CONTACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jem:
o dear god, y did we retrain her contacts?!?!?I now have a dog that will do contacts at any opportunity even if it means ploughing me out the way!!! She is however doing beautiful 2o2o on the bottom of the a-frame! :) Her dog walks were a little off so we worked on them - as soon as you put treats in your hand she does them wonderfully, cheeky madam. The seesaw however, hmmm......the next obstacle was the a-frame so she decided she would jump sideways off the seesaw when it was half way down!!! She did this a couple of times so we trained it, but again food in hand=very nice stop contact!!! We had 12 weaves as the second obstacle and she did them every time bar one when I released her from the far end!:) Each week I feel we are becoming more and more of a team and I'm loving it :)

Elliot:
well he now has a piece of perspex as his target and I have taught him to do a long nose touch on it but i have only been trianing this for a week and he isn't 100% at home so I wasn't sure how he would do with it at the bottom of the contact but I needn't have worried, he knows what he is doing!!! bless him! We ran him over the whole a frame and dog walk a couple of times and he ran straight to the target and plonked his nose on it :) yay :) so now it is just more work on speed over the contacts and then gradually fading out the perspex! Weaves - well he was really confident on the left with SIX!! I managed to get all the way to doing "the walk" from pole 2 but on the right he was really wobbly (my homework for this week!!) and could only do it from recall! :( Lesley then thought we would try and push him so we tried him on 10 - he was good, sadly we didn't get one that was completely right but he tried all the way along them and more of the time just mistimed the third one but then did the rest - Lesley was really happy with this as it showed he didn't loose interest in doing them, he was just shooting in to them and not pacing himself enough to do so many!! We then did a little bit of jumping with him and tried him on a spread to try and get his legs flicking back rather than hugging his belly - and it worked!! By the end we had a couple of the jumps where he properly flicked back and the others he wasn't tucking them right up to his belly!! So something else for us to work on with him :)