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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  Nope! Both Eddie and Jillie do the see saw, and it just takes a bit longer for their weight to make it move, but I've seen them do it. Alaskayorkie has a bunch of vids on youtube of them doing agility. I've always wanted to enroll Uni but classes are a bit expensive. |
Oh, man, you're bragging us up pretty good! Hope I can back it up!
Little dogs can definitely do agility! Eddie competed one summer in NADAC (North American Dog Agility Council), which offers different types of courses than just the standard course run by AKC. And NADAC doesn't do the teeter, which was Eddie's nemesis. He can do the teeter on my wooden teeter at home, but he freaks out with the heavy metal teeter at trials.
In NADAC, they run a standard course that includes everything but the teeter. But they also have some fun courses: jumpers, tunnelers and weavers. It was a LOT of fun. Eddie competed in the 8" class against mostly Dachshunds. He won every race he completed (the Doxies were slow!), and he met the qualifying standard in Novice eight times out of about 15 races.
He was supposed to do 8" jumps based on his height, but there was a category that allowed him to jump 4", so I opted for that. He has bad knees and I didn't want to push it. In fact, he since has had surgery on one leg and I pulled him out of agility altogether. The surgery was for a snow-related injury, not agility itself.
Jillie took one class in agility and was shaping up to be my shining star, but she too has leg problems. She was diagnosed with Level 1 LP, so I pulled her out of agility. Vet and fellow competitors all said she could still compete, but I opted against it. I want her as healthy as she can be for as long as she can be.
Here are a few random vids:
Eddie running a weaver's course
Eddie's first trial (jumper's course and tunneler's course)
Eddie running standard course (this was his crowning achievement)
Jillie's one class: