Go-Get-’Em Agility Podcast

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Go-Get-’Em Agility Podcast episodes

March 12, 2024 Episode 46: Top 5 Training Skills for Dogs and Handlers
Episode 46: Top 5 Training Skills for Dogs and Handlers ** Margaret and Emma discuss their top 5 training skills for dogs and handlers, and how they help with agility. If only able to train 5 things for agility, what would they be??

Two Target Game: https://youtu.be/qDHgYJN-aps

Hand Position Matters: https://youtu.be/IZ6ViGgKBH0

Emma's Rear Cross Flip Game: https://youtu.be/EF0caU-YbHE

1 hr 2 min
February 29, 2024 Episode 45: Introducing Teeter Training in New Locations
Episode 45: Introducing Teeter Training in New Locations

Margaret discusses with Emma what she learned from Eli about training a teeter on her own, how to help your dog develop the skills to handle the teeter at speed and using this information to introduce new teeters, in new locations to your dog in preparation for the trial environment.

An agility dog benefits greatly from two important teeter factors, lots of positive history on the teeter, and experience with multiple teeters in multiple locations.

Eli Teeter Training in New Locations: https://youtu.be/w2ii8DknC18

Eli's bounce grid to teeter: https://youtu.be/XU6fv7a28gs

1 hr 1 min
February 26, 2024 Episode 44: Eli's First Trial - What Really Happened Behind the Scenes
Episode 44: Eli's First Trial - What Really Happened Behind the Scenes ** We did a thing, we trialed together. Listen to Margaret recount the day of Eli's first AKC agility trial to Emma.
1 hr 10 min
February 14, 2024 Episode 43: Agility is Confusing
Episode 43: Agility is Confusing

** Join Margaret as she talks about all the different ways that agility can be confusing, but at the heart of it all, listen to your dog and keep their confidence up!
30 min
January 25, 2024 Episode 42: Let's Stress About Stress
Episode 42: Let's Stress About Stress ** Unqualified to really help you, listen to Margaret and Emma's strategies for dealing with stress in agility.
59 min
January 05, 2024 Episode 41: Contacts, I Mean Weave Poles
Episode 41: Contacts, I Mean Weave Poles

** 12/7/2001 Margaret wrote the follow during a Susan Garrett seminar, "If you need to help your dog w/ contacts - your dog doesn't know contacts." Follow along as Margaret and Emma discuss this same principle with regards weave poles and suggestions on how to go about helping your dog know weave poles.
35 min
December 29, 2023 Episode 40: 2024 Goals in Agility
Episode 40: 2024 Goals in Agility
** Join Margaret as she talks you through building or not building agility goals for 2024.

Tiny book, 79 pages. On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals by Turid Rugass
29 min
December 11, 2023 Episode 39: Book Discussion -Developing Handling Skills by Linda Mecklenburg
Episode 39:Book Discussion -Developing Handling Skills by Linda Mecklenburg

** Listen in with Margaret and Emma as we discuss what Margaret thinks are the main threads throughout Linda Mecklenburg's book "Developing Handling Skills"

Ebook: https://www.cleanrun.com/product/developing_handling_skills_e_book/index.cfm

Portion of the in-depth Zigzag Exercise available in the April 2009 Clean Run magazine: https://www.cleanrun.com/product/clean_run_magazine_april_2009/index.cfm

Linda's website Awesome Paws Agility Academy: https://awesomepawsagilityacademy.com
35 min
November 26, 2023 Episode 38: Dog Sports Derby
Episode 38: Dog Sports Derby ** Apologies right off the start line, I keep referencing the name of the sports arena as Derby Dog Sports, when in fact, it is called Dog Sports Derby. https://www.facebook.com/dogsportsderby or https://dogsportsderby.com/

Lovely facility and incredible day of agility, dogs and handlers alike were on top form.
32 min
November 09, 2023 Episode 37: Reactivity - Eli Part 2
Episode 37: Reactivity - Eli Part 2

**Listen in as I explain how I have helped Eli to work through his reactivity triggers and where we are at.

Pattern Games: Tracy Skelnar https://braincampflix.com/

http://www.controlunleashed.net/about.html
29 min