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Summary: Learn where signs are located for various stations of rally obedience in this free dog training video.
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Elise McMahon Elise McMahon has a Ph.D. in animal behavior, and has been working with both domestic and wild dogs since the early 1990s. She began studying domestic dogs in... read more
So we have talked about the signs now I'm going to show you how the signs are actually held up and then spread out through a course. We are just going to look at a couple of them right now then I will show you how easily I can make them if you want to make your own. So we got the first holder here and it doesn't have any number that is where the start sign goes the start sign indicates once you pass this point you are actually started the test and all the rules of the test follows. You would see there that we got numbers 1,2 and 3 all in the holders are are numbered and tells the participant what order they are going to come to the sign. So the first sign would be making a 360 with your dog to the right. After you have complete that you would go to the second one you can see here and you go walk in a slow pace and you would do that until you got to the third one. Right here and this is a sit down and a sit with your dog. So just to show you what in fact is, is pvc pipe it got about a 5-6 inch diameter, and it gots 2 cuts that are angle this is probably the trickiest part of making it 2 cut that are angle like this. You want to have it wide enough so that your sign would actually hit in there but you don't want it so wide or so deep that the sign sits below the top. And then you need to have the number so you can probably get your numbers at any hardware store and just put the numbers on like that. Alright so this is probably the easiest type of holder to make and it is fairly easy to make it yourself.