We train for agility every day in the park and we are hoping to train some contacts at home. I am making a Dog walk ramp and an A Frame to teach Canon how to stay in the contact zone on each of these while running over them.
Cheddar is already competing in Agility and is at the Excellent A level. She is working on getting faster in the ring. She has let confidence slow her down. As she gains confidence, she is getting faster. I trained her to stop at the end of each contact and stay at a 2 on 2 off position, but due to her speed, she needs to begin to just run off the end. She has been particularly slow on the teeter. we have been working on that and she has gotten more speed now. She has a trial this weekend at home, so we can test our progress. She moved up to Excellent after a year in Open. We did not compete the whole year, but we trained and retrained and we also got a puppy in that time, so lots of adjustments were made.
Canon is just beginning to learn agility. She is quite fast and will listen for my cues. So far, we are just doing jumps and tunnels in the ring. She had an injury to her toe that caused us to have to sit out of training from 7mos old to 11mos old. We thought it was OCD, but found it to be torn cartilidge on her toe. We were able to repair this through massage therapy.
We are learning our contacts, but are still on the ground with them. She loves to run, but does not yet know what she is doing on the contact zones. I need to hurry up and get her ramps built.
I have a backyard pool and it is very hard to keep Canon out of it. Cheddar does not prefer to swim! She only likes to get wet up to her ankles!
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