And on the other end of the spectrum you have Lobo the husky, who’s impressive for the complete opposite reason of being able to be trained, or more accurately convinced, to do a course at all.
We tried it with a very feisty pug. It worked twice and then she figured out that the bars are lightweight plastic and not fixed in place..... Pugs are not afraid of ramming stuff with their face. And to be fair, it's a lot faster if you don't jump.
Those dogs dial the fuck in and need to be all the time. A family member had one and he went absolutely bananas if he didn't have a command/work waiting for him to do.
I wanna see a world with Folarin Balogun making record time through the weave poles while a Malinois yaps at him and a whole arena of dogs bays in approval.
With the competitions I know the order of obstacles/the course is not always the same and they don't have training opportunities for the dogs before the competition. The human handlers need to direct the dog during the competition. Unless of course the dog can see, read and understand the instructions for the humans.
Apparently in the AKC competitions, the divisions are named for the height of the jumps. The jumps are in 4 inch increments. The rules are a bit unclear, but it seems bigger dogs must compete at higher jump levels, so a malinois or cattle dog might have to jump higher (and thus be slower). I'll bet whippets or Italian greyhounds do pretty well too. https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/sports/agility-competition-101/
You might be surprised at the breeds that do well in agility competitions. Obviously working dogs like border collies, kelpies, and various sheepdogs do well but so do many terriers and even poodles. Wippets and the like would probably excel if you could find one motivated enough.
There aren't really breed divisions around here, they get divided by height (since taller jumps aren't fair for shortstacks) and experience level, but most of the leaders are usually working dogs of some sort.
I am constantly amazed by the athleticism of my Boston terrier. They don't have anything that compares to the speed of this border collie but they do all right in agility competition.
ironymus
the look on his (her) face in the end was like, I've not even started
oobidoobscoobydoobybenubi
This song is perfect.
Cranbananarama
Dog's face at the end screams "Wait, we're done already?"
surroundedbytwits
I love everything about this
Ritawho
Olympic zoomies
dataengineer
well, boarder collies are kinda like the rocket scientist, brain surgeons of the dog world.
SuperfluousMeh
Collies are why competitive dog events like this typically have an ABC category, that stands for Anything But Collie 😂😂
KleptoKea
Holy shit that dog is a speeding ninja and seems to be loving every bit of it.
YpsilantiRomani
It's only complaint that it wasn't long enough or challenging enough but Mom is proud so it's happy
trasneoir
Incorrect. This dog lives for fucking around.
delpharseven
Source video where you can hear the thwap-thwap-thwap going through the bean poles: https://youtu.be/hxMsVbFr1Bc
HeadJamistan
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
VelvetWarhol
themuffulettaisalsoaverygoodsandwich
These border collies have frantic meth-head energy. The working border collies I've seen are like a different breed completely.
GorillaPowers
If you lived in pickerington you'd do nothing but train dogs, too. Well, that or fentanyl.
KiwiGameDev
And on the other end of the spectrum you have Lobo the husky, who’s impressive for the complete opposite reason of being able to be trained, or more accurately convinced, to do a course at all.
conMan76
I have seen this with a staffordshire bullterrier ... looked like a little meat missile flying around...
Nightcaste
Tbf that describes a lot of bully breeds in a lot of situations.
sacrosanctt
I played bass for Meat Missile
Doompug
We tried it with a very feisty pug. It worked twice and then she figured out that the bars are lightweight plastic and not fixed in place..... Pugs are not afraid of ramming stuff with their face. And to be fair, it's a lot faster if you don't jump.
SalmonTheWise
Pugs look like they're not afraid to ram stuff with their face. (And I thought you wrote "very feisty pig" at first)
Doompug
The difference is mostly the hooves vs paws tbh.
kimiDriver
Zero faults!
isthisjunkmail
Competitive zoomies champion.
FestusMA
Serious Daphne vibes
boxbackknitties
My wish is that that owner loves that dog as hard as that dog loves and wants to please their owner.
iusedtodream
Greatest bumper sticker I've ever seen: Lord help me be the person my dog thinks I am.
beatmacster
Border collies. The dog that loves to play. Even as a working farm dog everything is treated as play. Super super smart.
battery1979
Fur missile.
rouzuki
Those dogs dial the fuck in and need to be all the time. A family member had one and he went absolutely bananas if he didn't have a command/work waiting for him to do.
