Course Details
Many dogs start out their agility career with good stopped contacts. But over time, the criteria changes and the desired behavior morphs into something completely undesirable. Why does this happen?
This class will specifically focus on the end position behavior of stopped contacts. It will benefit dogs that are trialing as well as young dogs that are learning the skills from scratch.
It is strongly recommended that you stop trialing your dog while you work through the retraining of the desired behavior.
If you plan on taking this class, I highly recommend that you take AG140 - Building and Maintaining a Start Line even if your dog's start line is good. We build from that class and by having worked through the steps, you will progress much faster through this class.
**** IMPORTANT **** This class will focus specifically on stopped contact position training. It will not focus on teaching or retraining execution of any of the three contacts previous outside of the stopped position. Many times (but not always) contact execution issues are related to stopped contact behavior confusion. And once the handling and the position has been taught and clean, the confidence will improve in contact execution previous to that position. If you have a young dog that is new to contact training, there are other FDSA classes that can focus completely on training the individual contacts.
Instructor: Nancy Gagliardi LittleNancy Gagliardi Little has been training dogs since the early 1980s, when she put an OTCH on her Novice A dog, a Labrador retriever. Since then she has put many advanced obedience titles on her dogs, including 4 AKC OTCH titles, 6 UD titles, 3 UDX titles, and multiple
