Ebby Class -- Advanced Rally
First night of Rally Advanced with Ebby last night. (Well, it should have been the second week, but last week there was an, um, unpleasant mess all over the carpet that necessitated me staying home and steam cleaning the entire carpet instead)
Last night was Ebby's first time in class working off-leash, and it went really well. We didn't go while anyone else was in the ring, which helped. The other challenge was that there are not one, not two, but three Standard Poodles in class with us out of maybe 8 dogs total. Ebby is very breedist: she thinks all Shilohs and German Shepherds must be mooned over, and all Poodles must be chased. I don't think I'll be doing off-leash work around the poodles any time soon.
Her heeling and focus last night was actually the best it's been any time ever outside of training in our "backyard". We've been doing "hot dog parties" mid-course recently to keep her attention up for longer stretches of time, but I didn't even need to do it last night and still had full focus until the finish. Whoo hoo!
Things we need to practice, er, learn:
* Jumping. There were two signs Send Over Jump and it may as well have been a brick wall as far as Ebby was concerned. She did the single and broad jumps on her second run only because they were set for small dog and I jumped them with her :D
* 3 steps back -- heeling move where you pause and take 3 backward steps while dog takes backward steps with you. I didn't even try it last night, but I started teaching it this monring and would love to have it down by next class.
Last night was Ebby's first time in class working off-leash, and it went really well. We didn't go while anyone else was in the ring, which helped. The other challenge was that there are not one, not two, but three Standard Poodles in class with us out of maybe 8 dogs total. Ebby is very breedist: she thinks all Shilohs and German Shepherds must be mooned over, and all Poodles must be chased. I don't think I'll be doing off-leash work around the poodles any time soon.
Her heeling and focus last night was actually the best it's been any time ever outside of training in our "backyard". We've been doing "hot dog parties" mid-course recently to keep her attention up for longer stretches of time, but I didn't even need to do it last night and still had full focus until the finish. Whoo hoo!
Things we need to practice, er, learn:
* Jumping. There were two signs Send Over Jump and it may as well have been a brick wall as far as Ebby was concerned. She did the single and broad jumps on her second run only because they were set for small dog and I jumped them with her :D
* 3 steps back -- heeling move where you pause and take 3 backward steps while dog takes backward steps with you. I didn't even try it last night, but I started teaching it this monring and would love to have it down by next class.
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