I’ve been doing agility with Chester for about half a year now. For a couch-potato dog, he loves it! And we’re going to get Lola started soon. I was going to buy a tire jump from Affordable Agility; it was only about $50. DH said he could build one — I knew he could, but I didn’t expect he’d build one in one day!

So here are some photos of the dogs practicing on our home agility field. More obstacles coming soon.

Weave poles are one of the hardest obstacles to train. You can see Chester’s a bit stressed out here; he’s licking his nose.

A bit happier

Lola shows off another stressed symptom while weaving — whale eye, where some of the white is showing. Or maybe she’s just watching me closely. Weaving doesn’t come easily to either of them.

Chester likes to jump

Lola often has trouble learning new behaviors. Here you can see she’s very hesitant about the tire jump — she’s looking away & licking her nose.

She soon learned to enjoy it

Don’t ask me why she closes her eyes!

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