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What Jump Height Should My Dog Be Jumping?
Oh man, what a can of worms I'm opening! 😂 This comes from a patron question: Let’s talk about jump heights. My pup has 3 different jump heights in 3 different organizations. I have had some people say always practice at the highest. Others tell me to change...
Verbal Cues in Agility
This question is from one of my patrons: Hi Megan! You mention using proactive cues to tell our dogs where the course is going. Many I know are physical. Can you share what verbal cues you might use along with our well versed wrap cues? For example, a 180 turn. And do...
The Ribbons that are Never Given Out…
When you're scrolling through your social media, you see a lot of excited dog sport handlers showing off their weekend loot: clean runs, qualifying scores, winning runs, and new titles. There's usually a lot of engagement on the post with likes, loves, and champagne...
Tips for Tracking Your Training
Let's be perfectly honest, there are a lot of different skills one can be training at once time when it comes to dog sports, agility in particular. There are so many pieces to train and put together! I get asked a lot about how to keep track of ALL the things you're...
Are You Treating Your Students Like Dogs? Part 2
A couple of weeks ago, I published the first part of this blog. Check that out here. Let's continue down that list of tips for how to align ourselves with our human learners and have a bigger impact on their progress. 6. Stop Over-Facing Them "Train on courses way...
Are You Treating Your Students Like Dogs? Part 1
How much effort are you putting into forming training plans for your 4-legged clients? Are you putting that same effort into the plans for the 2-legged ones? What can you do to start changing how you teach? Keep reading for my take. 1. Manipulate the Environment This...
About
Megan Foster
FOUNDER, SYNERGY DOG SPORTS
I have been training in agility nearly my entire life. With seventeen years of experience, I have had the opportunities to work with hundreds of dogs within a large variety of breeds.
I began my agility journey with an American Eskimo and a Westie. In 1999, I began competing with my first Shetland Sheepdog, Buddy. Buddy’s lesson to me was about connection and bond. While running him, I knew that agility was what I was meant to do.
