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Timing on the middle wing was tough! leave too early or trip over your crested seemed to be my 2 choices. The whole fam had a go. Maisy was a bit “I’ve finished before you’ve even started” which isn’t surprising lol.
I feel I’ve lost track of time – are we really up to week 9? Yikes.
Live wingin it W4. When I added verbals I think I went at half-speed, lol. I can see she is going to be quite forgiving.
We went back to Live 2 warm up 3 ways. This is our 4th session. They all look pretty much the same although I mistakenly deleted the videos. On the plus side, she has no issue layering. When I sent her to jump 1 she went out to the backside of jump 5 unless I threadled her into the tunnel. So I just started at the tunnel and she kept layering instead of wrapping… I had gone back and just practised wrapping a wing to help her a bit. It was better when I hid jump 4 in the bushes but I don’t see this as a long term strategy. I have to say my presence feels a bit redundant. Of course, the others managed fine although I didn’t ask the pup to layer.
Yes, you are allowed a toy in “not for comp” runs. I will try this. I have entered her in a trial next weekend, mainly to practise her startlines but I will also do some work on weaves and contacts. She was much improved when we practised weaving today.
I’ll set up the fun 2nd Live Package course tomorrow so she has some course practice.
I’d like to think that was the issue but in trials it’s more a “poles, what poles, I don’t see any poles” – she never actually weaves 1.
These are pegged 2x2s and I also have a set of 12 screw in poles on a base that can zigzag but I suspect they will also have some flexibility. I might try and see. At trials we generally have the metal base with 3 sets of 4 poles. The poles drop in the holes which are taller than mine and they fit more snugly.
Idiot that I am, I was putting the wing on the wrong side. I took it away after she knocked it over and replaced it with an x-pen panel. This seemed to confuse her so I did away with the prop altogether. I think it is back to the drawing board on weaves – she has never done more than 1 weave in a trial ie one gap. She generally blasts straight past. If I move, she is inclined to pull out. We have been working on this but not recently.
I cannot figure out where the wing goes (and size) for week 2. It seems like a huge obstacle in the dog’s way…
We’ve had some rain and have been away for a week…
Towards the end we struggled with the rear cross, not sure why.
We tried seq 1b – which was harder than it looked apparently. Maisy tells me I was doing it all wrong. this is a selection of bloopers. The others managed fine. They are so much more forgiving!
I had every confidence Miss “move and I’ll call off it” would not suck into the tunnel. I was almost right! Put the bars on 12″ to avoid the crescendo of crashing bars. Almost worked but she always skims bars regardless of height so there is no margin for error.
I can see a couple of times I pointed her into the tunnel, oops.
Not sure why the jump before the tunnel kept falling. When I put it up to 14″, she did better – on the last rep.
Get a Border Collie they said, it will be fun they said…
Last time we got to this point in your lines course, you sent us off to work the Lazy Game… we did and I think it generally made her commitment better. Then she worked it again when Sassy did it this time. We will keep working it. All 4 of the others can do these sequences, no issues, but Maisy is my agility dog, lol.
We did some work on blinds – these look kinda late to me:
I know Maisy would take me out so she only worked on the lazy game.
Thanks for the great feedback. I did try to follow instructions…and I can see that we are doing better with the middle jump, when she takes it, lol. It only came down once (sadly it is not well shown on the video).
The final jump of the pinwheel came down a few times. Am I leaving too early? not enough connection? I tried running away to the final jump and that just pulled her off the tunnel (maybe edited out).
