Straight cavaletti - Advanced
Who is it for?
The advanced level is for dogs who have mastered the basic and intermediate levels of straight cavaletti. Ideally, the dog can achieve 2-3 sets of 5 reps of intermediate level exercises in one session.
Goals
The main goal in the advanced level is to further improve body awareness by asking the dog to adjust stride length and height across the cavaletti, while still maintaining the trotting gait with forward focus across the cavaletti.
Notice that as I increase the difficulty of the exercise (e.g., by changing heights), I reduce the number of poles for the exercise. Keep in mind that as we increase the difficulty of one aspect (e.g., height), we lower difficulty of other aspects (e.g., number of poles, reps/sets). Only until the dog is able to achieve the same amount of fluency of ONE new challenge do we increase the difficulty of another aspect.
*It is important to note that as we adjust the height of the poles, the height of the cavaletti poles SHOULD NOT BE HIGHER THAN YOUR DOG’S HOCK HEIGHT.