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My computer died... R.I.P.

Any how, we had a weekend full of agility! We started off will a focus class on Saturday that we worked on crosses both front and rear, with a couple of flase turns as well. We had a rough start where I "might" have been a little grumpy at first causing the lil man to shut down a bit. My goal is to stop saying negative phrases when Pickle does not do exactly what I am asking- keep trying to remind myself that it is probably something I am doing that is causing the behaivor.

Sunday was better as far as attention and positive behaivors. We worked mostly on object discrimination and crosses. He still is a contact sucker... hehehe, we'll have to work on that. We also did courses as well... I think he is coming along so nicely. I really do need to work the weaves with him more- right now I think that we have hit a learn plateu on them, maybe I need to find a different approach... we'll see, I'm afraid I'm gonna cause him to hate the weaves (I kinda stopped working them at home for the time being)

Monday night we had our handling class. I rushed home from work, threw Pickle in the care, and high tailed it to class. He was so hyper and unfocused... thereby we did not accomplish much in class. I will learn to wear him out a bit more...

Tuesday was truely a blast! We went to Chuting Stars and learned several of the games such a snooker, jackpot (gamblers), and colors! Pickle was so intune and so hyped up! I had so much fun... we were out there for 2 hours- I didn't notice how much running we had done till we got home- boy am I sore!!! Last night seemed to bring it all together, I coulsdn't help but walk away and think "so this is what its all about!" If you don't run agility- START!!!

Tired Pickle

Wow! What a day!!! Pickle and Felix went to the Operation Kindness "Hang Ten" day. The local water park opened parts of the park to the dogs for the last day of the season. Felix had a blast swimming around in the wave pool where as Pickle played mostly on the shore... every once in a while paddling out to see his momma. Pickle even went surfing for a while on momma's raft!

Needless to say after hours at the water park- Pickle slept through agility. All in all, it was a great day!

Baby Genius

Pickle was a star today! He started off today a little distracted because Bessie was in our class today- he hasn't seen her in months. After the inital sniff and greet, we got straight to work focusing primarily on weaves. We worked on several "entrances" to the weaves, in laymans terms, coming off of different obstacles and different angles to the weaves. The lil man did very well, we only had one pop out but that was the very first attempt (I'm going to blame handler error on that one). Dori did get some action shots of us today, but my computer is acting up a bit so I'll try uploading them later.

*Piccies are here*

Classes again...

Classes resumed today for the Pickulator and me. I'd love to say that it was a brilliant return, but the lil man hadn't seen his buddy Boomer in ages and I let him play with Felix before class (duh- bad move). So, with the mixture of tired and distracted puppy, I got a little frustrate- there by causing Pickle to shut down. I need to focus on being more positive so that Pickle continues to enjoy playing agility. Class again tomorrow night- more to post then.

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Its been a while since I posted! We haven't had class due to weather, sickness, and a wedding. I believe classes will be resuming next week (YAY!!!) I must admit, I've been kind of lazy and we haven't been training much. Since I have the holiday off, I decided to take the lil monster out and work on directionals. Today was all groundwork- so no physical obstacles. We worked on "left" and "right: queues... which is kinda sorta working- about 70% of the time. I also worked on "outs" in an attempt to have him work further from my body, yet still maintain control. The maintaining control would be the key phrase, at about 10-12 ft of distance- I no longer exist to him at times.