Dog Agility Courses

Super fun dog agility courses that involve focus, coordination, connection and obstacles!

Agility is a canine sport based on accuracy, speed, superb connection with the handler and the ability to tackle various obstacle in the process.

At our centre, we offer a fun filled course where you learn the fundamental ground work needed for agility so that you become more of a team player with obstacles along the way.

We only run one agility course a year, taking twelve dogs all up, split into two groups. The course is run in the cooler months to avoid the heat.

The beginning of the course focuses on floor work and your dog learns to remain focused on you when off leash, hold position until they hear their start cue, listen to what comes next, learn to drive towards and over obstacles and learn to drive forward for the final run. They will learn how to cross your path while in motion, changing directions whilst approaching their next obstacle as efficiently as possible.

The dogs will learn how to interact with each apparatus, they will learn how to go over the bar jumps, the broad jump, through the tunnel both straight and curved, through the hoop jump and up and down the elevated dog walk. Each obstacle is taught separately so that the confidence grows and then slowly they all come together. These obstacles are the basics required to get involved in the agility world.

The second half of the course will focus on obstacle circuits where each dog has multiple opportunities to complete full rounds on their own with just their handler in the pen. This is when we start putting all the skills together and all the floor skills learned start to make more sense.

The whole course is based on fun and connection with your dog however we do teach you the skills that enable you to take this further if you want to pursue a career in agility competitions. Once the course is completed, if your dog is naturally talented and you want to do more, please chat to us as we can give you options on where to go and who to work with.

So if your dog loves climbing on things, has energy to burn or you want to do something different that can enhance your relationship and your dog training skills, think about agility and email us to be placed on the waitlist.

Our Agility Foundation course runs over eight weeks allowing you to have time to learn the techniques, play with the obstacles and put it all together in short sequences. Each session runs for 1 hour and each dog will have plenty of opportunity to work the floor multiple times as the course progresses.

In Agility Foundation, the obstacles your dogs will encounter are the broad jump, the bar jumps, the hoop jump, the tunnel (straight and with a bend) and the elevated ramp.

You can enrol your dog into Agility Foundation from as young as 6 months of age. The exercises and obstacles in this course will be low impact so they are perfect for growing bodies.

Please note your dog can enrol in this course if it is reasonably sociable around other dogs and people. We will take dog reactive dogs as they can work separately but we cannot take dogs that are human reactive. They don’t have to be perfect at their obedience to do agility, they just have to be motivated.

Please also note your dog does need to be fit and cannot enrol if overweight as it runs the risk of injury.

• Agility Foundation runs on Monday night at 7pm and 8pm
• We prefer that all dogs starting have completed their Canine Classes Beginners and/or Level 1 with Point Cook Dog Training or be in Level 2 in an obedience club.
• If the dog has not been in our classes before, we will need to assess whether the dog can join the group as most training is done off leash with other dogs present.
• All dogs must be fully vaccinated before they can enrol into this course.

Dogs will receive a certificate for completing their course at the end.

I look forward to meeting you.