. Turn every training session, match or trial into a special moment for you and your dog.

· Respect always other handlers the way you want to be respected, avoiding disloyalty and aggression on your acts and words.

· Don't bereave your dog of its meals or basic needs aiming better results on training sessions or trials.

· Warm and strech your dog before every training session or trial in order to decrease contusion's risks.

· Don't employ techniques or methods that can hurt or cause pain to your dog just to get better results, keep above all its health and joy when practicing agility.

· Respect physical and psychological conditions and also natural limitations of your dog's breed.

· Don't own a dog just for a ego satisfaction, but to have a partner and friend, for practicing a sport where the main goal is fun and welfare.

· Don't abandon your dog when it stops practicing agility, keep it by your side.

· Accept the nature of your dog, don't punish it when its instincts come up and don't expect more than it is able to do.

· Accept defeat with dignity, admitting that if the twosome wasn't doing well, it wasn't the dog who was mistaken, but you who didn't have patience, skills and calm to train it and handle it correctly.

· Recognize the work of your dog, whichever the result, pleasing it a lot at the end of each exercise or trial because you never know whether it is there because it likes or if because I like and it likes me.

· Give safety to your dog during training sessions and trials, showing clearly what you want and the path to it.

· Help your dog in training sessions, always with positive reinforcements, don't use other methods under competitiveness allegation, to hide your inability in seek options to solve training and handling problems.

· Understand that titles are consequence and not a goal to be reached at any price.

· When letting out the reached goal, always quote your dog as in agility to win it is needed a twosome.

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