Day 219: Private Agility Session · Dog Training Community

Day 219: Private Agility Session

I booked in with Debbie for a 1:1 seeing as work got in the way of my usual Friday session last week. Omg. I don't even know where to start. It was SO good. I took all 3 and all 3 were f**king brilliant 🤩🤩🤩Oh man, my whippet is BACK!! She was jumping and barking and even nipping at me for the ball which made sending her to obstacles at speed and with that motivation that I've been missing for so long SO much easier! I used some of Alex' "chase and hide" just before the walk out to get her boggly little eyes even more out on stalks. It worked a treat. I went with the intention of working on lateral distance with A and I, and just anything fun and playful with Skye cos she's a little cutie and goes bonkers for food.

We used a ground tap on the landing side of a jump on the walk out to encourage focus to take that fence, rather than do what they naturally want to do which is to suck back in towards you. It worked really well but they were stopping the other side and sniffing as they thought I'd put a treat down there! So it took a bit of tweaking but it's a possibility for improving push laterally to obstacles. I'm really wanting to move away from delivering them to everything!

It was a real shame we didn't film any of it. But it felt great to have to run like crazy to the other side of the tunnel because Aster was going so bloody fast through it, i couldn't keep up! And her wing wraps after a jump were phenomenal 😍 Islay also absolutely killed a jump-tunnel-jump-dog walk entry with lateral distance and at high speed. I was blown away by these three today, can't stop smiling.

Things I need to work on are:

different cue for clockwise spin. Sit in chair and feed from opposite hand

Sending to objects with lateral distance - sendaway helps with this
Behaviours in front but cue with more distance from dog
Running faster!!! 😂

Kashi had a low key ride out in walk this morning as I have a showjumping lesson tomorrow! My instructor from the cross country clinic on Saturday also sent me some video which i didn't realise she was taking! so I made a little reel ❤️https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPM0D9hjaeM/?igsh=aGVmZmswbHRxb3Bj

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