Friday night agility with Shelby

Our class on Friday night was very interesting. The course was pretty hard, but do-able. There was an unusual opening, with 2 jumps, then a rear cross over 3, and another rear cross to the dog walk. From there, the tunnel, which was an obstacle discrimination because the table was there as well. From the tunnel, it was the teeter, then another obstacle discrimination between the tunnel and the A frame. There was a choice of handling the teeter and the tunnel on the right or the left, depending if you wanted to layer the A frame or not. That was if you handled the teeter on your left. If you handled it on your right, you would have to do a rear cross coming out of the tunnel. I chose to layer the A frame, just because I don't often get the opportunity and it's a good skill to have. So the first time we did it, I didn't talk to Shelby while she was in the tunnel, so she turned the wrong way coming out. But the next time it worked fine. After the tunnel was a jump, then a 3 jump serpentine with a flip over the last jump, which can be tricky, but Shelby is a great flipper! Then another jump to a 180 and the A frame. Then a pull to the tunnel under the A frame, to the weaves. I thought this would be tricky, but Shelby took the poles like a pro. Then finally, the tunnel and the table to finish. On top of this interesting course, there were 3 people and 3 new dogs who stayed to watch from the previous class. So I kind of let Shelby do a drive by during the warm up, just to take the edge off. Then while we were running, she did turn to go over and say hello, but I called her and she turned right back around, so it was good. A very fun class!