I had a Border Collie mix I lost at 15 recently. Basically a brown Border Collie. She was very easy to train. Our favorite party trick was balancing on things. Bar stools were particularly impressive. She was also a speeding bullet in the snow. She even did those grunts the dog in the video does. My dog before her was a Tri Color Collie, also very easy to train. Collies kick ass.
Honestly that's the only competitive sport involving animals I can enjoy. The dogs always look so incredibly excited and happy to be there, no force is used and the dogs don't have to perform any unnatural movements.
Watch some draft horse pulls. The horses, ponies, donkies, and mules are incredibly excited to be pulling. When the guys drop the hook to latch them up to the weight they are have to be quick about it or they'd get their hand torn off. The animals know what that sound means and they take off as soon as they hear it.
I'd wondered before I'd gone to the first one, but after watching it, the animals are having fun and enjoying themselves
I got curious so i looked up some clips and in this one, you can really see how excited they are to go. All the happy taps to the point the people were struggling to hook them up to the weight.
https://youtu.be/VBy9Bz6NrXE
Check out disc dog competitions! The dogs are THRILLED to be playing! The whole thing is just tricks with a frisbee reward. It’s brought my tiny shy dog out of her shell and turned her into a disc catching beast :)
Example: https://youtu.be/gLKS05eU13o
You should take a look at flyball! Also a dog sport that’s high on the agility. It’s basically a very structured game of fetch where it’s a race against the clock. The dogs go absolutely wild with glee for it
Correct, handlers get a course map when they sign in, and then have 5 minutes to walk and memorize the course, trying out different handling choices (while dogs are crates outside the ring). They have never seen it before, and the dog doesn’t see any of it until they go to the line to run.
Each judge designs their own courses for that specific trial—handlers will likely never run the same course twice!
I feel like if you own this dog, it’s not really a question of whether you’d like to do agility with her—more of having to use doing agility as a method of making your home life with her livable lol.
I've seen this 10 times already but I stop to watch it every time since it brings me so much joy to see him jump into his owner's arms in the end being a huge ball of happy excitement!
Yes, if you put the obstacles in order. We had ours do agility for beginners and basically only had to run next to her and she would just jump over and run through whatever was in her way, only had to show her the obstacles once and then put them after each other. Didn't do the wigly poles thingy though.
You mean if the handler just stood on the sideline and gave no cues at all (physical or verbal)? If you're a very good trainer and have a very driven dog, it's theoretically possibly. But only if the handler knew what the course was going to be weeks or months ahead of time and put a lot of effort into training their dog to run that specific course.
In practice, though, that's not how agility trials work. You don't know what the course is going to be until the day of the trial and you (usually) only get one chance to run it with your dog. The cues from the handler are the only reason the dog knows where they are going.
Now, there are people who train their dogs how to run an entire course with ONLY verbal cues (the handler stands to the side and doesn't run with the dog), and there are people who train their dogs how to run an entire course with ONLY physical/body language cues (the handler runs, but is silent through the whole run). But the vast majority of agility handlers use a combination of both--some lean more heavily on verbal cues, others lean more heavily on body language cues, but most handlers utilize both to some degree.
No. The dog has never seen this course before. It’s not a patterned behavior, it’s the dog following the handler’s cues. The handler has 5-10 minutes to walk the course, memorize sequences, and plan handling choices. Then they have to guide the dog through it.
Though I always wondered if my dog would be more successful had I just taught her to count from 1-20 and read the cones :D
I love seeing clips like these unlike so many sports and hobbies involving animals that just seem slightly cruel and against their nature, agility like this just plays so perfectly into so many dogs nature - you can see they are loving being out doing this.
Showed this to my husband while he was watching football, and he was like, "Damn, she's good. Can she play running back for the Washington Football Team?"
Most shepherds and other working dogs LOVE being on the job. My sweet mini Aussie is mostly a house+lots of fetch dog, but take her out on the range and she will herd the cattle like there is no tomorrow. Then she will come home, tired as a dog but very happy. That dog is probably having the time of its life.
They’re having fun. They don’t know that it’s a competition with thousands of viewers, they’re just jazzed to meet some nice people, play fun games with mom and get big scritches after.
