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You know, and not getting specific cues like, okay, well, get up on your toes, move your feet around, crouch down into an athletic position, don't wiggle the toy, move the toy.

Like those sorts of things typically don't happen and you typically just hear, well, you just need to be more interesting.

You just need to be more interesting than dirt.

Which doesn't really do much for the trainer's self-confidence because all the years you're a dumb shit and you're boring.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I mean, it's kind of also an interesting landscape because if you decide that you're really obsessed with the sport and you want to make it your

livelihood there's really only a couple of ways that you can make a living in the sport you can make a living teaching or in agility you can make a living if you own a facility renting it out or making equipment so there are a lot of people what about sponsorship

In the States, there's not a ton of sponsorship.

But there ends up being a lot of people teaching because they gain some success with their own dogs who maybe really aren't teachers at heart.

I try and do a little training every day.

It's not always agility equipment.

So the dogs might not be doing jumping every day, but I'll be doing something every day.

So some days I'll go out and set up a course that I usually I'll find a course on Facebook, especially from like the

the judge that's going to be the judge for a tryout event or world championships you can find their courses from competitions and they've all got grids on them so you can use the grid system and set up the course exactly in your space so i usually do that i'll have a course set up so i can walk in and analyze it and kind of figure out what the skills are that are required

And so some of the days of the week I'll be trying to run the course with the dogs or run sections of the course.

Other days I go out into the arena and just do heel work.

I don't do any equipment because they get really object oriented really quick.

And then they don't really want to watch the handler.

They just want to do the objects because it's so fun.