Right now, we are attending a 6(maybe 8, lol) week class on Sundays. If we can find time, we'll go to some runthrus, especially now before our trial. We do have some equipment in the yard, and we'll play with that for 10-20 minutes daily except after heavy agility days.
How often do you train your dogs?
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We're having 2-3 classes per week. Every training class lasts about 1 hour and we run different courses. I don't train at home at all, but on the walks I also try to reinforce the commands he's already learnt.
I think if you're reasonable and keep sessions short and fun, you can't overtrain him. W/ my dog I really need to watch myself, because he's hard-working dog, always up to anything, he doesn't stop for a second, looks always so happy and full of energy ... He's able to act like it's nothing and then if you stop, you can see he actually is very tired, because he lies down and fall asleep immidiately. So what I'm trying to say - every dog is different and some will show you that they've got enough, but for example w/ my dog, I'm there to stop him, because I think he's crazy enough to run until he'd be totally worn out-which would probably mean him being nearly dead
. If you know what I mean..... all in all - depends on your dog, but if you train daily it should be really only short sessions.
I think if you're reasonable and keep sessions short and fun, you can't overtrain him. W/ my dog I really need to watch myself, because he's hard-working dog, always up to anything, he doesn't stop for a second, looks always so happy and full of energy ... He's able to act like it's nothing and then if you stop, you can see he actually is very tired, because he lies down and fall asleep immidiately. So what I'm trying to say - every dog is different and some will show you that they've got enough, but for example w/ my dog, I'm there to stop him, because I think he's crazy enough to run until he'd be totally worn out-which would probably mean him being nearly dead
. If you know what I mean..... all in all - depends on your dog, but if you train daily it should be really only short sessions.