Jayphotos

At agility today we had the pleasure of being photographed by Carol from jayphotos (jayphotos.co.uk). I am looking forward to seeing the outcome on Monday and hopefully buying some of my nice pretty babies!! So how did the training go...

Elliot:
well it was quite interesting - we thought he was knocking poles because I spoke to him but it turns out he is REALLY tuned in to my body language to the point that he stopped with four feet of the ground after having taken off to take a jump, just because I had stopped to pull him round the wing - so long as i kept moving he took the jump but as soon as i stopped he stopped too, regardless of how close he was to the jump!! I think some more value for the jump is needed to get him taking them even if i am stood still!! We also discussed the fact that he has no awareness of his back end - he takes off with his front end and then jsut tucks his back legs up and hopes for the best - I am going to tray and do some ladder work (need to buy a ladder!!), jump poles in a star and the elephant trick some more to see if he can improve his awareness of his back end. I am also going to look into taking him to Smart clinic in cardiff - I am going to look more into this tonight!!

Jemma:
Her dog walk and seesaw contacts were amazing the first time, she then had a bit of a wobble and then they were good again - she flew down the dog walk straight into 2o2o :D She still shuffled down the a-frame although she did stop 2o2o. We did some work on this and she was better by the end - we discussed that the problem with it is that she knows where she needs to stop but not where she needs to brake (bit like when you learn to drive and are unsure when you need to apply the brakes and by how much to stop in the right place). She did the course really nicely - she got her weave entrance (90 degrees from the jump) every time but was missing one or two out towards the end (there were 12) apparently this was because lesley had been mean and put the next jump at an angle on the right hand side of the exit so every time she was on that side of the weaves she saw it and wanted to take it - tinker!!! We also did a little bit of work pulling her off the tunnel which she did very nicely. So all in all it was a good lesson.

I forgot to do a write up after obedience on Monday - both dogs did well, elliot started send away, something I need to work on at home as all the other dogs have done it before! Jem got up in her sit stay again - little terror!!

Elliot is back at flyball tomorrow, I shall update how it went tomorrow :)