Its been a while

I have had my uni exams the past month so the dogs training has sadly taken a bit of a back seat but now they are over the training is back on!:)

We have been home just over a week now and have had a couple of agility lessons. Jemma had an amazing lesson doing weaves, we started on four and then did four space four and then decided to do six. She only got it wrong twice i thing in the whole training session doing them!! I have also done some handling work with her and she did well with that too, it was mainly me that needed to remember how to handle rather than her how to follow my body language!!

Elliot also did really well and remembered everything. The value work I did with the one jump has really helped him, he now takes jumps of his own free will, something he never did before, however this hasn't translated as much as I had hoped so I think now we need to do lots of work on building my distance from the jump sideways to help us. His contacts have sadly gone backwards I feel so we need to do some more work on this. His weaves are also greatly improving, he is down to 4 inches now and next time we are going to take him down to 3 inches and put a jump in front I think. Tonight I took him to a group lesson as he is VERY friendly towards people and dogs at the moment I having only ever trained him in private lessons I worry that when I get him to a competition I will loose him as he will find the atmosphere more exciting than working. It turned out that when doing jumps he wasn't bothered at all about the other dogs, however when doing contacts he couldn't concentrate at all and just kept watching what else was going on. I think in a competition our problem will come if I go wrong in a course or loose him because then he will loose his focus and notice the other dogs/people and i can see him doing a runner. At least we now have a better idea of how to go forward with his training.

Well I shall leave it at that for now and update after every lesson I have now I have more time!!