I take Bryn to Janet Nero's 4PawsAgility club each week - it's great to be able to concentrate on training my own dog rather than feeling I need to watch other people, help them, design exercises etc, and Bryn has come on well there. So I jumped at the chance to join an extra 3 hour training session yesterday afternoon, especially as we have had no agility training all week because of the snow and ice.
Initial aims: to stop him from going off to visit people and to reinforce the wait on the start line. Anything else - a bonus.
Lots of bonus then!! There were only about 6 of us, so we had plenty of opportunity to try out different ways of working exercises - flick flacks, box work, sendaways, redirects, run pasts and more - all focusing on higher drive, better lines, better positioning and cueing. I really enjoyed the afternoon, and Bryn was a good boy! And we had results from the initial aims as well - let's see if they carry through.
As we were leaving it was just starting to snow again, and we had another inch or so overnight. You can have too much of a good thing.......
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