any Gordon's doing agility?

[Helen S]

I just wondered if anyone else out there is doing agility with Gordon's? My 2 love the training classes and aren't bad, but we do have concentration problems during competitions! I get some very strange comments at shows such as "you're going to do agility with that....??" Do people think Gordon's are untrainable? My answer to this is that they are easy train but not always esy to handle!

[Helena Johansson]

Nice to hear that more gordons do agility!:-) I've trained agility with 2 of mine. My first was really good, but as you say, a little bit of concentration problems during competitions:-) but the biggest problem I think was the masters nerves.... I've just started training with my latest gordon and he has the ability:-) and I'm not so nervous any longer:-)
My sister entered alot of competitions with her bitch and managed to take some prices, so the gordons are not untrainable!!

[Nicole Wilson]

We've only just started doing it this year and haven't entered any competitions yet. So far I can say that Busby's been incredibly easy to train but there are also a lot of distractions around (there is a field full of pheasants just next to our training course!!) so we need to work on that too. Our trainer would really love us to go further because of the lack of Gordons in agility.

[Wendy Smith ~ Kewstoke]

Lesley Dennis has 3 girl Gordons that she has trained in agility and is having amazing results with them... She is a member of this site, you could contact her and share your passion. We all love to see them in action so more photos will be fantastic.

[Helen S]

Thank you all for your replies - this gives me some encouragement! Nicole I don't know how you manage with pheasants in the next field!!

With Lucy (photo attached - I think!) in competitions I need to be really positive and quite loud to keep her attention otherwise she sticks her nose in the air and just wanders off. She looks as if she is on an air scent, sometimes it is the burger van or whatever, but I think quite often it's a displacement tactic because she isn't 100% sure what I want. In training she's really good. Could also be handler's nerves of course...

[Nicole Wilson]

Brilliant photo of Lucy! Well, yes, the pheasants are quite distracting but we're working on it! After all, it's good practise for the field training too..... :-)

[Maggy Halliday]

There are more Gordons doing agility than you think, and they do well at it. I have also heard the same comments about Gordons doing agility, but they do love it.
I did agilty with my younster when he was a puppy, I then had an accident this time last year which put me out of action. I really must restart training with him now I am able to run again.

[Rachel]

Hi - I just started to compete with my 5 year old this year and our runs have all gone pretty ok with only 1 elimination. He won't be the speediest but I have been really chuffed with his attention when we compete - despite the kids doing there best to distract him from the sidelines ha ha!

We are currently working on getting our weaves faster and more accurate and at home he is doing ok - the proof of course will be at training class and then competition!

My daughter is in training with our 2 year old - his concentration is all over the place but now and again he has a glimmer of what its all about - but Jess is working really hard with him and he shows lots of promise.

We do it for fun and mostly people have been kind at shows - saying oh you don't see many Gordons and then say how well he did.

I also have an English Setter and whilst I am tempted at taking him training I know that he would not concentrate at a competition - far too many distractions and fun stuff going on for him!!!

The biggest thing with Max is if I hesitate he gets so cross and just barks at me with frustration LOL!