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Originally Posted by Dillydoodle
i agree with Bonnie, not every puppy loves agility...just like when you have kids (one day) they may or maynot like sports, you can force them to do the sports but that doesnt mean they will like doing it. THe same thing with a dog, you can ask a corgi to do agility and many will do it but not every dog is cut out for it or loves it and why force a dog to do something it doesnt want to do. When i started obedience i told myself that my corgi needs to get to a certain point in obedience in order for us to have a well trained dog so he would be wonderful to be around and socialized etc. However,we continued on to competition obedience because he showed a love of working with me like that, this is the ONLY reason we continued to do it.
You did say that you would get the dog in august and then your parents would be the ones watching the dog while you are in school, As a pet dog that is a fine situation however if you plan to be seriously into agility etc, the training starts early ( you do a lot of basic training before they can even begin to really do the agility work) and that takes more than a few months to do- most dogs dont really do all of the agility work until they are over a year as the joints and bones in a puppy are not strong enough to withstand jumps and such that are requirements for agility. If you are going to be in school full time are your parents the ones who will be working with your corgi daily on the obedience? If you are looking for a pet, that is one thing, if you are looking for an agility dog star, you might want to wait until you are at a point in your life when you will be living with the dog full time and have the time for all the training, it takes a lot of time and work for you and them to learn everything needed in agility...just my opinion
Emile
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Very good points Emilie, and I totally agree
