Training in the Rain

Today Heidi and Megan have been for some agility training at Diamond Dog Training in Somerset with Mike and Clare Bacon. Megan went first and me and her had a half an hour lesson with Clare. I was impressed with what Megan had remembered from the few times we had been to Up and Over together. We did the A-Frame and Dog Walk and she did lovely contacts at the end without having to be reminded and we had only done them a few times before! We practiced them and getting her to wait whilst I walked away. We also did channel weaves and we finished with them really close together so Meg was actually doing the weaving motion. We had a go with the V-Weaves too and the tunnel (which Megan loves).

Conor and Heidi had an hour lesson after us with Mike. Mike noticed that Heidi is really focused on Conor and doesn't always watch where she is going and fully commit to going ahead as she is always looking for her dad so today they worked on her going away from him and then Mike delivering her reward so she isn't falling off equipment trying to find her daddy! The video clip below is the two of them doing a small sequence of obstacles and Heidi going ahead to complete the Dog walk without looking for Conor.

They also worked on their weaves too. Heidi has only been taught on upright weaves and she isn't very accurate often missing out a couple so they took her back to doing some channel weaves and then moved onto the V-weaves which were far more effective for her and she was certainly getting it by the end, so guess what I have been shopping for online since we got back...a set of V-weaves. I have found 2 companies at reasonable prices, just waiting to find out the postage costs from each before I decide who to go with. Oh and the majority of our training today was done in the pouring rain so yet again we were soaked through!