Red Dog Agility

22/06/2025

🥰I've created a new course for my online subscription members! Handling Mechanics in Agility was specifically created to breakdown all my handling moves and explain when and how to use them.
🤗 As an ex dancer, one of the things I find is missing, is people practising their handling without the dog!
🤓Follow along as I break down the handling, the correct positions and timing as well show some common mistakes with the handling and what that can cause within an agility course.
If you would like to sign up for Red Dog Squad then join here -
https://www.rdagility.com/red-dog-squad
It's only $20 per month with no minimum sign up! This will automatically get you access to this new course as well as all of my others! Just make sure you have created a profile within my course platform ☺️
For more details on the course itself go here - https://courses.rdagility.com/courses/handler-mechanics

Enhance your agility handling skills by mastering essential turns and avoiding common mistakes. Elevate your performance on the course with expert techniques and insights.

03/05/2025

Did you know I now have a subscription online training group? Only $20 a month and you get access to all my courses as well as weekly content I’m constantly adding! Let me help you more personally to work out training holes and how to progress quicker and easier through any issues you might have. To see what you get in Red Dog Squad or to sign up click here - https://www.rdagility.com/red-dog-squad

Here’s a short blog of something I posted about to help a student with focus issues!

I have been wanting to show a little preview of some of the benefits of using perch games within your training and comps. 🤓

I have found over the last 5 years, that a perch is so beneficial for all sorts of scenarios and dog behaviour issues. ☺️

Benefits

• Dog's have a job to do. The reason it works so nicely for all types of training issues is that the dog's have to concentrate on the task and it takes some level of co-ordination. Their brain's are occupied and it's much harder for them to get distracted by things around them.

• Keeps the dogs head up higher. When they are on a perch their head's are up. This is very beneficial if you have a dog that reverts to sniffing easily.

• Variety. You can do so many different things with a perch. Pivot, hop on hop off, reward marker games, wait on the perch then release to you and spin around and back on. It's only limited by your imagination.

• Something to drive to, for focus forward skills. You can use a perch at the end of obstacles in place of a toy or treat and train machine. What this means is the dog can be more thoughtful than they might be with a toy placed out. But it also means if they didn't meet criteria, you can just not reward them and just spin around and go again. With a toy, they can still reward themselves when they've not met criteria.

• Clean training loops. A perch means you can have a very obvious start and finish which can really help a distracted dog to stay on task.

• Over arousal management. If your dog easily gets over aroused, a perch is a great grounding tool to bring them back down. As in my first point, it takes co-ordination skills that seems to help an over the top dog come down especially when combined with some very thoughtful reward markers that help to regulate emotional states.

Help dogs to wait for their turn better. Waiting in line at a comp or at training can be a time which is hard for your dog for various reasons. It can be that they get too excited waiting or get worried about things around them. Giving them a task that keeps them busy can help so much in hard environments.

I did up this little video to show some of these scenarios in action. 🥰

Let me know if you think this would help you in something that's an issue with your dog training/competing!

I have been wanting to show a little preview of some of the benefits of using perch games within your training and comps. 🤓

I have found over the last 5 years, that a perch is so beneficial for all sorts of scenarios and dog behaviour issues. ☺️

Benefits

• Dog's have a job to do. The reason it works so nicely for all types of training issues is that the dog's have to concentrate on the task and it takes some level of co-ordination. Their brain's are occupied and it's much harder for them to get distracted by things around them.

• Keeps the dogs head up higher. When they are on a perch their head's are up. This is very beneficial if you have a dog that reverts to sniffing easily.

• Variety. You can do so many different things with a perch. Pivot, hop on hop off, reward marker games, wait on the perch then release to you and spin around and back on. It's only limited by your imagination.

• Something to drive to, for focus forward skills. You can use a perch at the end of obstacles in place of a toy or treat and train machine. What this means is the dog can be more thoughtful than they might be with a toy placed out. But it also means if they didn't meet criteria, you can just not reward them and just spin around and go again. With a toy, they can still reward themselves when they've not met criteria.

• Clean training loops. A perch means you can have a very obvious start and finish which can really help a distracted dog to stay on task.

• Over arousal management. If your dog easily gets over aroused, a perch is a great grounding tool to bring them back down. As in my first point, it takes co-ordination skills that seems to help an over the top dog come down especially when combined with some very thoughtful reward markers that help to regulate emotional states.

• Help dogs to wait for their turn better. Waiting in line at a comp or at training can be a time which is hard for your dog for various reasons. It can be that they get too excited waiting or get worried about things around them. Giving them a task that keeps them busy can help so much in hard environments.

I did up this little video to show some of these scenarios in action. 🥰

Let me know if you think this would help you in something that's an issue with your dog training/competing!

30/03/2025

New monthly subscription starting April 1st! Red Dog Squad! 🤗

Enhance Your Dog’s Agility Training for Just $20/Month!

Join the Red Dog Agility Subscription Group and take your training to the next level with expert guidance, exclusive content, and a supportive community. 🤓

Your Membership Includes:

✅ Unlimited access to all Red Dog Agility online courses
✅ Exclusive private Facebook support group
✅ New skill-building exercises every week
✅ In-depth training session analysis of my sessions for problem-solving
✅ Targeted fitness training to improve both agility and strength
✅ Personalized video feedback through a secure coaching app for handler privacy
✅ Weekly Q&A sessions for expert advice and discussion

Invest in your dog’s agility journey today! No minimum sign up. 😃

Sign up now and training smarter!

