Kangaroo K9 Conditioning

30/06/2025

Brief moment free of pet shirts and neck wraps this evening whilst on her biomag.

28/06/2025

July and August workshops now on Bookwhen
21st July
18th August

Old Amersham, Bucks, HP7

https://bookwhen.com/kangarook9
Suitable for all ages from 11 weeks to senior as long as generally fit and well.

01/06/2025

I have a few spaces left on 16th June:
3.30 pm - spaces
4.45 pm - full
Old Amersham, Bucks, HP7

Suitable for all ages as long as generally fit and well.

https://bookwhen.com/kangarook9

31/03/2025

Since Spryte’s injury issues I’ve learnt a lot about grids and jump skills. Thistle is now almost 9 months so I’m just starting his agility jumping education with grids.

In every day life he flies over things and normally takes off way too early, so it’s really important to me he learns a better way of jumping.

So far he’s done about 4 jumps of set point on 15cm in one session and today he did 5/6 reps and a few reps of a bounce grid for the very first time.

I’m also focusing on waiting - he struggles with this as he’s sooo incredibly easily distracted.

Next session I can tweak the set point distance a bit to get his jump arc more over the jump.

At home we are working on conditioning and strengthening, more on that to follow over the next few weeks.

28/03/2025

We been working on cavaletti for a few sessions now it’s nice enough to do things outside.
I love cavaletti for their flexibility and endless options. I think it’s probably time to start working these on a curve now as I find then really helpful as an exercise for extension/ flexion of all the joints in the fore and hindlimb alongside working on keeping arousal levels low. It’s easy for this to be very exciting and the dog to want to zoom through the poles so needs concentration and stamina to be consistent with stride length throughout the cavaletti.

20/03/2025

🦘Exercises don’t require complicated equipment.

🦘Here I’m using a selection of my platforms for a raised stand, an exercise I find very useful and often go back to, thanks canineconditioningcoach

🦘I’m careful when stacking platforms that they are stable so most of mine have grip on the bottom and top.

🦘I control exits from equipment so the dog doesn’t dive off in an uncontrolled way and risk slipping. The treat is dropped sideways to prevent the dog pushing off forwards/ backwards.

🦘Raised stand with head lifts is great for strengthening the Epaxials, the muscles that run on top of the spine. Lifting the head engages these muscles in the neck, it also shifts weight backwards to the hindquarters which subsequently engages epaxials further down into the lumbar spine. The hindquarters also work to resist the extra load that is added to them when the head is raised.

🦘It’s important that the spine remains smooth, the feet still and all limbs vertical. V’Ariel does this pretty well, with a little movement in the hind feet after a while so she’s allowed to take a break and reset.

🦘Using a hand target here helps keep her head straight along with a calm focus in position.

18/03/2025

New Dates for Workshops

Monday 14th April
Monday 19th May

HP7, Old Amersham, Bucks.

https://bookwhen.com/kangarook9

09/03/2025

My garden had some desperately needed attention during the winter, finally the weather has improved and it’s dry enough to get the cavaletti out again.
Even with the new grass it’s been too wet, slippery and cold to do things outside.
Looking forward to the spring now and a chance to get outside more, I’ve really missed doing things in the garden with the dogs.

03/03/2025

V’Ariel decided to start without me the other day, whilst I was adjusting the camera.
Love how patient she was, just standing and waiting.

15/02/2025

2 spaces remaining on 24th Feb and one on 24th March.

24th February and 24th March workshops now available to book here:

https://bookwhen.com/kangarook9

March 3.30 group now full. spaces in others available

Old Amersham HP7
Indoors. Max 4 dogs per class.

02/02/2025

24th February and 24th March workshops now available to book here:

https://bookwhen.com/kangarook9

March 3.30 group now full. spaces in others available

Old Amersham HP7
Indoors. Max 4 dogs per class.