Daisy Peel

when they're winning and then they get to be five six years old and now they're adding strides because they're not as powerful they're not as confident maybe they crashed a couple of times and then they have this problem and you know meanwhile they might have a hundred puppies out there that are going to have this problem or some of them will not all of them but some yeah yeah yeah it's for sure genetic for sure

And I think for something like IGP where the jumping is really predictable and it's just the one jump, I think that those solutions can work really well because you just teach the dog, look, you just close your eyes and jump when I say.

But in agility, it's just too variable.

And also the lighting makes a difference.

If you're outdoors and you're on grass, they seem to do better.

If you're indoors on artificial turf and the lighting is very even and the surface is very even and there's no ground bar, it's very problematic.

It's pretty interesting.

And the other interesting thing is that a one-eyed dog does not seem to have this problem.

i've seen a few one-eyed dogs that don't have this problem so it seems to be it's not that they don't have depth perception because of course a one-eyed dog has no depth perception they seem to do okay there's something faulty with these dogs where they're reporting to their brain is just leading them astray and yeah it's crazy how

Well, but the, the, the object that they're coming at for the bite is lumpy, right?

It's a person.

So it's got some depth to it and the jumps are flat.

So they, they, those dogs in agility that have that problem, they have that problem with the jumps, but they don't have that problem with the weaves, the vertical poles.

They have that problem on the contacts.

They usually take off early and hit the contact on approach really low.

And they also sometimes, if the handler asks them to jump into their arms, those dogs will often jump low.

So you might see that I imagine in the protection sport with a dog that you want it to aim higher and can't get it to aim higher and it's consistently taking off early and hitting low.

when you maybe you want an arm and it's just misjudging type of thing but right but people are lumpy and so they're easier to assess and in agility if a person stands next to the jump the dog can judge it much more effectively interesting yeah yeah how long how would you I mean that's almost

This is going to be an unpopular opinion with the agility people, but I would not do agility with that dog.

I think, I think that's pretty unfair.