A Little Agility Detective Work...

A week ago Lisa noticed Ben had symmetric patches of bare skin below each eye after doing limited weaving. The weaving in this video was aimed at determining whether abrasion occurred because of Ben's head position while weaving.

Was he rubbing his face on the poles?

Was the tape at eye/muzzle level causing the problem?

Here's the first attempt at ascertaining what is happening... Blast (no abrasion issues) runs the first four sets of weaves. Ben (showing abrasions) runs the last two sets. The last piece of information, that may be of limited value, is that both consistently runs the poles in about 2.9 seconds. Slow it down to look at footwork and what differences in footwork require the dogs to do with their heads. Pretty interesting.

I think that's all of the data I can squeeze out of this footage.

Dave Stone
2/28/2009

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• dogs
• agility
• border collie
• weave poles
• dog training

[23Nellie1]

NICE WEAVES!!!!!!!!! Poor Ben :(

[chihuahuaagility324]

poor dog:(