November 5, 2024 • 13 mins
On this episode of the Dog Professor Pawdcast, Robb Lust from the Edgefield Animal Care Center, dug deep into sports and other athletic events that you can train and do with your dog.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining me in studio today the Dog Professor. It's another
Dog Professor podcast, Rob lust In from the Edgefield to
Animal Care Center and sir, we are recording this on
Election Day twenty twenty four, and it is the warmest
presidential election day in the history of Ohio. Crazy but yeah, see,
(00:22):
warmest it's ever been on a presidential election general election
day in Ohio, which is just mind blowing to me.
It's it's wonderful out there, a little breezy.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So no no weather excuses, get out, no weather excuses.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You need to vote, absolutely flipping loutely.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, no question, you need to do that.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So today we're talking about fun things to do with
your dog take them to the polls.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But I don't know if you're.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Not anti signe not fun yet.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I don't know if Fido would enjoy being being at
the poll now. But yeah, so there are a lot
of fun things you can do with your dog. I mean,
short of just hanging out at home doing your things.
It's get out and do things. You do that with
your dogs and it makes for good social media for
one thing, but a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Of fun for you. Yeah, yeah, I mean there's a
number of just taking your dog out to different places
is obviously, you know, a fun thing, and you know
everybody knows we go to brew reason we take our
dog with us, and a lot of people do that.
But there's actual organized sports and different types of trio
events and things like that that you can actually compete
(01:27):
with your dog in and they're fun for the dog,
they're fun for you. It gives you something to work on.
Obviously there's training involved in all of them. But today,
you know, I wanted to get out a little bit
of a list today about different things. If you're looking
for something more than just taking your dog to the
dog park and playing with them and things like that,
these are these are all good things you can do. Yeah.
(01:48):
First off, obviously top of the list is obedience trials.
American Kennel Club and different different clubs and organizations have
obedience trial competitions, which basically it is what it says
it is. Okay, you're judged on in a point system
on how well your dog does in different obedience tests
(02:09):
and tasks and things like that. So that's that's a
simple one to get in right off the bat. If
you've really worked on your dog's obedience and go from there.
That's kind of the lowest bar to get in. That
ability to have a good foundation and obedience and your
dog can lead to all these other things you can
get involved with. Another one is agility. You know a
(02:30):
lot of people it's fun to watch agility on ESPN.
You know, that's the obstacle course stuff where those dogs
are flying through the obstacle courses. It's fun for the dog,
it's fun for the owner. And they're usually timed on
things or they lose points if they don't stop on
the teeter totter, or they don't or they knock down
some poles or don't make the jump or whatever. But
that's a that's a fun thing and a lot of
(02:52):
dog clubs around. You can check into those dog clubs
to basically go through the process of teaching your dog
the obstacles and then if you decide to compete down
the road, you compete down the road. But it's just
it's fun for you and your dog. Rally obedience trials, now,
what rally obedience trials are is it's a combination of
(03:14):
agility and obedience trials put together. So your dog has
to be good at all those things to enjoy competing
in that shuts in a lot of people have seen
shuts in, they've seen the words shuts in, but they
don't don't know out of pronounce and don't know exactly
what goes on. Basically, shuts in trials were created kind
(03:36):
of for the protective breeds, okay, and in these trials
there's tracking involved, there's obedience involved, there is protection work involved,
protection work being the you know you see the guys
in the bite suits or the bite sleeves and canine
work that type of thing. But that's a that's a
big competition for the different protection breeds like German shepherds,
(03:59):
Belgian Rottweiler's, all of those breeds. If you had you're
into that breed and you'd like to get involved with that, it's, uh,
just look up your local shuts in clubs, shuts and
spells s c h U, t z h U n
D I believe pretty close, pretty close, you're in the ballpark. Yeah, yeah,
(04:20):
herding okay, if you have a member of the herding breed,
you know, border colligues, corgi's, anything like that. There's hurting
trials out there. Usually they start off with uh, things
as simple as ducks. They use Indian runner ducks. It's
really kind of funny to watch because these ducks are
funny to watch to begin with. But your dog is
(04:40):
timed on the ability to basically herd these ducks or
sheep into a pen and how good they are doing that,
and that's a that's a fun thing to do if
you're if you're in that situation, maybe you're you know,
you're have a farm. Maybe you just like to do
that type of thing with your hurting breed. That's a good,
good path that take field trials, which is basically hunting trials.