Click here for payment link 😎

https://www.rdagility.com/red-dog-squad

01/01/2025

New Years flash sale! 50% off all my courses with discount code - ny2025
Happy New Year to everyone in the agility world!! Here's to a brand new year of making progress and achieving goals. Above all here's to a new year of being better trainers and partners for our dogs!
I have many courses that will help you and your canine partner in your agility journey. Some are agility based and some are how to help with some behavioural issues like lack of focus or over arousal. There's also a seniors fitness course that is suitable for beginners in fitness as well :)
To browse available courses go to my course website - https://courses.rdagility.com/
If you have a puppy or young dog I also have Brilliant's puppy diaries available and they are so cheap at 50% off. These are FB groups where I have added tons of videos as Brill was growing up and learning all sorts of things. They cover not only foundation skills for agility but also fitness! With some added how to manage every day stuff too 😊 Discount is already applied to the paypal section so no need for a discount code . To purchase this just go here - https://www.rdagility.com/puppyandteenagediary
If you need help choosing a course please get in touch!
Happy New Year everyone and hope it's a fab one for you all 🥰🥰

18/12/2024

Canine Fitness Consults Summer Sale! From now until the end of January I am offering 10% off my fitness consults. I can do these in person or online! To book please go here - https://booksteam.com/Customer/BookNowServices.aspx?k=d8d87b32591& and use the code SUMMERFITNESS24 to apply the discount.

During the Summer months, I really encourage my regular students to give their dogs a break from agility and focus on their fitness sessions more.

Agility is such a high impact sport, that's really tough on the dogs physically. As such, it's important to give their bodies a break from all the stresses and strains of it. Not to mention it's good for them to mentally take a break too!

On top of that, it's an inside activity which is so helpful during this super hot and humid weather.

Below shows what a difference you can make with your dog doing the exercises correctly and guided by a professional.

Even if you already have programs you use from online sources, it's worth checking that you are doing everything correctly or whether it's even beneficial for your dogs needs.

I also have a ton of experience on the how to tweak things with your reward placement and how you are positioned, that can really help get the dogs to do the exercises the way we want.

20/11/2024

I wanted to give a shout out to Red Dog Treats for their new range of fitness equipment! Despite the name they are not connected to me but they have great taste 🤣

For anyone wanting to get a set of canine fitness gear, they have plenty of options to choose from. It's all so well made and was stable and non slip with my dogs. You can choose from a few different colour options too.

Click here for all the options available and you can use RDA10 for 10% off! - https://reddogtreats.shop/collections/training

09/10/2024

I have a few pieces of Red Dog clothing available.
Red dog shirts $30 each
1 x 14 SOLD
2 x 18
1 x XL
Red Dog fleece hoodie $30
1 x 16 SOLD

28/07/2024

Last lot of National pics. These ones are from Top Dog Photography and she got some super shots 🥰

27/07/2024

Thanks so much to Vero Fojt for these super photos of the kids at the Nationals!

10/07/2024

Day 1 and Brill got an ADX Q and 3rd in his first run 😍
We won’t talk about Snooker 😂
Withdrew from JDX as that ring was terrible by the time we were due and didn’t want to risk injury for either of us!
Will see what happens but with all our JDX heats in the same ring I’m not sure we will run any of them 🙄
Gordon and Bright did some nice work but no luck in their two runs.

12/06/2024

Let me all help you with some shopping 😂

I use this massager on both myself and the dogs and it’s so good. It really helped my dogs recovery after agility, particularly Bright who gets really tight.

Had to train the dogs by putting my hand between them and the massager and using food to reward it. Bright is very untrusting about most things so if she got used to it then they all can 😝 But it has a very low setting to start them out on.

Last multi day comp there was one night I couldn’t be bothered using it myself after doing the dogs. I was really sore the next day and I hadn’t been on the other days.

I use it mostly as a roller (my body weight on it) on myself but with the dogs I rub them down with it and sometimes concentrate on a tight spot with some side to side or a bit of rolling

It’s on sale at the moment so thought I’d share!

Contoured to the back, spine, and neck, this vibrating roller delivers the right angles of pressure to release soreness, tension, and improve movement.

13/05/2024

Video Analysis is now available! Introductory price of only $15 per minute of video you supply, as I am not sure exactly how much time it will take me to work through. Don't miss out on this low starting price!

I have been utilising this new coaching tool with a few students and have seen an immediate improvement in understanding and the students have been able to implement changes that improved their handling straight away.
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Video feedback will be slowed down and paused to really go into detail about handler position, body cues and timing. I will be pointing all the good parts and also any slight changes that will help the dogs get all the information they need.

Then I will give you a short list of what to work on, as well as share reference videos if needed to help with that. For a higher price, I could also do a detailed homework lesson plan as well.

Go check out the examples of what a video feedback would be like on my website below.

To organise this, just contact me either by email or FB messenger.

Video Analysis Agility Feedback Competition Runs Feedback