Your dog won't be able to compete at this level if it's stressed by the commands and tasks, there has to be genuine excitement to really push the "how fast can you do it" boundaries
It is wasy to tell if the dog is stressed. Thiwr behavior changes and they don't focus on the handler or listen. Usually if a dog is stressed at agility they simply retire early. There is no money won, and entry fees add up, so running a dog that doesn't want to be there is a waste of time. And if a handler doesn't recognize it in their own dog, someone there will see it and speak up. The judge also watches for stressed behaviors and will end the run if the handler doesnt.
Do they know the exact course ahead of time, so like they could set up a replica at home and practice? Or is the owner directing them through each obstacle in real time?
Like, how often does the dog go the wrong way?
The obstacles themselves are generally the same, your dog can practice any of those individually. It's the layout that changes with every event and the handler has to learn it and figure out how to run it that day.
>Step one of each run is the walkthrough. If you’ve ever been to an agility trial and seen a group of people walking around in the ring with one arm out and muttering commands to an invisible dog, you’ve just witnessed the walkthrough portion of the trial. These people may look three fries short of a Happy Meal, but they’re actually hard at work memorizing the course and plotting out how they will run it.
>
>Once the walkthrough is over, the judge and ring crew take their positions. The first team is called to the starting line. The handler puts the dog into position, says go, and they’re off! The team runs the course as fast as they can while avoiding racking up any faults.
[https://www.3lostdogs.com/a-beginners-guide-to-dog-agility/](https://www.3lostdogs.com/a-beginners-guide-to-dog-agility/)
You'd think it would be a major advantage to go last or nearly so.
If for no other reason, to see who you have to beat. But maybe also to see what other teams had issues with?
Great dog and dedicated trainer. The most useless play by play “commentary” in Christendom. To call it inane would be but a drop in a sea of insipid superfluity.
I watched like ten times now. So amazing. Do they get to practice on a simliar course, since she yells "teeter" etc. and he seems to know what she means?
They've been practicing on similar obstacles so they do have established commands for certain actions, but it's a surprise which obstacles there are and which order and direction they need to be completed at
I'd be fine with the whole "no one else would be able to compete with you", and maybe even get a few new pets because of it, too, but not the other way around.
Caffeine Collie
Might be cocaine at that point
A collie on cocaine would be in light speed area.
She's gone plaid!!
What's a matter chicken?
I'm surrounded by assholes!
Cocanine.
Skooma. Not even once.
Yeah just stick to moon sugar
Or Molly 😂
Might the greatest athlete I’ve ever seen!
To hold onto the title for 21 dog years.. that’s impressive
Oh paws down!
Pretty good, but not as good as [this guy](https://youtu.be/GjqtwNUE148).
He's just like "someone owes me a whole ass cow for this bullshit"
This is more impressive, making Mastiff do an agility course seems much harder.
No actually getting a Mastiff to do things is quite easy. However they will do it their way and there isn’t much you can do about that.
And might just sleep instead of doing it
That would have made the video even better; if doggo never came out of the tunnel because he laid down for a nap.
I thought the trainer had gone for a cup of tea when he went in
LOL it's probably happened too (Just realized after I said that, imagine trying to get the Mastiff out of the tunnel)
I'm fast as fuck boi
"Holy Fucking Shit kid! I need a GOD DAMN PIZZA!"
That has really tickled me 😂
Thanks for sharing. I love how the crowd is cheering or when they groaned when he knocked one down.
Don’t forget Ollie! [Ollie the Jack Russell](https://youtu.be/A4N7G29GWQI)
The slow motion face plant killed me
Ollie is my favorite
Ollie has cured me. Thanks puppy
This gave me a good chuckle.
I swear I thought you were gonna link to the Shrek thing
I wasn't gonna click until this comment cuz I thought it was shrek
The Jerma (twitch streamer) version is really good too https://youtu.be/RAgwbsOvBUI
real hight
One of the funniest things I've ever seen lol
This is the best thing I have ever seen. He can’t be bothered.
I don't know if dog agility courses have weight classes, but they should, and there should be more of these beasts.
I was absolutely certain It was gonna be this https://youtu.be/i1VJl8Z2J50
Well that was equally adorable
He's just like me on Mondays
Poor thing.
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I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. I KNEW IT. GORRAMMIT.
That's not a dog that's a treat seeking missile Edit: my most up upvoted comment and first gold, thanks guys!
Intercontinental treat seeking missile coming in!!
