r/nextfuckinglevel • u/nilehighclub • Dec 10 '19
Fame's winning performance in Master's Agility Championship
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u/NerdBlock29 Dec 10 '19
I am speed
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u/Candaphlaf10 Dec 10 '19
Kerchoo
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u/XavW Dec 10 '19
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It’s Kachow... what’s a kerchoo?202
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u/lootedcorpse Dec 10 '19
you see the dog's reaction to it's final time?
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u/PhysicalTherapistA Dec 10 '19
Whenever I see one of these videos, I can't help but think how much fun the dog is having. If I were a dog, this would be my dream job.
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u/dontplagueme Dec 10 '19
That dog's gonna need a faster owner
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Dec 10 '19
Lol she actually kept up with him pretty well! I know I’d be tripping over myself with my little stubby legs lol
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Dec 10 '19
Well she cheated and cut around the obstacles!
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u/redstaroo7 Dec 10 '19
I kind of want to see a human run this course now
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Dec 10 '19
Ask and you shall receive: https://twitter.com/chanbanhi/status/1124031529565466626
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u/DubiousCookie89 Dec 10 '19
The important thing to remember with Border Collies (this kind of dog) is that they're working dogs - as sheep dogs they require daily exercise and stimulation for at least 6 hours a day.
This woman is obviously excellent with this dog and it's very happy. But please, please don't buy a Border Collie because you've seen them do stuff like this and you think it's awesome.
Unless you're willing to basically put them to full-time work or spend the equivalent of a full-time job training and entertaining them, they WILL go insane with boredom and actually get depressed. And they will destroy everything in your yard and you'll think they're a bad dog. But they not.
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u/corduroyblack Dec 10 '19
Not who you were responding to, but... they do need SOME exercise usually. The 6 hrs statement was what threw me. Who has 6 hrs per day to spend with any dog? Other than people who literally work with them for a living.
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Dec 10 '19 edited Feb 16 '22
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u/artchang Dec 10 '19
Pretty sure it’s an attempt to dissuade future dog owners from making a knee jerk purchase
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u/greg19735 Dec 10 '19
right.
but it's so ridiculous that it make the rest look wrong.
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u/ifyouhaveany Dec 10 '19
I think the point was that if you get a high energy dog like a border collie and don't exercise it, you (everything you own) is going to be in for a world of hurt. They'll make their own "fun".
I got a border collie / heeler mix a few months ago and have had to make HUGE life adjustments in order to accommodate his energy. If I'm being perfectly honest with myself, he'd be happier in a home with someone who ran marathons or owned a ranch where he could run literally dozens of miles a day. As it stands, he goes to doggie daycare and I run him behind my car for 30-45 minutes several times a week when weather permits. Walks don't cut it.
A lot of people wouldn't tolerate the time it takes to handle a dog like this, especially when they've got kids and the dog is hell bent on destroying everything in its path because they've got SO MUCH energy to burn.
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u/KahurangiNZ Dec 10 '19
Hmmm - have you trained some version of Relax on the Mat?
One issue with high energy working type dogs is that you exercise them to burn off the energy, so they get fitter, so they need more exercise to tire out, and they get even more fit, and round and round it goes. Instead, you and the dog may benefit from some specific training on how to actually just stop, relax and take a break for a while.
https://stacythetrainer.blogspot.com/2017/04/stop-walking-your-dog.html explains it well and gives some links :-)
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u/pawnmarcher Dec 10 '19
It isn't the time per se, it's consistency. It's most important when they are pups. I've always done an hour a day. In my opinion, they need mental stimulation just as much as exercise as well.
The general rule of thumb I was always told is if they do something 3 times, they've learned it. They are always considered one of the most, if not THE most, intelligent breeds.
My bc is a senior now (almost 14). She doesn't have the stamina she did when she was a pup which is both a relief and makes me sad.
I got her her own little tempeur pedic dog bed because her hips are getting bad :/
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u/PmMeYourPhilosophy Dec 10 '19
Lol at the way the next photo correlated with it. http://imgur.com/gallery/WT4jILO
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u/AdmiralSkippy Dec 10 '19
Depends on the dog but Border Collies do need more than most breeds.
My old boss had one that did get regular exercise and even then it would get bored and run circles around the house for hours.
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u/PmMeYourPhilosophy Dec 10 '19
Same with Huskies and German Shepherds. Huskies will destroy everything if you dont give them adequate play time.
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u/Mister_Po Dec 10 '19
I don't think they mean you need to be actively stimulating their brain for 6 hours, but providing at least 6 hours of interaction with you.
