I m p r o v e Yo u r Handling Skills at Home Backyard Dogs By Mary Ellen Barry For your backyard this month we have some exercises for basic handling as well as some weave entry work. In Figure 1, keep the dog on your right through #4. Do a rear cross at #5 and bring your dog around to his right to the weave poles as shown in Figure 1a. Repeat the previous exercise, but this time try turning your dog to his left at #5 and bringing him around to his left for the weave poles as shown in Figure 2. In Figure 3, keep your dog on your left through #5 and do a rear cross at #6 as shown in Figure 3a. 1 1A T 2 5 3 4 1 T 5 6 RC 6 7 4 7 2 3 7 T 3A 7 T T 5 6 FC 1 6 2 RC 6 4 7 5 4 3 5 8 Clean Run | April 07