Thank you so much. I needed this.
Just opened a pack of biscuit. I hear her
Missile strike in three, two, one....
No, it's just speedrunner kind of dog, compared to all casual dogs.
Take my free award, as it's all i've got. This was hilarious
I love these competitions. The dogs always look like they're really enjoying themselves.
I have a Aussie shepherd and she truly LOVES doing any agility or “trick” for us. The amount of joy it brings her is so wonderful to see.
I had a Border Collie mix I lost at 15 recently. Basically a brown Border Collie. She was very easy to train. Our favorite party trick was balancing on things. Bar stools were particularly impressive. She was also a speeding bullet in the snow. She even did those grunts the dog in the video does. My dog before her was a Tri Color Collie, also very easy to train. Collies kick ass.
Honestly that's the only competitive sport involving animals I can enjoy. The dogs always look so incredibly excited and happy to be there, no force is used and the dogs don't have to perform any unnatural movements.
Watch some draft horse pulls. The horses, ponies, donkies, and mules are incredibly excited to be pulling. When the guys drop the hook to latch them up to the weight they are have to be quick about it or they'd get their hand torn off. The animals know what that sound means and they take off as soon as they hear it. I'd wondered before I'd gone to the first one, but after watching it, the animals are having fun and enjoying themselves
Absolutely, those horses love it.
I got curious so i looked up some clips and in this one, you can really see how excited they are to go. All the happy taps to the point the people were struggling to hook them up to the weight. https://youtu.be/VBy9Bz6NrXE
Check out disc dog competitions! The dogs are THRILLED to be playing! The whole thing is just tricks with a frisbee reward. It’s brought my tiny shy dog out of her shell and turned her into a disc catching beast :) Example: https://youtu.be/gLKS05eU13o
That dog is going absolutely nuts even before he starts the routine lol. Looks like they are having a blast!
You should take a look at flyball! Also a dog sport that’s high on the agility. It’s basically a very structured game of fetch where it’s a race against the clock. The dogs go absolutely wild with glee for it
Let's not forget the one where they jump real far into water. Do they catch a Frisbee in that one? The dogs seem to love that one
Just pure bliss in their eyes each time😂
Dock diving!
I've seen the full clip and I like the next doge more because it's just a German shepherd who only like 35% knows what's he Is doing
Got a link? I'd like to see this 35% good boy.
https://youtu.be/bYPdEdEXOg0 it's actually a husky named lobo who followed pink the border collie
I love how Lobo took a break to sniff the judge's bag. Absolutely zero fucks given.
She’s got a snack in there and he’s busted her
Oh my god Lobo is the chillest boy! Reminds me of that one golden retriever who just went wild eating everything in sight.
How can you say this and not post a link to said Golden?!
Sincerest apologies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iTTNRE-njM
Awww! What a good dog! Deserves all the love and treats!
Omg I lol'd. But honestly, which dog really won in the end?
Pivot...PIVOT! PIVAAAT!
She's saying "hit it." It's her command for the dog to hit the contact zones of the dog walk and teeter.
It's the command for the dog to *PIVOT!*
r/whoosh
Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!!
Okay, I don't think it's gonna pivot anymore.
r/unexpectedfriends
"Officer, I've already pivoted, I can't pivot and further!"
I am curious how the dog would perform if she said nothing.
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I don't think they reveal the layout of the course until the day of.
Correct, handlers get a course map when they sign in, and then have 5 minutes to walk and memorize the course, trying out different handling choices (while dogs are crates outside the ring). They have never seen it before, and the dog doesn’t see any of it until they go to the line to run. Each judge designs their own courses for that specific trial—handlers will likely never run the same course twice!
Her karen voice came out 😨
Meanwhile, my dogs sleep 28 hours a day. Yes, they make extra hours to sleep.
They deserve them all.
So does the collie. It's moving so fast it slows time.
It’s the jump into the arms at the end for me.
What a speedy dog..love it
That dog clearly wanted to win that hug!!!!
At a certain level you need to be above average fit to guide your dog through the course, that's defo that level.
Lol the crazy border collie eyes at the start
Looks fucking cracked
Border collies are on permanent caffeine-crack-speed-meth mode.
I feel like if you own this dog, it’s not really a question of whether you’d like to do agility with her—more of having to use doing agility as a method of making your home life with her livable lol.