(05:05):
You know, if you have the hunting breeds, maybe you
have retrievers, maybe you have pointers. There's a number of
other hunting breeds out there that go into these field
trials with hunting retriever trials, basically they are what they
say they are. It recreates duck hunting situations and how
your dog responds in those situations on retrieves, how they
(05:29):
get in the water, where they get in the water,
how straight a line they can come back, how fast
they can find the duck in the weeds, and everything else.
You and your dog are graded on all of that
at these field trials. They also have pointing trials for
upland hunting, upland hunting, bean, pheasant hunting, things birds like
that that where the dogs are out, they're ranging, they're
(05:50):
finding the pheasant, they're pointing, how well they point, how
well they find the bird, how well they hold, how
well they bring the bird. But all this stuff is
involved in trials. Okay, so it's not just I'm going
to go out because I have a retriever and he
likes to bring his toy to me. You just jump in.
You're to a field retrieving trial. Please go watch them,
(06:11):
and then if that's something that interests you and I,
you know, it's a it's a good path to take.
Tracking and scent trials, Okay. Tracking and sent trials basically
are also what they say they are. You if you
have a dog that's been taught to track, whether it's
to track people or game or something of that sort,
(06:33):
you can take them to these trials and they're graded
on how well they find something, how well they file
the track in the In this category, they also have
what are called what I call tunnel trials or field
trial field trials for small breeds that are used to
hunting rodents rats, Okay, tunnel trials is what I call them.
(06:54):
They basically build this elaborate tunnel system for breeds such
as docs In's, Jack Russells, things that are are bred
over the years to basically hunt rodents underground or in
hay bales or things like that. And they set up
these optical courses and at the end they've got some
rats in a pen and and that's what your dog
(07:16):
is tracking. And how fast they get through the course
is how they get graded and scored. So that's kind
of a really interesting thing. That's trials that have basically
been created for what those breeds were created for. So
that's some that's some fun stuff to watch. Flyball flyball
maybe you've seen on ESPN, you know, or something like that.
(07:40):
Flyball is a relay, okay, And what it involves is
they got a big room. They got a big long
mat laid out. It might be I don't know, fifty
feet however, whatever the measurement is. And at each end
of the of the thing. At one end of the thing,
it's a basically a board that has a tennis ball
(08:04):
sticking halfway out the board, and they release the dog
at the other end, the dog runs down, grabs the
tennis ball, comes back, and they're timed how fast they
get over the line. Now they turn that into a relay,
so then once the dog comes back and crosses that line,
the next dog goes, and the next dog goes, and
the next dog goes. So fly ball is kind of interesting.
(08:26):
The biggest runners of those usually tend to be border collies.
Those dogs just in a lot of these events. Border
colleges can pretty much cover just about every skill needed
in the majority of these events. Lower coursing. Lower coursing
is something they're starting to put on ESPN. I've seen also,
And basically this is for the breeds of the group
(08:50):
of dogs that include greyhounds, whippets. You know that those
speed dogs, those dogs were actually bred to hunt things
by sight, Okay, rabbits, you know, any ground type of rodents,
anything like that. They were meant to hunt by sight
(09:11):
and speed, and they use that. So basically this is
a speed speed game. The handler and the dogs start
at one end, and basically what you see from the
start to the finish line is a wire and usually
attached to this wire is something fuzzy, something that looks
like a rabbit and basically they start pulling that lure
(09:34):
towards the finish line at a high rate of speed,
and when the dog sees that and they get the signal,
the handler releases the dog and boom, they're gone like
a shot. It's basically a sprint, is what it is,
and the dog is having the grandest old time trying
to catch this lure and they're being timed during that
time period. So it's kind of an interesting sport if
(09:56):
you have the little speed dogs or greyhounds or retired
racing greyhounds or anything like that. Dock diving we've seen
a lot of okay on ESPN and those and it's
basically it started off, as you know, just everybody who
has a dock and has a retriever or whatever that
likes to jump off the dock and get the and
(10:17):
get the uh bumper. But now we've seen all kinds
of breeds in these dock diving and actually some of
the top dock divers are not retrievers. There there tend
to be Belgian malinwas because those those dogs are super
athletic and super jacked to go get anything that that
their owners throw. But basically it is what it is.
(10:37):
You you start your dog, you toss a toss the
dummy off the uh end of the dock, and however
far your dog jumps to get it, then that's their score,
and the longest jump wins. Dog dancing there's a whole series.
I don't know if it's on Hulu or one of
these one of these shows, one of these streaming channels
where it's basically like Dance Mom for dogs, right, basically
(11:02):
is what it is. It's synchronized choreograph dancing with your dog,
and the dogs are dancing on their back feet and
doing all kinds of stuff. And that's a little extreme
for me. This list was good with me up to
this point. Then it's like, I don't think I'm going
to be doing any of that. But that's all the
kind of things that are out there, just beyond teaching
(11:23):
your dog to sit or teaching your dog to lie down.