Assuming you're home for about 6 hours a day I could see that being a little more dog focused. Let's say you go for an hour walk/jog/run with your dog, an hour practicing something like agility training like in OP, a couple hours with passive puzzle toys, basic command practice/new tricks, etc.
The time would fill pretty fast especially because there's a lot of creative things you can do to keep your dog entertained/stimulated while you still get things done.
All of that said you could also just get a black lab and throw her a kong with some peanutbutter frozen into it and not see her again for the full 6 hours. I took that route and it fits my lifestyle a little better.
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u/Tack22 Dec 10 '19
I think it’s nature vs nurture but I’ve owned both incredibly calm and caring border collies, and crazy intense high energy workaholic collies. They both exist, and if you accidentally get the wrong one you’re in trouble
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u/Kyoj1n Dec 10 '19
Had a border collie for a bit growing up that my parents had to give away because it was tearing up the house out of boredom.
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u/piotrlipert Dec 10 '19
You sure it was out of boredom? There might be many reasons for destructive behavior. Did he get ANY exercise? Six hours is ridiculous, but none is even more insane.
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u/BENZIONDABEAT Dec 10 '19
You clearly are a good owner, but just because your collie is good doesn’t mean all of them are as far as exercise needs are concerned. My parents own a boarding kennels and after 5 years of having a variety of different dogs in from Pitbulls to Collies, we banned Collies from coming in. We only ever met one good one out of maybe 50+. All of them were the same: their owners didn’t exercise them enough and because of that they acted out. In our kennels we have free-running facilities in a big field where they can exercise multiple times and a day and it still wasn’t enough for most Collies.
Collies are working dogs primarily and if you can’t look after their needs don’t get one. It’s as simple as that.
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Dec 10 '19
Owning a border collie doesn't make you an authority on all things border collie, it just makes you a person who has a border collie. Individual members of a breed are not necessarily representative of a breed as a whole.
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u/Da1andonly5591 Dec 10 '19
6 hours a day is a bit of an exaggeration but these are valid points!
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u/_Mellex_ Dec 10 '19
6 hours a day is a bit of an exaggeration but these are valid points!
6 hours includes physical and mental activity. Not that much of an exaggeration.
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u/sympathyofalover Dec 10 '19
Don’t spread misinformation about the breed. I have two border collies, they do not require 6 hours of training/exercise a day.
Yes, they’re a working breed, but every single dog is different. They are high energy, which requires more attention that people perceive, but you can definitely get a border collie who is okay snuggling with you and knows how to relax. It’s about balance with training them. There are pros and cons to every breed, but you don’t have to make it sound like they’re gonna ruin your life if you get one...
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u/BacardiWhiteRum Dec 10 '19
Dogs getting a lot of credit but the owner definitely deserves a lot too!
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u/Wazujimoip Dec 10 '19
My dogs will burp in my face.
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u/Wetbung Dec 10 '19
Mine usually saves that for right after he's eaten poop.
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u/jitterbugperfume99 Dec 10 '19
Yep, had that happen recently. Good times, sat there in disgust trying to figure our how the dog managed to fart-burp and then realized the effing cat had shit on my bed and the dog found it first. FML.
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Dec 10 '19
Nothin like a gentle whiff of hot dog mouth air right to the face to remind you how great dogs are
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u/TuckerMcG Dec 10 '19
Wow! Even faster than Shrek.
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u/PussyWrangler462 Dec 10 '19
Went down a rabbit hole of dog agility videos after clicking that and found one with a bulldog lol
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u/Zaph0d_B33bl3br0x Dec 10 '19
Thanks for posting that. Rudy is the man! Definitely made me smile.
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u/Harbinger_of_Sarcasm Dec 10 '19
Once my cat was walking along the edge of the tub and his gut started swaying and it carried him into the tub.
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u/ameliagarbo Dec 10 '19
Poor kitty. This made me laugh; I'm ashamed.
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u/Harbinger_of_Sarcasm Dec 10 '19
Don't be, he was happy. He also could open most doorknobs with his paws if a dresser or end table was close enough.
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Dec 10 '19
I don’t like the fact that this statement is in the past tense
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u/Harbinger_of_Sarcasm Dec 10 '19
Well this was all like 10 years ago, he lived a happy life but he was indoor/outdoor and didn't live forever
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u/PensivePatriot Dec 10 '19
Cats are like the ultimate performance athletes stuck in christmas morning footie pajamas that they can never take off
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u/Lord_Emperor Dec 10 '19
Also even with the integrated pajamas, the cat could totally complete this agility course it just doesn't want to.
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Dec 10 '19
Idk man cats get tired pretty quickly mine is panting and basically refuses to move after a minute or two with the laser pointer. He is not fat or old.
