Dog Agility Weaves

Dog Agility Weaves
Here's a wide choice of weaves and weave spacers to choose from at competitive prices.  If you're just buying poles it will be very useful to buy or make a spacer so that you can set the weave in a straight line.   Sets of weave poles are also useful for making a short weave or a full sized weave or for making a channel weave.  Here are the live listings.
 

Teaching a dog to weave
Weaving is one of the most difficult things to teach and I find the channel weave the most successful way of showing a new dog what to do.  You can easily make a set of weave poles into a channel weave.  All you need to do is to put up two parallel lines of poles.  They should be spaced so that if you were to bring them together they would form a normal weave.  The idea is to encourage the dog to run between the lines of poles.  When the dog is completely at ease with this and enters the "channel" voluntarily you can start to bring the two lines of poles closer together.  Eventually the dog will learn to weave in and out of a straight line of poles.   Here's Sasha learning the channel weave .....and here's the final result of all that training.  Sasha's weave at training class.