Todays lesson

It was really hot and muggy today so the dogs got hot and tired quite quickly bless them.

Elliot:
We got him down to 2inches on his weaves as he started just barging the 3inches, we also did more contact work and he is very good on the table/seesaw plank combo and when just doing the down plank of the dog walk but when doing the whole dog walk he seems to forget to touch the target, a a few more good clicker training sessions and hopefully this will improve! We also did some jumping work, and realised that we need a little bit of work on our long straight jumps and then front cross as if I leave it too late to start running he ends up rasing me and then not reading my body language that he needs to turn. We got there in the end though bless him.

Jemma:
We did some work on flick flacks and spreads, two of our problems from the weekends and I think with both it is just practise, the flick flacks mainly on the right-side and the spreads simply because she has only really seen them in competition and never trained them. We then did some weaves and she did brilliantly although she did make us chuckle a lot as after practising them a few times I was then meant to do a course that pulled her off the weaves first time (into a tunnel) and then sent her on to them later on, just to try and build up some speed before them and three times in a row I turned and called to direct her into the tunnel and she just went straight past me, into the weaves and did all six to the end and then looked most confused as to why I was so far behind her and facing the other way!!! Bless! We then decided so as not to loose her new found love of the weaves we would alter the course so I didn't have to pull her off them. We are going to have a weave challenging course out for us on wed apparently and possibly might try her on 12!!