Wednesday, January 24, 2007

WooHoo-A 15 obstacle course

Last night's agility class was ca-razy! There are 9 dogs, so it is a little crowded. Shelby was in a mood, and at one point she grabbed another dog's toy and ran around getting everyone else revved up, including the great dane. Do you know how hard it is to separate a jack russel and a great dane? Especially when the great dane hip-checks you every time you try and grab your dog? Then the great dane went on a tear around again later. The instructor was hanging on by a thread-as were most of the students. It was not the most productive session. The class is supposed to be 60 minutes, but ended up being 90 minutes just because it was so crowded, and a lot of people needed help/corrections during their run.
But we did make some progress. Shelby was able to do the seesaw with a little bit of trepidation. We even were able to do the seesaw as part of the course at the end of the night. I had to help her out with some cheese for motivation. It was a good course, with the dog walk in a higher position than usual, plus it had a tunnel going underneath, which sometimes freaks the dogs out a bit. We also had a tricky transition from the A frame to a tunnel which we had a little trouble with, just because I wasn't sure of the cues, but everything else was good.

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