Black & White Sunday - HTM

On Friday evening, Earl and I attended our first ever Heelwork To Music (HTM) class! It was so much fun, and we learnt all sorts of different moves. 

You see, we started out just learning some of the fancy tricks and stunts before adding it to music! We still haven't done that yet, but the tricks are PAWsome! 

Unfortunately, we were too busy for the camera, so we had some taken of us doing our homework and practising at home. But today, just because its Sunday, I've converted the snapshots into b&w!

Above is our leg weave trick. You can perform this move in multiple different fashions - running backwards, call your dog to you and ask for a weave, run whilst weaving, walk whilst weaving, stand whilst weaving, and/or backwards weaving. I am sure there are many other ways in which we are just unaware of for the time being!

Below is our spin and turn trick. This is a very simple but effective twist of the dog. 

Next, is some simple walking up and down, aided by a treat in the handler's hand. We are looking for a dressage trot, where the head is high, legs widely spread when trotting, and the chest held proudly.

While your here, just look at Earl's hind leg muscle!!

Now, we have one of my favourites, and one of the easiest for us personally, being an agility pair. The jump over arm! 

Right. Now we have an ADORABLE move! Get ready for the roll together trick! Basically, the handler must lay opposite the dog, head to head. Now ask the dog for a roll (you can use treats) and you have to roll with him/her!!

We really hope you will try this fun canine activity with your own dog(s)! Its such a lot of frolicking fun, and you can even go on to compete in it too.

We are joining Golden Woofs: Sugar The Golden Retriever and Dachshund Nola for the Black And White Sunday Blog Hop.

P.S. Oh, and don't forget - today is a Sunday, which means we get a day off from the A-Z Blogging Challenge. But y'all come back tomorrow for 'L' day!!