You know, if your dog has a propensity or a
tendency or for one of the skills that's involved in
these type of events, you know, if you want to
get the most out of your dog, like I, you know,
my attitude is I always try to get the my
dog can do that, I'm going to see I'm going
to get the most out of them and see what
(11:44):
else they can do, because that's what drives a dog
to keep going forward.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And point said, like you said, if your dog can
do it, you need to know that your dog can
do that. You should probably talk to your veterinarian about
what you're looking to do. If it is one of
the sports that seems to be maybe a little extreme, well,
the easiest.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Way to find out is normally you get your obedience
out of the way, right, Okay, A whole world of
these type of things opens up once the foundation of
obedience is building your dog, okay, because every one of
these involves some sort of sense of obedience. Obviously, the
dock diving, the lure coursing where there's a lot of running,
jumping and all that stuff. Yeah, I mean your dog
(12:25):
has to be physically fit to do that. So research, research, research.
A lot of times. There may be some local clubs
near you that take in members all the time that
learn to teach you how to do these things and
to do that competition. So it's important to do that
type of research. But it all starts time every time.
(12:46):
Every one of these events with a good foundation and
obedience and that you get with your trainer.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Man, that's great stuff. And of course if you do
want to talk to the veterinarians, if you want to
learn a little bit about training and obedience all that stuff,
you do that at the Edgefield Animal Care Center. If
they're here in Central Ohio.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You'd love to talk to them. Yeah, the Edgefield Animal
Care Center. We're a full service pet care facility, family
run business, been in the central Ohilo area for over
fifty years. We have boarding, grooming, training, full service veterinary hospital,
Jason just about everything you need. Edgefield Animal Care Center.
Easiest way to find out everything about what we do.
(13:23):
See all the back back issues or whatever they call them,
episode of the podcast. Anything you need, you go right
to our website. It's Edgefieldanimalcare dot com.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Some great stuff and if you are just finding this
for the first time, make sure you hit follow wherever
you're getting in. Of course, if it is on the
iHeart app, you will get a notification every time we
post a new one. And to go back and look
through some of those older ones, there's some amazing stuff
in there, and almost all of them are very for
a lack of a better term. They're green. You can use
them at any time. Evergreen type episodes,
Joining me in studio today the Dog Professor. It's another
Dog Professor podcast, Rob lust In from the Edgefield to
Animal Care Center and sir, we are recording this on
Election Day twenty twenty four, and it is the warmest
presidential election day in the history of Ohio. Crazy but yeah, see,
(00:22):
warmest it's ever been on a presidential election general election
day in Ohio, which is just mind blowing to me.
It's it's wonderful out there, a little breezy.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So no no weather excuses, get out, no weather excuses.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You need to vote, absolutely flipping loutely.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, no question, you need to do that.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So today we're talking about fun things to do with
your dog take them to the polls.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But I don't know if you're.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Not anti signe not fun yet.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I don't know if Fido would enjoy being being at
the poll now. But yeah, so there are a lot
of fun things you can do with your dog. I mean,
short of just hanging out at home doing your things.
It's get out and do things. You do that with
your dogs and it makes for good social media for
one thing, but a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Of fun for you. Yeah, yeah, I mean there's a
number of just taking your dog out to different places
is obviously, you know, a fun thing, and you know
everybody knows we go to brew reason we take our
dog with us, and a lot of people do that.
But there's actual organized sports and different types of trio
events and things like that that you can actually compete
(01:27):
with your dog in and they're fun for the dog,
they're fun for you. It gives you something to work on.
Obviously there's training involved in all of them. But today,
you know, I wanted to get out a little bit
of a list today about different things. If you're looking
for something more than just taking your dog to the
dog park and playing with them and things like that,
these are these are all good things you can do. Yeah.
(01:48):
First off, obviously top of the list is obedience trials.
American Kennel Club and different different clubs and organizations have
obedience trial competitions, which basically it is what it says
it is. Okay, you're judged on in a point system
on how well your dog does in different obedience tests
(02:09):
and tasks and things like that. So that's that's a
simple one to get in right off the bat. If
you've really worked on your dog's obedience and go from there.
That's kind of the lowest bar to get in. That
ability to have a good foundation and obedience and your
dog can lead to all these other things you can
get involved with. Another one is agility. You know a
(02:30):
lot of people it's fun to watch agility on ESPN.
