25 April 2008

this morning on our walk I decided to concentrate on Saffy's movement for showing. She tends to put her head down and charge along a bit like a bull terrier, where she should move with a bit of grace and elegance. she will never be as light on her feet as Ruby as she is a completely different build but I decided that I ought to be able to improve it a bit so I clicked her for looking at a titbit and then started trotting and clicking for trotting with her head up. this did improve it quite a lot. I also need to work on left turns while doing this. She does come to a stop in quite a nice stand but then often swings her bum round so she is not straight, but has her bum to the judge so I am also practicing standing in one position.