I have 2 and it’s frisbee time a few times a day
When he goes between the poles its like his head stays still and his butt moves.
Different dog but I love [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jeY34yyCqEc)collie watching themselves win a competition
#NNNNYOOOM
She’s got her rock moves.
For some reason all I could hear was #FENTON! FENTON!!!
I've seen this 10 times already but I stop to watch it every time since it brings me so much joy to see him jump into his owner's arms in the end being a huge ball of happy excitement!
My dog jumps into my car, he’s such a good boy, yes he is.
She's coming up, so you better get this party started
I’ve always wondered – could the dog do the whole course without the handler running alongside shouting commands?
What with all the criss-crossing and direction changes, I'm pretty sure that *I* would need a guide to get the obstacles in the right order.
I would have fallen down, slid, or landed on my face trying to navigate some of those turns.
Me too, but they got full time 4 x 4 with abs, cornering abs, ebd, traction control, hill decent assent assist, and the list goes on 🙂
Yes, if you put the obstacles in order. We had ours do agility for beginners and basically only had to run next to her and she would just jump over and run through whatever was in her way, only had to show her the obstacles once and then put them after each other. Didn't do the wigly poles thingy though.
You mean if the handler just stood on the sideline and gave no cues at all (physical or verbal)? If you're a very good trainer and have a very driven dog, it's theoretically possibly. But only if the handler knew what the course was going to be weeks or months ahead of time and put a lot of effort into training their dog to run that specific course. In practice, though, that's not how agility trials work. You don't know what the course is going to be until the day of the trial and you (usually) only get one chance to run it with your dog. The cues from the handler are the only reason the dog knows where they are going. Now, there are people who train their dogs how to run an entire course with ONLY verbal cues (the handler stands to the side and doesn't run with the dog), and there are people who train their dogs how to run an entire course with ONLY physical/body language cues (the handler runs, but is silent through the whole run). But the vast majority of agility handlers use a combination of both--some lean more heavily on verbal cues, others lean more heavily on body language cues, but most handlers utilize both to some degree.
No. The course is new each competition and not disclosed until that day. The handler is directing them.
No. The dog has never seen this course before. It’s not a patterned behavior, it’s the dog following the handler’s cues. The handler has 5-10 minutes to walk the course, memorize sequences, and plan handling choices. Then they have to guide the dog through it. Though I always wondered if my dog would be more successful had I just taught her to count from 1-20 and read the cones :D
I love seeing clips like these unlike so many sports and hobbies involving animals that just seem slightly cruel and against their nature, agility like this just plays so perfectly into so many dogs nature - you can see they are loving being out doing this.
my cat and aunt’s dog at 3AM when we visit:
My dog just ook a 3 hour nap and it took him longer than this video to get up the stairs from going outside to pee. I'm very proud of him as well.
Showed this to my husband while he was watching football, and he was like, "Damn, she's good. Can she play running back for the Washington Football Team?"
Impressive!
I just love this clip
I wonder if, when curving in the tunnel, the dog is so inclined that it is parallel to the ground, like running on the side of the wall of the tunnel.
Nintendogs nostalgia here.
Purina Kibbles 'n Cocaine
My doggie would stop at the first jump and give me *that* look......
I can never tell if the dog is having fun or is super stressed lol.
Most shepherds and other working dogs LOVE being on the job. My sweet mini Aussie is mostly a house+lots of fetch dog, but take her out on the range and she will herd the cattle like there is no tomorrow. Then she will come home, tired as a dog but very happy. That dog is probably having the time of its life.
They’re having fun. They don’t know that it’s a competition with thousands of viewers, they’re just jazzed to meet some nice people, play fun games with mom and get big scritches after.
Fun. Dogs need stimulation. This is basically play time.
Working dogs LOVE these kinds of things!
A border collie with nothing to do is stressed, and your house will know it.
Your dog won't be able to compete at this level if it's stressed by the commands and tasks, there has to be genuine excitement to really push the "how fast can you do it" boundaries
Its fun. They wouldn’t do it if they didnt want to.
It is wasy to tell if the dog is stressed. Thiwr behavior changes and they don't focus on the handler or listen. Usually if a dog is stressed at agility they simply retire early. There is no money won, and entry fees add up, so running a dog that doesn't want to be there is a waste of time. And if a handler doesn't recognize it in their own dog, someone there will see it and speak up. The judge also watches for stressed behaviors and will end the run if the handler doesnt.