You know, that's the obstacle course stuff where those dogs
are flying through the obstacle courses. It's fun for the dog,
it's fun for the owner. And they're usually timed on
things or they lose points if they don't stop on
the teeter totter, or they don't or they knock down
some poles or don't make the jump or whatever. But
that's a that's a fun thing and a lot of
(02:52):
dog clubs around. You can check into those dog clubs
to basically go through the process of teaching your dog
the obstacles and then if you decide to compete down
the road, you compete down the road. But it's just
it's fun for you and your dog. Rally obedience trials, now,
what rally obedience trials are is it's a combination of
(03:14):
agility and obedience trials put together. So your dog has
to be good at all those things to enjoy competing
in that shuts in a lot of people have seen
shuts in, they've seen the words shuts in, but they
don't don't know out of pronounce and don't know exactly
what goes on. Basically, shuts in trials were created kind
(03:36):
of for the protective breeds, okay, and in these trials
there's tracking involved, there's obedience involved, there is protection work involved,
protection work being the you know you see the guys
in the bite suits or the bite sleeves and canine
work that type of thing. But that's a that's a
big competition for the different protection breeds like German shepherds,
(03:59):
Belgian Rottweiler's, all of those breeds. If you had you're
into that breed and you'd like to get involved with that, it's, uh,
just look up your local shuts in clubs, shuts and
spells s c h U, t z h U n
D I believe pretty close, pretty close, you're in the ballpark. Yeah, yeah,
(04:20):
herding okay, if you have a member of the herding breed,
you know, border colligues, corgi's, anything like that. There's hurting
trials out there. Usually they start off with uh, things
as simple as ducks. They use Indian runner ducks. It's
really kind of funny to watch because these ducks are
funny to watch to begin with. But your dog is
(04:40):
timed on the ability to basically herd these ducks or
sheep into a pen and how good they are doing that,
and that's a that's a fun thing to do if
you're if you're in that situation, maybe you're you know,
you're have a farm. Maybe you just like to do
that type of thing with your hurting breed. That's a good,
good path that take field trials, which is basically hunting trials.
(05:05):
You know, if you have the hunting breeds, maybe you
have retrievers, maybe you have pointers. There's a number of
other hunting breeds out there that go into these field
trials with hunting retriever trials, basically they are what they
say they are. It recreates duck hunting situations and how
your dog responds in those situations on retrieves, how they
(05:29):
get in the water, where they get in the water,
how straight a line they can come back, how fast
they can find the duck in the weeds, and everything else.
You and your dog are graded on all of that
at these field trials. They also have pointing trials for
upland hunting, upland hunting, bean, pheasant hunting, things birds like
that that where the dogs are out, they're ranging, they're
(05:50):
finding the pheasant, they're pointing, how well they point, how
well they find the bird, how well they hold, how
well they bring the bird. But all this stuff is
involved in trials. Okay, so it's not just I'm going
to go out because I have a retriever and he
likes to bring his toy to me. You just jump in.
You're to a field retrieving trial. Please go watch them,
(06:11):
and then if that's something that interests you and I,
you know, it's a it's a good path to take.
Tracking and scent trials, Okay. Tracking and sent trials basically
are also what they say they are. You if you
have a dog that's been taught to track, whether it's
to track people or game or something of that sort,
(06:33):
you can take them to these trials and they're graded
on how well they find something, how well they file
the track in the In this category, they also have
what are called what I call tunnel trials or field
trial field trials for small breeds that are used to
hunting rodents rats, Okay, tunnel trials is what I call them.
(06:54):
They basically build this elaborate tunnel system for breeds such
as docs In's, Jack Russells, things that are are bred
over the years to basically hunt rodents underground or in
hay bales or things like that. And they set up
these optical courses and at the end they've got some
rats in a pen and and that's what your dog
(07:16):
is tracking. And how fast they get through the course
is how they get graded and scored. So that's kind
of a really interesting thing. That's trials that have basically
been created for what those breeds were created for. So
that's some that's some fun stuff to watch. Flyball flyball
maybe you've seen on ESPN, you know, or something like that.
(07:40):
Flyball is a relay, okay, And what it involves is
they got a big room. They got a big long
mat laid out. It might be I don't know, fifty
feet however, whatever the measurement is. And at each end
of the of the thing. At one end of the thing,
it's a basically a board that has a tennis ball
(08:04):
sticking halfway out the board, and they release the dog
at the other end, the dog runs down, grabs the
tennis ball, comes back, and they're timed how fast they
get over the line. Now they turn that into a relay,
so then once the dog comes back and crosses that line,
the next dog goes, and the next dog goes, and
the next dog goes. So fly ball is kind of interesting.
