April

Chester

Giovanni

Nevian

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Tessa

My way in agility - The dogs Results

My first dog was a rescue mixbreed - I was 8 years old. After Pajti, I got my first purebred dog. HCH. Hungarian Gladiator Carlo Freddie (1992-1997) was a Standard Bull Terrier male. He was very good in obedience and won many CACIB and BOB title on dogshows. He died of blood cancer… My next dog was again a Bull Terrier, but a smaller one: ICH. Anterrabae Memorial Don Giovanni, a beautiful Miniatur Bull Terrier male. Not a typical sport dog, but I began to run agility with him! He taught me to be always positive and he showed me every dog can have fun and success in agility!

My method of training

I like positive agility - that not only means to be positive with the dog, it means positive handling too.

I always show the next obstacle and I never hide something on the parcours.

I give the dog so many information as possible and I'm very consequent. I use my voice, my body, my hand. Verbal commands and body language are very important for me - and trusting the dog too! I try to be fast, but agility is not only running like crazy.

When I run a competition with Nevian, I always have the feeling she reads my mind. I know, she's the dog of my life and she's very intelligent - but "tought-reading" is the result of my consequent handling. The consequenter and clearer the handler is, the faster the dog is.

My basics are the same for every dog, but every dog and every handler needs an individual way of training.

My method helps every team solve the most complicated combinations. I would like to prove the sentence "My dog can't do it" doesn't exist. Either the handler can't do it yet or the dog wasn't taught how to do it - both of them can be corrected! Adult dogs and their handler too can develop very well.

I would like to show my methods at the seminars, because I have lot of fun and success with it and it's a positive and healthy method for the dogs. But I'm always very interactive with my students. Seminars can give good tipps and ideas, but you have to build your own system and work with it very consequent!

Video: Agility run in Basel (World Championship 2006)

I countinued the training with two other not common agiliy dog. My ex-partner had a very clever American Staffordshire Terrier female (Backwoods Your Baby Wanda) and a big Staffordshire-type mixbreed called Vigo. Both of them enjoyed agility very much. Giovanni and Vigo had a beautiful running contact on the dogwalk.

Since 2003 I train together with Ildikó Halász. She's a breeder of the beautiful and healthy Bergerac Belgien Shepherds. I got the possibility to run with her dogs. Flört, Faust and Fax were born in the same litter. Tessa is the grandchild of Fax, they live together. (Their owner is not able to run agility.)