Use the Tire for Dog Agility Training

Video Transcript

" This is Elise Paffrath with Breeze Thru Agility. I am talking about beginner dog agility training on behalf of Expert Village.com. One of the other obstacles we teach the dogs to do is the tire. It is a hoop and the dog is required to jump through the middle of the hoop. The way that I would like to introduce it to dogs, is leave them in a stay, come around and do a recall through the tire. Okay Scout. Come. Good girl. I also like to introduce, Scouty the target, so the dog can learn to go ahead and do the tire on their own, Okay. Tire. Touch. Good girl. When the dogs become very, very good at it lower, you want to start to raise it, so that the dog is jumping a little higher and doesn’t go underneath, Okay. Go, Tire. Good girl. Once the dog is very comfortable doing it lower, you can raise it only one link at a time, so that they don’t misunderstand and think that you want them to just go through the frame of the tire. If you are using a clicker, you want to click right when they are going through the middle, which is very helpful in tire training, Okay!, I marked the behavior right as she was in the middle of the hoop. That is the tire obstacle."