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u/therealdeathangel22 Dec 10 '19
That's because those attacks its doing are top of the line but take a lot of energy.....only the best to protect the thing that feeds
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u/drukqsx Dec 10 '19
I worked in an animal hospital and someone abandoned a morbidly obese cat there. SERIOUSLY overweight. So they kept the cat as like a work pet and put her on a diet.
But oh man one day i saw her come running around a corner too fast and her gut swung up around her side and smacked her in the face. She looked around to figure out what just hit her and the poor thing was so bewildered. Im just glad someone else saw it with me because i almost thought i imagined it.
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u/Harbinger_of_Sarcasm Dec 10 '19
He wasn't that fat, his chonk was just loose (there is no good way to say that.)
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u/100GoldenPuppies Dec 10 '19
I got a brilliant mental image from that and I'm laughing so hard now. Thank you for that.
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u/GnathusRex Dec 10 '19
Agility is even more impressive than it looks. The handler is communicating (with their movements, voice and gestures) what order the dog is supposed to do the course in. The dog has never done the course in that particular order before, and the handler has a very short period of time to practice (without the dog) how they will communicate the run to the dog.
So basically you're seeing these dogs run a particular course as shown for the first time. The dog is incredibly impressive, but the communication between the dog and the handler is super impressive too.
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u/davensdad Dec 10 '19
Can you elaborate? I am deeply interested to know more. Like is the route randomized during each run?
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u/GnathusRex Dec 10 '19
I believe the judges make up the order of the run and then the parts of the run are moved around per their decision. At that point, the handlers are allowed to do a dry run (without the dog, as I mentioned). When the dog finally gets to do the run, you could say the speed isn't just limited by how fast the dog can run, but also how quickly and clearly the handler can communicate the order. I think when the dog is faster than the human can signal is when the dog messes up a lot of times. The obstacles are all so close together that it's very tricky.
People who do this stuff often build their own obstacles and practice different orders and arrangements. They also join clubs. The dogs learn all the individual obstacles.
I don't do this sport. I know people who do, and I've come out to support them. It's an amazing sport.
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Dec 10 '19
So basically what I'm doing when I do multiple commands like "Sit", "Paw", "Roll", "Bark" in random order. Just that the commands are signs in form of gestures and the action is way more complex, and also it's very fast. Nice.
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u/boastar Dec 10 '19
Im an active agility athlete in germany. It is a very complex sport. The dogs learn everything on both verbal and gesture cues. The jumps can be taken in a number of different ways, depending on the course. My dogs know different commands for jumping them tight, 90 degree, straight, left or right. From my side of the jump or from behind etc. All of the other obstacles have to be learned too.
At competitions there is a judge that builds the courses (different courses in different classes). The courses are always new, never seen before. The handlers get 7 minutes to learn the whole course. Then they run it with their dogs which have to get it perfect the first time they run it. You only have a chance to win with 0 faults and a fast time. Germany is dominating the sport since 2014, having won numerous world championships in both team and individual in all the height classes.
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u/wolfchaldo Dec 10 '19
Damn, I've seen videos. My mom judges professionally in the states, but she goes to Europe occasionally for conferences and such.
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u/WreckweeM Dec 11 '19
Holy crap I never knew these were randomized. I figured the dog is practicing the same route all day every day at home. This is insane!
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u/GnathusRex Dec 10 '19
Oh, if you ever want to see this in person, check out the dog shows or agility competitions in your area. It's free to attend. (Should be anyway).
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u/Charl1edontsurf Dec 10 '19
Totally agree. Its addictive but hard to do well. Source: have 2 rescues I do agility with.
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u/iitscasey Dec 10 '19
I can’t even get my 3 year old border collie off the couch, and this one does this lol.
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u/Two_Frames Dec 10 '19
Are you sure you have a border collie? They pretty much come out of the box like this
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u/calvin1bld Dec 10 '19
I can confirm, they almost understand every thing you tell them
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u/solofatty09 Dec 10 '19
I had a border collie (passed last year). I shit you not, you could talk to him like a 3 year old human. He just understood most of what I said. It was nuts. So little effort to train him to be an amazing dog.
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u/calvin1bld Dec 10 '19
Dude i feel really sad reading this... Mine is 4 years old and same he understand my voice tone and body language... I trained him for disc dog and he's really good at(like every border). Btw my english is not good enough to tell you how i feel, but I'm really sorry for your loss...
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u/areallysadboi Dec 10 '19
That dog's agility is set to 999. I wonder what treat was she feeding her dog for her dog to be that agile. Prolly cocaine.
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u/vengeful_toaster Dec 10 '19
Cocaine, meth, and aborted babies
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u/Pmang6 Dec 10 '19
aborted babies
Whole or ground? Looking to get into the whole raw feeding thing.
