Oct 9th - at the barn

Yesterday was a rainy day so we didn't get to practice outside. I wasn't too worried about B since he did so amazing on Tue I figured he could use a break anyway. Probably true for Rip.

Tonight I headed to the barn to do an hour of practice as Andrea was still away and then an hour of class. I was being lazy and so I only took Baxter as I didn't want any barking and figured that I couldn't actually get through 2 dogs without chaos. (I know...lazy). In a way it was a good thing, it took me 15 minutes to stake in those darn weavepoles.

I found another set of sequences in an older Clean Run that I thought I would use. I figured for class I could replace the weaves with a tunnel and use them for the young group.

Here are the sequences:
Baxter's start lines were pretty good. He only moved 2 times over the session but I think he is shifting too much again. I need to think about what to do, it seems like if you give him an inch, he starts to take miles and the next thing I know...he will not hold a stay again. I just can't have that happen again.

For the first two times in sequence 1, B was not listening to my voice but might have been my body language sending him to the table instead of the weaves (those were the only two times he didn't get the entry all night!!) For his third attempt I really rotated my shoulders and he went right into the weaves.

Otherwise he ran the rest of the sequences quite nicely. He had the odd bar down and I believe he only went into the tunnel the first time on sequence 2 and otherwise did no other off courses. Overall it was a really good night with lots of success.

Tomorrow I need to get outside and work Rip. I am hoping this few days of break will have done him some good. I will work on both weaves (I don't think he is as ready as Baxter) and jumping.