What is Wag & Tone?

Wag & Tone has been keeping me very busy lately and it is certainly a labour of love.

My friend Sue Holstead who runs funfordogs at Pitton near Salisbury told me she thought it would be great fun to have an exercise class for dogs and owners similar to Zumba. By the time I got home I'd thought of the name, written the book and made the DVD (well the book & DVD are only in imagination at the moment but ......)

We enlisted Ruthless Ruth our fitness coach to help with development and also persuaded Amanda Sutton Animal Physio to check out the exercises.

Hours of fun have been spent coming up with exercises that would work the dog and handler to keep them toned. Our own dogs love it. Torro is jumping better and looks more agile. Rhyme likes ad libbing and creating his own bit to get more limelight LOL.

We had our first trial class a couple of weeks ago and the hour flew by. Everything ran smoothly - it is so good that it felt we had been doing it for years. We had a range of dogs from pet dogs to hard drive not easily focussed young dogs and had complete attention from them throughout the whole session.

As it was in the Equestrian Centre we were unable to do any exercises that involve lying down. That may be a good idea initially as some of the dogs may find that a bit too tempting or exciting. Dee with Maloney has enough problem with excitement issues when she's stood up :)

So next step is to document the exercises in such a way that we can pass on to others and maybe that book......

Meanwhile we are going to run 4 more classes on Thursday 6, 13, 20, & 27 September at Cholderton Equestrian Centre from 8:30 to 9:30.

We will advertise locally first then maybe Facebook and agilitynet. If you are interested let me know.

This is Rhyme showing off sit ups - not included in current circuits but you can see the fun he is having. Trail video so don't worry about the talking.

This is Sue & Dexie with another trial exercise using Toning Bones :)

And lastly Ruth - showing the professional finish to come with the lovely Zan