(08:26):
The biggest runners of those usually tend to be border collies.
Those dogs just in a lot of these events. Border
colleges can pretty much cover just about every skill needed
in the majority of these events. Lower coursing. Lower coursing
is something they're starting to put on ESPN. I've seen also,
And basically this is for the breeds of the group
(08:50):
of dogs that include greyhounds, whippets. You know that those
speed dogs, those dogs were actually bred to hunt things
by sight, Okay, rabbits, you know, any ground type of rodents,
anything like that. They were meant to hunt by sight
(09:11):
and speed, and they use that. So basically this is
a speed speed game. The handler and the dogs start
at one end, and basically what you see from the
start to the finish line is a wire and usually
attached to this wire is something fuzzy, something that looks
like a rabbit and basically they start pulling that lure
(09:34):
towards the finish line at a high rate of speed,
and when the dog sees that and they get the signal,
the handler releases the dog and boom, they're gone like
a shot. It's basically a sprint, is what it is,
and the dog is having the grandest old time trying
to catch this lure and they're being timed during that
time period. So it's kind of an interesting sport if
(09:56):
you have the little speed dogs or greyhounds or retired
racing greyhounds or anything like that. Dock diving we've seen
a lot of okay on ESPN and those and it's
basically it started off, as you know, just everybody who
has a dock and has a retriever or whatever that
likes to jump off the dock and get the and
(10:17):
get the uh bumper. But now we've seen all kinds
of breeds in these dock diving and actually some of
the top dock divers are not retrievers. There there tend
to be Belgian malinwas because those those dogs are super
athletic and super jacked to go get anything that that
their owners throw. But basically it is what it is.
(10:37):
You you start your dog, you toss a toss the
dummy off the uh end of the dock, and however
far your dog jumps to get it, then that's their score,
and the longest jump wins. Dog dancing there's a whole series.
I don't know if it's on Hulu or one of
these one of these shows, one of these streaming channels
where it's basically like Dance Mom for dogs, right, basically
(11:02):
is what it is. It's synchronized choreograph dancing with your dog,
and the dogs are dancing on their back feet and
doing all kinds of stuff. And that's a little extreme
for me. This list was good with me up to
this point. Then it's like, I don't think I'm going
to be doing any of that. But that's all the
kind of things that are out there, just beyond teaching
(11:23):
your dog to sit or teaching your dog to lie down.
You know, if your dog has a propensity or a
tendency or for one of the skills that's involved in
these type of events, you know, if you want to
get the most out of your dog, like I, you know,
my attitude is I always try to get the my
dog can do that, I'm going to see I'm going
to get the most out of them and see what
(11:44):
else they can do, because that's what drives a dog
to keep going forward.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And point said, like you said, if your dog can
do it, you need to know that your dog can
do that. You should probably talk to your veterinarian about
what you're looking to do. If it is one of
the sports that seems to be maybe a little extreme, well,
the easiest.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Way to find out is normally you get your obedience
out of the way, right, Okay, A whole world of
these type of things opens up once the foundation of
obedience is building your dog, okay, because every one of
these involves some sort of sense of obedience. Obviously, the
dock diving, the lure coursing where there's a lot of running,
jumping and all that stuff. Yeah, I mean your dog
(12:25):
has to be physically fit to do that. So research, research, research.
A lot of times. There may be some local clubs
near you that take in members all the time that
learn to teach you how to do these things and
to do that competition. So it's important to do that
type of research. But it all starts time every time.
(12:46):
Every one of these events with a good foundation and
obedience and that you get with your trainer.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Man, that's great stuff. And of course if you do
want to talk to the veterinarians, if you want to
learn a little bit about training and obedience all that stuff,
you do that at the Edgefield Animal Care Center. If
they're here in Central Ohio.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You'd love to talk to them. Yeah, the Edgefield Animal
Care Center. We're a full service pet care facility, family
run business, been in the central Ohilo area for over
fifty years. We have boarding, grooming, training, full service veterinary hospital,
Jason just about everything you need. Edgefield Animal Care Center.
Easiest way to find out everything about what we do.
(13:23):
See all the back back issues or whatever they call them,
episode of the podcast. Anything you need, you go right
to our website. It's Edgefieldanimalcare dot com.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Some great stuff and if you are just finding this
for the first time, make sure you hit follow wherever
you're getting in. Of course, if it is on the
iHeart app, you will get a notification every time we
post a new one. And to go back and look
through some of those older ones, there's some amazing stuff
in there, and almost all of them are very for
a lack of a better term. They're green. You can use
them at any time. Evergreen type episodes,
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!