Wednesday, May 30, 2007

6 weave poles!

Wow, Shelby is up to doing 6 weave poles now. This is the number required in the Novice classes of competition. So I am really excited! Weave poles are the last piece of the puzzle. As soon as Shebly is doing those well, we can enter competitions.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Shelby loves a lead out

Boy does she ever! She loves to get ready......and then .....GO! She is so fast off the start when I do a lead out. And she is so good at going where I ask her to. At last night's class we had an interesting set up with a pretty acute angle between the first and second jumps. I was a little worried, but Shelby handled it like a champ. Then there was another jump and the dog walk. No problem! Then another jump, the tunnel, the A frame, weaves and the table. After the exit from the tunnel, we "layered a jump" on the way to the A frame. That means that you are not next to the dog, there is a jump in between you that you have to ignore on the way to the next obstacle. Shelby did the sequence well the first time, but Denielle wanted me to try it again with a little bit of a difference in the timing of my cues. Shelby started running in and out of the tunnel, turning around inside, totally goofing off. The tunnel is one of her favorites. Finally I was able to get her back on track and we finished without any problems.