22 April 2008

At agility tonight Ruby did the Dogwalk several times and is getting more confident on it. We trained with Helen tonight on contacts and weaves. Helen wanted the dogs to do the contact equipment and then wait 2 oin 2 off at the end. Ruby really loves this. She does her show stand at the end of my DW any any opportunity. Helen put a small lid out to put food on and ruby was using it as a target so she obviously hasn't forgotten the target training I did.

We did the weaves from both sides and went over a jump and into the weaves. Ruby can do the weaves fairly well with me on either side and we are building up speed as I run ahead it encourages her to do them quicker. I need to kerep running in the same direction as if i turn even slightly towards another jump she will follow but I am training her to ignore that separately.

The other dogs did the seesaw but I didn't ask Ruby to do it. She has done the DW several times now but I have not asked her to do a full size seesaw since she had her DW problems as she regards the SS in the same light.

At the end of the lesson Ruby was asking to go home and we were approaching the seesaw so I told her it was a seesaw and asked her if she would do it and she did! She went up at a reasonable speed waited for it to tip and then down to the contact. I clicked and we sprinted for the exit as this is the biggest reward I can give her. An inner voice said maybe I should just ask her to do it one more time but I resisted the temptation and we finished on a good note. What a little star she is.