them together and the dog starts weaving, that seems to simple. Thans