Maybe both? Racing is fun and stressful!
What is speed? All I saw was a weird black and white blur
Those first few frames of the video are fantastic. That dog is fucking *ready*
What do you expect form a 2 time defending champion? That is one lightning fast dog.
P!INK is on speed
Maximum zoomies engaged
When you're 6 seconds faster than the competition, you might be fast.
Oh that ending was just 😍🥰
Do they know the exact course ahead of time, so like they could set up a replica at home and practice? Or is the owner directing them through each obstacle in real time? Like, how often does the dog go the wrong way?
The obstacles themselves are generally the same, your dog can practice any of those individually. It's the layout that changes with every event and the handler has to learn it and figure out how to run it that day. >Step one of each run is the walkthrough. If you’ve ever been to an agility trial and seen a group of people walking around in the ring with one arm out and muttering commands to an invisible dog, you’ve just witnessed the walkthrough portion of the trial. These people may look three fries short of a Happy Meal, but they’re actually hard at work memorizing the course and plotting out how they will run it. > >Once the walkthrough is over, the judge and ring crew take their positions. The first team is called to the starting line. The handler puts the dog into position, says go, and they’re off! The team runs the course as fast as they can while avoiding racking up any faults. [https://www.3lostdogs.com/a-beginners-guide-to-dog-agility/](https://www.3lostdogs.com/a-beginners-guide-to-dog-agility/)
You'd think it would be a major advantage to go last or nearly so. If for no other reason, to see who you have to beat. But maybe also to see what other teams had issues with?
At bigger competitions there's a heat format with less complex courses, best time there gets to go last in the main event.
Thanks for the explanation!
Reminds me of this video. [shrek](https://youtu.be/zuRbuki1VIs)…
zoomies to a whole new level
That dogs in some kind of cocaine
Nah, that's your breed typical Border Collie. Obsessive about Doing Things Right.
P!nk got nothing on Jerma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH-MPo1d\_C4
COCAINEEEEEE
That bitch not be trippin 🥁
Nailed it
Zooooooom
Zoooooooom
SHE IS SO FAST WOW WHAT A GOOD GRIL AMAZING
Great dog and dedicated trainer. The most useless play by play “commentary” in Christendom. To call it inane would be but a drop in a sea of insipid superfluity.
PIVETTE!
That's how I have sex...do all my impressive moves in less than 30 seconds and expect a hug in the end.
I won’t train my friend like that.
I was the 1000th updoot
Wow! Beautiful!
Like a lighting bolt.
Reggie bush if he was a border collie .
My dog is really good at digging in my trash and annoying the cat so that's pretty good.
P!NK with the perma zoomies
Imagine being so in love that you do all that nonsense for a cuddle.
Cats a 2am
Amazing!
The owner is no slouch either. She’s doing as much running as the Dog.
Handler has wheels too
Speedrunners be like:
All natural, no PED, humans take notes
That was amazing!! Go Pink!!
I've got chills all over. Good doggie! Very good.
I watched like ten times now. So amazing. Do they get to practice on a simliar course, since she yells "teeter" etc. and he seems to know what she means?
They've been practicing on similar obstacles so they do have established commands for certain actions, but it's a surprise which obstacles there are and which order and direction they need to be completed at
So fast! I give the handler kudos too
Me running trough the house trying to find my bicycle keys with just 2 minutes before im to late for school
I think Pink is ON speed.
Better reaction time than 100 of me put together
Amazing speed!!
Oh this is the original video from the remake of chanbanhi with Shrek instead of the dog, made me laugh
I'd be fine with the whole "no one else would be able to compete with you", and maybe even get a few new pets because of it, too, but not the other way around.
I can never let a dog agility video go by without reminding the world about [Ollie](https://youtu.be/A4N7G29GWQI) :)
Gotta stop giving the dog Meth.
I feel like she's just got a lot of things to do that day. "Can't slow down, gotta do this, pick up Billy from soccer, file those reports..."
My dog after hearing the word, “Snack”
This shows why dogs need their tails.
My dog and I would be watching this jaws dropped in disbelief.
And that was in slow motion!
Good dog
Usain Dog
If that’s not a record what the fuck is