Nov 3rd - at the barn

Today we worked the puppies and boys at the barn to make up for missing last night.

We first did some circle work, sit-stays and hand touches. Ripley is not very good at the circle work, we really need to work on this. His sit-stays away from equipment were pretty solid, not moving his feet or sitting forward. The hand touches were definitely an improvement! He did put his teeth on me two times but after correction he used just his nose.

Andrea set up a jumping type grid to work on 270's etc. Unlike Phe, Ripley has not really worked on this so I used his toy to get him to stay on the outside of the 270. After some help he was actually doing the 270 pretty well. I also did some straight lines with me moving and him driving to his toy. It was much better tonight than it has been in a long time, not too many jumps down :)

Baxter came in and we worked on the same circle work, sit-stays and hand touches. All 3 went well with B, he is good at most of those. He needs to learn to nose touch multiple times though, something to work on!

Baxter did not read the 270 that well but after some help he was doing it ok. He doesn't go out very wide so when he is jumping the second jump he is really slicing the jump. When I need him to go straight across the box I either have to call his name or else he takes the off course jump leaving the box at an angle. Andrea mentioned that I should be at the wing on the jump across the box but Baxter wasn't reading that either. His jumping was good though, with minimum bars down.