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Agility Class – Levi

Weaves – Levi and I are working on retraining weave polls. I realized at the last trial that he has gotten the idea that it’s okay to not do weave polls. I forced him through on the last day and he got the hang of it, which convinced me that we need to work on this seriously. So I’m retraining with the 2×2 method. He is having a good time so far. We are not too far yet, but hopefully we’ll be better by the June 11th trial. I might move him to preferred novice for it, see how it goes.

Contacts – He is such a goof. He still offers these in class then looks at me. :) We are also working on his contacts, so he’ll dash to the bottom of a board and stop with 2o2o. I think it’s helping him, but the weave polls are our main focus at this time. :)

Cynthia
May 19, 2005
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Agility Class – Chase!

Chase is doing so well in agility class!

Weaves – He is almost to straight weave polls. Only a little bit of openness to get him that entry. Sometimes he’ll skip the first entry, and sometimes the second, but we are working on it. And he thinks it’s such a completely fun game. He gets to play with a toy, and tug, and run full speed. How can life be more fun than that? I half-moon him into the first entry. I do think, though, that I’ve been wrapping him around more often than getting him a straight entry. So we need to work on that.

Contacts – he’s doing quite well with this, too. He’s starting to touch the clear plate at the bottom of the contact on a flat board. Will be adding the cue and a dash to the end of the board this week.

Table – he’s starting to pick up that he downs automatically on the table, which will be awesome. :) Never trained that before either. But the 2nd dog is always better right?

Cynthia
May 19, 2005
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