A good week of agility class

This week we were back to class after having last week off due to the July 4th holiday. Spot and Shelby were both excited to be back at Gemini.

Spot had class on Thursday. We worked on contacts, the teeter, the chute and tunnels. I added a jump before and after the tunnel to work on a short sequence with a landing side front cross. Spot did well. Then Carolyn had us work on a pinwheel sequence. Spot was awesome as usual. He didn't need too much help figuring out the path to take. At one point he started doing it on his own, I didn't even really cue him. He just loves to work so much.

Tonight Shelby had class, and we had decided to do the same couse we worked on last time, since it was quite challenging. We worked on the opening tonight. The opening was the chute, to jumps in a line, then a third jump to the A frame. For the third jump, we needed to do a flip. Shelby loves flips! So our run went very smoothly. After the A frame, we did two jumps to the table. We had a choice of doing a front cross after the second jump, or doing a rear cross and bringing the dog around the other side. I did the front cross the first time, since that's what came most naturally, but Denielle had us work on the rear cross, since the timing was a little trickier and she felt it's motivating for the dog to be able to jump extended, rathern than having to collect themselves. We did it 4-5 times before I got the timing down. Then we got to run the end section once, which had the 4 rear crosses, and that was no problem. Then we got to run the entire course, which was a treat. Shelby did wonderful-she's really liking agility itself now. She's staying much more engaged and wants to take obstacles.

So all in all, it was a good agility week.