I started hydrotherapy with both dogs a few weeks ago to help improve their fitness. Well neither of them are particularly impressed - the first session Jemma realised in the supportive harness she didnt actually have to swim to stay afloat so next time she went in the h-harness and now has to swim, although she often tries to chew through the lead that is attaching her!! Well this week she actually managed two minutes in the pool swimming up and down after her ball before she tried to escape and had to be clipped in again, cheeky monkey!! Elliot just doesn't really like it, and starts off splashing a lot but soon settles down and swims quite nicely!! So thats for the good news, now for the not so good part, agility today.
Jemma:
Well in the hour she only managed to do about 3 different rounds and that was it!! It was quite warm so she kept disappearing but also she was really into just wondering off and sniffing and rolling. She then wasn't particularly switched on and so kept going wrong. We also discovered that we need to do more work on her weaves when they are an almost straight entrance but in a long line of jumps as she doesn't check herself very well and ends up missing the two middle weaves!! She did do some very nice contact work though - got to find a positive bless her. Although as Elliot had a rubbish day too maybe it was something I wasn't doing right subconsciously, just hope im not getting ill!!!
Elliot:
I really don't know what has happened to his weaves, we went back out to two inches and he did them brilliantly, all 6 straight off, then tried him back down to 1inch and it all went wrong again!! When he gets it wrong he then looses interest completely. The plan is to back to where it gets it right and get him really confident and then just gradually move them in quarter of an inch at a time!! He did ok on his jumping too but ran under a few and his contacts again were ok. He did do the tyre in a course though. :) So he wasn't bad but nothing was really great.
Hopefully we will have a better day tomorrow!!
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