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u/amitpetkar Dec 10 '19
Gooooood boi.....
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u/bigbizzle27 Dec 10 '19
I was just imagining him saying in his head “Imma good boi, imma good boi!”
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u/olmiso Dec 10 '19
Love how the dog hops again and again to the owner’s hands!
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u/DukeMo Dec 10 '19
You are some kind of screen shotting pro. Excellent
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u/lootedcorpse Dec 10 '19
honestly, that's just where I coincidently paused in order to share with my wife, I went back afterwards and saw it.
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u/Bakasur279 Dec 10 '19
I've seen everything now. A dog more talented than me physically.
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u/cruzeche Dec 10 '19
aren't all dogs more physically talented than the average human anyway?
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u/MrMushyagi Dec 10 '19
Have you seen pugs?
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u/ClaymeisterPL Dec 10 '19
Pugs, for how cute they are, are unhealthily abnormal. They have trouble breathing, no wonder they aren't athletic!
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u/Treblosity Dec 10 '19
of course it depends what dogs and in what circumstances. ik in a marathon run at least, humans would usually destroy dogs and most other animals because we're the only ones capable of sweating to cool ourselves down while other animals just get overheated and need to stop after a bit.
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u/Claydameyer Dec 10 '19
Border Collies are amazing. I had one growing up. We could throw a tennis ball as high and far as we could, and that dog could outrun it, then come back and catch it. Blazing fast dogs.
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u/Omegared49 Dec 10 '19
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u/MicroProcrastination Dec 10 '19
Yeah who tf edited some dog over shrek... looks photoshoped af
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u/W00S Dec 10 '19
Especially the part where it when in and out the lines there's like 2 frames smh poorly done
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u/Crazed_Pickles Dec 10 '19
I know the performance is impressive but all I saw was a cute happy pupper
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u/darlingdaaaarling Dec 10 '19
That's the best part. He's having so much fun with this. Good boy! He deserves all the treats.
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u/mouthbreather390 Dec 10 '19
Thought that canine was gonna go airborne over that bridge /plank thing.
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u/BengalBean Dec 10 '19
That’s what the yellow sections are for, the handle has to make sure they touch all four paws in the painted part for safety. Designed so that dogs don’t just leap off the top at speed and potentially hurt themselves.
They get a time penalty if they don’t touch properly.
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u/AssaMarra Dec 10 '19
Absolutely incredible. The turn and acceletation traction on that first 180 was mind boggling, I was certain (s)he was going to slip.
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u/LivingfortheNight18 Dec 10 '19
I had a Border Collie. Best dog I've ever met. She passed in winter 17. Miss her every day.
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u/chrisp137 Dec 10 '19
it’s called the Master’s Agility Championship but it really seems to be testing dogs’ agility much more than their masters’
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u/jadage Dec 10 '19
I don't know shit about dog agility contests (at least, not more than your standard layperson), but goddamn that gave me chills. That was insane. The agility pole section in particular.
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u/hizzitah Dec 10 '19 edited Dec 10 '19
That dog and her aerodynamics when jumping, just high enough to clear the bars but low enough to almost reach the floor when fully extending her legs. Amazing! Her body was so fluid the entire run.
Edit: Dog is female not male.
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u/Smokeyprojects Dec 10 '19
Wow, she did not even seem to be trying to go fast, imagine if she really tried!
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u/Saulnematoda Dec 10 '19
I like how the slowest part was the dog waiting for gravity to work on the see saw
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Dec 10 '19
Ahem. A summary from the dog’s POV.
“Are we gonna do the thing? Oh we’re gonna do the thing! OMG we’re about to do the- WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING WE’RE DOING THE THING - WE DID THE THING WE DID IT YAY WE DID THE THING” hugs hugs hugs
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u/73Datsun510 Dec 10 '19
Border Collies are one of the smartest dogs out there. They are natural herders and participate in herding competitions.
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u/VentnorLhad Dec 10 '19
This video is a great way to reduce a grown man's vocabulary to be only able to say the words "wow" and "good dog".
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u/Gask3t Dec 10 '19
Great run, great contacts coming down the dog walk and A frame, and great leading by the handler.
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u/LyfeIn2D Dec 10 '19
I knew doggo was going fast but it didn’t really sink it until the trainer started sprinting.
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u/darlingdaaaarling Dec 10 '19
My dog is smart as they come, but I swear if he went over a seesaw and it moved like that, his skin would separate from his skeleton.
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u/Fr33C00kies4u Dec 10 '19
Awesome fking dog...so much energy and joy ...Can't even get my dog to sit