Good dogs.
silversean
Working dogs need shit to do, if you don’t give them jobs they will create jobs for themselves.
unluckyandbored
I've said it over and over. Don't adopt a working dog if you aren't prepared to give it a job.
phalanxausage
This is why I will never own a German shepherd. Amazing dogs but they would lose their damn minds living with me.
YpsilantiRomani
I don't know if you'll know this but border Collies are nuclear powered
ThisGuyPostingThings
I thought they were just perpetual energy machines.
oozabooza
How do you get to Ypsilanti and why?
YpsilantiRomani
It depends on where you are starting from. I was born here
keyblader1985
That dog intends to make a Supersonic man out of us all
jimjong1
That dog is a rocket ship passing by
torp
Don't stop him now !
PorcNoStar
He's having a good time.
CogYang
I'd love to see one where the human just stands still, dog needs no instruction, it knows exactly what to do
TheDildoOfConsequences
I wanna see a world with Folarin Balogun making record time through the weave poles while a Malinois yaps at him and a whole arena of dogs bays in approval.
PolitiCat
With the competitions I know the order of obstacles/the course is not always the same and they don't have training opportunities for the dogs before the competition. The human handlers need to direct the dog during the competition. Unless of course the dog can see, read and understand the instructions for the humans.
CogYang
ya, smart dog, i wanna see it. i bet a collie could do it
BlastyMcBlastblast
when the judges tried to give this dog his medal they couldn't find him. he was already outside in the car with the engine running!
DoodleBug3279
He's probably already at home, he knows the car would only slow him down
usernamesarenotcomments
Not only they couldn't find Pink, the medal was also gone
Camelspotting
YpsilantiRomani
Well yeah it has sheep it wants to go heard it doesn't know the sheep yet but it doesn't want to heard them
migratingotter
Heard= hearing something past tense. Herd= a group of animals (noun) or the act of moving a group of animals somewhere (verb). You mean the latter.
VolcanoHerder
... herd?
rhalm
Have you herd the good news?
CJAW
Herd what? Did someone say something?
madjo
Oof that's gotta herd
YpsilantiRomani
Voice to text let me down again
justareallylongemailaddress
Is this only a border collie competition? Otherwise this is kind of pointless for most other dogs.
wouldClimbForCash
Apparently in the AKC competitions, the divisions are named for the height of the jumps. The jumps are in 4 inch increments. The rules are a bit unclear, but it seems bigger dogs must compete at higher jump levels, so a malinois or cattle dog might have to jump higher (and thus be slower). I'll bet whippets or Italian greyhounds do pretty well too. https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/sports/agility-competition-101/
spinbutton3
Shelties are very good at agility competitions too.
pallara
Turbogoat
Apparently, there's a category for ABCs - Anything But Collies.
Treiskaideka
Ibthink it's usually weight class? But obviously some breeds will dominate.
There's probably other classes that might enable other breeds to compete.
wouldClimbForCash
Apparently height for AKC events: https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/sports/agility-competition-101/
Agouti
You might be surprised at the breeds that do well in agility competitions. Obviously working dogs like border collies, kelpies, and various sheepdogs do well but so do many terriers and even poodles. Wippets and the like would probably excel if you could find one motivated enough.
There aren't really breed divisions around here, they get divided by height (since taller jumps aren't fair for shortstacks) and experience level, but most of the leaders are usually working dogs of some sort.
phalanxausage
I am constantly amazed by the athleticism of my Boston terrier. They don't have anything that compares to the speed of this border collie but they do all right in agility competition.
MosquitoHawker
Aranon1183
TheDildoOfConsequences
Ozsheps are just gay border collies, change my mind.
rhalm
If they were all gay, their bloodline would have died off.
TheDildoOfConsequences
Not if they recruit border collie puppies by subliminal messaging in dog-food advertising and fluoride in the tap water. Checkmate, atheists!