Full Racing Set Color
$605.00
The colored racing set meets all NAFA rules and regulations. Made of 100% Sintra® and even more durable than the standard racing set due to the thicker uprights.
Lattice Wing Jump
$119.00
Pole colors available are: red, blue, green, yellow, orange, violet or black. Wings are available in white only.
5' Panel Jump
$139.95
Panels are composite material and ready for stenciling or appliqué's.
Open Tunnel
$215.00
All Tunnel fabric has been treated to be UV Resistant, Anti-Fade & Anti-Microbial.
Flyball Box
$200.00
Unpainted $200. Painted $250.
PVC Tire Jump
$130.00
Select 2 colors for tape used to wrap the tire: red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, black or white.
Viaduct Jump
$295.00
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Dog Socialization: The Incredible Social Repertoire of A Twenty-First Century Pet.
We all want an even tempered, well adjusted, reliable family pet, and
most of us know that the well trod path to a healthy dog’s mental and
emotional development is socialization. It’s a fact that you simply cannot
expose a puppy to too many new things – sights, sounds, people, places, and
other animals. When a puppy lacks stimulation and exposure to new things, like
a child, her social development stops and sometimes regresses.
We are all aiming for a confident, outgoing dog, rather than a shy or
aggressive one and the way to accomplish this is with small steps…
incrementally more challenging social interactions every day. But do we ever
stop to think about what that means from the dog’s point of view?
Domesticated dogs today must learn to handle so much more that their
wild ancestors ever needed for survival. Wild dogs and wolves learned
socialization… how to live in harmony, to know their place in the pack. But no
one ever required them to make peace with other predators such as bears and
mountain lions. The only relationship they ever had with prey animals was when
one of them became dinner.
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Contrast that natural scenario with our modern expectations for our
resident canine best friends and we might get a glimpse of the learning curve
our pets face before we ever begin to officially train them in obedience or
agility or herding or anything else. Born and raised in a canine pack, we ask
our dogs to transfer their instinctual family allegiances to another species.
We require that they not only live peaceably in this new family, but that they
remain docile with other humans outside of their pack. We ask that they
maintain civil if not cordial relations with others of their own kind wherever
they are encountered… in the park, at the dog show, the agility trials, in the
neighbor’s backyard. We also ask that they tolerate and defer to the presence
of a competing predator - the cat, and ignore the gastronomic lure of myriad
available food sources masquerading as pets: hamsters, rabbits, gerbils, and
birds.
Dog Socialization continued...
A wild dog or wolf never gets too far from his home turf, except in
cases of human interference, but we ask that our dogs be as mobile as we. They
go to the groomer and the vet, the pet emporium and the boarding kennels. They
often accompany us to the grocery store and the dry cleaners where they must
wait patiently outside; we take them to family reunions and picnics, hotels,
motels, camping trips (possibly their favorite adventure) and pretty much
anywhere else our lives take us. We put them in our cars and visit relatives
three states away, we crate them up and transport them thousands of miles by
plane when we go on vacation, we pack them up with the rest of our belongings
and relocate them, often repeatedly through their lives.
Some dogs are more genetically predisposed to blending into human
society than others. Some are natural companions, like the golden retriever;
some maintain wary instincts like collies and sheepherders, bred to protect
livestock. We can say that genetics is only part of the story. The other part
is what happens when you make the puppy part of your family. We have coined
the term information overload to describe our own experience of being
overwhelmed by the world we have created. Imagine the overload on your dog.
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