IS FRISBEE safe for corgi to play?

[SparklingSparky]

Is frisbee safe for our corgis to play ?

I want my corgi to have more activites, he is doing agility now.

There is one trainer in my area who teaches frisbee says no worries about injury, he says there is a proper & safer way to enjoy frisbee , no high flying jumps involve.

Anyone got any advise ? or heard vet says no frisbee for corgi !

Thanks
Sparky

[Michael Romanos]

If there is no continuous high jumping involved then it is only to be encouraged. I had Corgis who just loved to catch a stick or a frisbee still airborne or in the air having bounced or rebounded off the grass - and sometimes this involved some athleticism and flexibility and low level jumping, apart from speed.

[glencorgi]

Yes, I've heard of no frisbee for corgis and also have read of some fairly serious back muscle injuries from playing frisbee. Now I have no idea of how high the frisbee was thrown or any details of the circumstances of how the injuries happened.

There are risks in everything. Corgis have been injured running agility even. With an instructor who will gear the frisbee play towards corgi "limitations", I see no harm in checking it out.

Debbie

[Louwants]

I have a frisbee for Duncan, and I toss it fairly low, and not being that good of a frisbee thrower, it doesn't go very high or very far. He loves it. His favorite is a little latex toy that we toss and he chases after. And if it bounces a little in the air, he loves it.

[pmavrich]

Molsen loves to play frisbee. He has been playing since he was only 6 months old (he is now 10yrs old). We throw for distance mostly and Molsen will catch it in the air. Some times he will jump up and catch it at hip level, but nothing like the border collies do. He enjoys it very much and gets excited when we put it in the car. We play 2 or 3 times a week in the spring/summer/ fall. He has trained our neighbors Lab how to persue and catch a frisbee... Now they run together.

Miller just likes to run along side Molsen ... He has no interest in fetching sports.

[Cheetah]

Shippo plays frisbee just fine. We use those soft canvas frisbees. He does jump and take it out of the air, but no higher than he would be jumping in agility. (12 inches)

[Michael Romanos]

Pem visitor, Alice just loves to fetch a stick or a tennis ball and return to the thrower. But Taylor's game is to fetch and hide so the thrower can seek. Alice has done very very well - it is all natural because her owners have never played fetch with her. Alice will chase madly at a stick or ball that leaves my hand but has not mastered the skill of catching the object directly. She goes straight past or in a slightly wrong direction and has to side track or back track. But boy, for a slighly rolly polly Corgi, she sure can scamper.