work with collar on aframe

In this session, I have to grab her collar and make her stop on the end and show her what I want.  I think it helped some.

good aframe with speed

This is a good aframe for Canon.  she had some momentum going up on the aframe and still held her contact.

work on aframe run off

I worked her aframe after she gave me the run off.  I got a few more run offs and got to really work with her to hopefully get her to understand that she is to hold it.  I had to hold her collar as she came over the aframe to get her to see she was to stop at the bottom with her feet on the aframe.  It helped.  we continue to work it.

sit stay - af run off

this is Canon doing a great Sit stay while I walk the course.  Also she runs off the aframe and does not hold.  We work on it in this session and make improvements.  more videos to follow

AFrame and DW work 5-25-11

Canon is stopping short of the end on the DW.  Have to work on that.  Her big error on the AF is that she runs off the end and does not stop if she has a lot of momentum.  We are working and proofing it.

Marietta USDAA trial May 13-15th

We went to try and get our GP Q so we can run GP at regional next weekend.  BUMMER.  We missed the DW down contact so we did not get our Q.  Here is a video of the course.  She ran a beautiful course and IF she had gotten the Q, she would have placed 3rd.  I am really bummed out about it, but NOT about her run.  We had many heart breakers this weekend.  We did Q on a couple of runs. 

May 6th, 2011 practice!!!

Well, we have been trialing and it has rained for the past 3 weeks such that we could not go out in the yard and practice.  Tonight after work was the first time I could work with the dogs in the yard.  I setup a series of jumps around the obstacles and worked with Canon on them.  We have been working on weave entries a lot because I could work that pretty quickly and she has missed some lately.  I have my channels open about 3 inches cause I am repeating her entrances and I want to encourage her to go fast and not cause any injuries.  I only have her doing 6 weaves.  I will add the other 6 next week when we are preparing for the trial.  She is doing a fabulous job with it.  She also did an excellent job holding her AFrame contact and her DW contact.  I did some sprints through some jumps spread out around the yard and want to do that each day to keep her in shape.  I think the Happy Dog trial wore her out with all the runs. She was fatigued by Sun.  Good day practicing.

Skills practiced and rating:  (1-10, with 10 best)
AFrame - 10
AFrame tunnel discrimination 10
weave entries 10
Start line 7 she left once and I had to put her back

turns and wraps 7 she missed a few turns coming out of the tunnels.  I have a 9 ft tunnel under the aframe and she shoots out of it and takes the next jump.  I worked getting her to check with me.  some success, but we need to work this skill.