Nov 4th - at the barn

Tonight with the puppies we worked on weaves, jump grids, set point and the frame. We started with the weaves to make sure they were fresh. There were only 6 weaves so we worked entries at harder angles. He only gets half the entries so we really need to go back to 2x2's! The jump grids went well, using a 6' spacing, 3 small jumps to the spread. We moved the spread from 15' away back to about 19' and then back to 15'. Ripley knocked the bar down once on the double but after that he jumped really well. He focused forward to his toy well. The set point was to the hoop, like his brother, Ripley seems to really like this piece of equipment. We put the hoop up as high as it goes which we are hoping is around 26". Our final thing with the puppies was the frame, we did one laterally away - he got a great 2o2o contact with this one. The next was calling to me - this he had a bit of problems with and Andrea needed to support him. The next one was sending him over - with Andrea's help he did this pretty nice. The final one was running with him - he came off the frame the first time but nailed it the final time.

**we did all the work with the puppies on our left hand side. We need to make sure that next week we do it all on our right side**

Baxter and Peso did more of the Clean Run sequences. He had trouble getting into the weaves from the straight jump but was very high tonight. For a change, Linda had Johny Cash there so I am not sure if it is all the agility he has been doing or the fact that JC was there?! Anyway, he got a nice rear cross into the weaves which was great. He was a bit sloppy on his turns and also ignored my body language that said to serp and left to go through a tunnel! Will have to watch these.

Abbey came in to work with the class. First I worked her on the A-frame, trying to get her into a very quick release from 2o2o with a target plate. She had some nice frames but not really sure that she is fast enough. We also did some recalls between Andrea and I so I am not sure if we wore her out a bit?! We ran the same courses from Clean Run and it seemed that Abbey took down the one jump that was in the deeper dirt. I am hoping it was just the footing as she didn't have any other jumping issues. She did a nice serp over the 16" and never missed a weave entry! even the rear cross one :) Overall she was a bit slow today but really read my body well.