I'm wanting to take my 9 month old Staffy female to agility training classes in nottingham and can't find one near enough! I live in arnold and would like one to go to that is a close as possible to me.

Please could you post some URL's for me to check out?
Thank you.

You cant take pups to agility until they are at least 12 months old, they are fully formed and their bones mature, so jumping and particularily weaves could do dmage to their spine etc, you could get yourself booked into a club if you manage to find one, then just wait the few months x

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You could try this, I know they do a pre-agility class:

Agility Nuts

Thank you, I'll check it out.

Still need more places to check out please! x

Hi,

I am also looking for agility in nottingham for my staffie, and stumbled across your post.

My Mum used to take her dog to a club called S.H.Y agility over in Farnsfield (but had to quit when her dog kept running away!) They don't have a web address but are on yell.com

There is also Nottingham Agility and Dog Training Club (NADTC), but they are based in Selston: NADTC Website

I remember my Mum having this same problem, and looks like the club at Bingham may be the closest, but drop me a line as we may be able to sort something out between us (I also live in Arnold), we could terrorise them with our staffies together! (Don't know if yours has the same "selective hearing syndrome" as mine!)

I will ask at dog training next Monday and update you with any further

Hi

If you've not found anywhere yet, I go to agility near to Southwell. Fantastic trainer for all types of dog training and agility.

Details of all our dog training classes over the coming months

Give Wendy a ring she really knows what she is talking about. THe club is about 7 miles from Arnold at Halam.

Chris x

Hi Don't know if you managed to find any local agility training. We have recently extended SmartPaws Agility Training to Grendon (Nr. Tamworth, Staffs). Take a look at our website at Home

Anyone have contact number for Dorothy Hill?

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agility.net was the first place I tried... I'm finding navigation of that site problematic.

A Google search found her as the winner at a local competition, but not "useful publicity". I can ask on Sunday, was given it before but lost number.

dorothy hill site:www.agilitynet.com - Google Search

First time I saw that, Google whacks were the least informative responses for me before today.

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For eager & reliable recall, be fun for the dog to come back to! Then often send them off right away to do what they wanted!
DT&B - Glossary of acronyms & jargon terms.
Encouraging good behaviours, whilst consistently avoiding practise of bad alternatives leads to extinction of the bad. So if dog sits 6/10 times it doesn't sit 4/10 times, encouraging with the right rewards (positively-reinforcing) enough for 9/10 times means it now fails to sit only 1/10 times, sit 10/10 means...