Anyway, I decided that I would only take B with me as I had a very short time to train and after Rip's mind blowing experience last night, I figure he could use a night off to relax. I found some sequences in Clean Run from a few years back that I thought would be easy to set up and work on the skills we have been practicing. This was also going to be the first time that I had used the weaves outside of my backyard since we started retraining them. I didn't have 2x2's there so it was a straight set of 6. I used the food tube at the end of the weaves to ensure that B kept his head down and drove straight out (Sue's suggestion...it really works!)
Here are the sequences:
I started with the white circles on the top left and thought, well...lets see if he can get in that entry. The first try I was standing at the left wing of 11 but Baxter did not read that to come to me and went into the tunnel. The next sequence I stood between 10-11 and used my movement to bring him with me and he read this well and never doubted where he was suppose to go. It was not a very tight serp so his first time he entered the weaves after pole 2 but I went back, re-did the serp a bit tighter with him really slicing 12 and he nailed the entry, really wrapped his body and then flew through them :) I just couldn't believe my eyes. I thought, could that have been luck, so I redid that one and he did it again! I was making such a fuss over him and what an "amazing boy" he was that the barn owner came in to see what he had done :))I then went on to do black circles which was an easier entry but with a bit of speed coming into them and again nailed them :) Next was the white squares. In the Clean Run, the person had said to use your threadle arm to get your dog over 3 and then send into the weaves with your right arm. I thought, well why not try it. For the first time EVER....Baxter barked at me! lol. I couldn't believe it and still laugh when I think of it. He still did it perfect and got his weaves.
So since he seemed to be getting these harder entries but without a ton of speed I decided to try and get some speed going and send him straight into the weaves to see if that was something he would do and so I did the white circles on the bottom right. He did it!! :)) I was so happy with him, you couldn't have imagined.
Then I thought well lets try a threadle to the weaves, did it awesome too. So to make sure I wasn't imagining it, I did the first sequence again as our final one and he nailed it for the 3rd time! He did have a few knocked bars throughout the night but I felt that our main goal was to keep him with me/connected and weave poles, which I feel was a success.
It was an awesome night (wish Andrea had been there...do you feel guilty yet?! lol) I guess all this work with B seems to be paying off, I am so proud of him!
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