I stopped blogging about my dogs training as I didn't have the time anymore but looking back on it a few nights ago I realised what a good source of memories it was and really made me smile so ive decided to attempt to do it again.
So since the last post in 2016 a fair bit has happened...ill do a quick catch up!
Heidi and Chaos both won into Grade 5 in 2017, Chaos competed at the Belgian Shepherd World Championships in May 2017 for team GB, Bridget got Best Of Breed at Windsor Champ show in June 2016 and qualified and competed at Crufts 2017 before we hung up our showing hat. Sadly we also lost Brian back in June 2017 after a short spell of illness. Kody has now fully retired from Agility, Heidi is still loving Agility at 10 years old! We have our own AstroTurf indoor building for training now too, its not massive (20m x 7m) but big enough to train short sequences and single jump exercises and weaves.
This morning I took all of the dogs over to the building to do some training. Its been a while since they have worked on skills. We picked cone wraps as our training for today. Brenda and Kody have not done it before so they leaned how to wrap a cone in both directions. Chaos is a cone pro so it was just a bit of fun for him. Bridget has limited enthusiasm for it so we have to keep it short and sweet and Heidi has far too much! We worked on their pull through skills today though and got there in the end, will carry on tomorrow.
We also started to work on their weave entries, Chaos and Heidi are needing to do more difficult entries now and although we have done it before they are a little rusty!
Video clip below of Brenda weaving, I taught her about 3 years ago but haven't done it since. She hadn't forgotten!!!
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