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Took a little sneak peek ahead on next week’s games and did some send and go. He’s definitely getting the exercise much more than the first time around. My focus was more on toy management (after the first unauthorised victory lap) and trying to get it back. Haha
(He had sniffy training last night and I’m starting to get some nice freeze indications on odour today. Such a good boy.)
Noise!!! And movement
Baby Barry loved this wobble board when he was younger but I freaked him out by having it on the concrete. It’s never made a noise before! And it’d been a while since we’d played with it too. After he’s worried I added a yoga mat underneath to stop the noise, once he was happy again, I moved one corner off the yoga mat to make a noise. I think we have a bit of work to do!This is from Friday. I was really pleased cos he managed to figure out how to get all 4 paws on a narrow plank and he seems to be getting the hang of “break”.
Yeah. I was surprised I got an appointment that fast haha (also it wasn’t my good physio as she’s blown her cruciate). Seeing a g.p. is much harder. At least I don’t have to pay for it as its covered by ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) (a sort of government insurance scheme so people can’t sure others if there’s an accident).
I struggle with the balance between letting him have his victory lap, and being worried if I ask for the toy too soon and he blows me off that I’m reinforcing him blowing me off.
The knee was not better this morning… went to the physio, thankfully nothing’s torn but it would seem my patella has a slight tracking issue, and everything went in the wrong direction. Physio reckons i should be feeling better after a week. I currently have a crutch. (I don’t need crate rest but I’m only allowed “on leash” walks) haha.
I haven’t run fly in over 10 years so not sure about the format. But i do think it suffers from the kiwi desire to make everything more difficult.
Link is awesome. I love it as a bridging activity to competition, because you run a full course, with timers and a judge but it isn’t in a full show environment.
Here i am trying to beat baby Barry to the toy. You will see at the end why I’m currently sitting on the couch icing my knee. Hahaha
I forgot to tell you how many runs in fly. In a competition, it’s a knock out so the dog might have to do the course multiple times against different dogs, depending how many dogs are entered, and if it wins..i dont know if there’s a maximum number of entries. This was “link”, they do 3 runs and submit their fastest time. Link is a fun thing we do. Every club in the country sets up the same course (agility, fly and hoopers), we submit our results and the best get ribbons at the end of the year.
Hellooo Yes I do have more pods, I was thinking of starting with boxes front and back (not sure i’ve done much targeting with all 4 feet) then add the pods at the back.
The pods are from flexiness – i love their stuff, nice and stable. I have the pods, twindisc and sensimat. I did a quick check and it looks like Cleanrun has all the flexiness gear. (I figured there had to be a US distributer if there’s a distributer in lil old NZ)
Haha yeah I thought you’d laugh at Tank going “yeah, nah” to the weaves.
The box is definitely 😬
It fascinates me how some dogs do much better in flygility than normal agility…possibly because reinforcement is clearer and the handler is out of the picture haha.
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I was super duper proud of baby Barry… especially considering how much he loves other people and other dogs. Which is a new training challenge for me. hahaBaby Barry did his first scent work class tonight. He did so good. Super happy and confident in a strange environment. Switched between toy and treats.
But before we went to class we did a tiny piece of shaping. I went into this session just seeing what I’d get. This is his first time doing the “pods”, so i was happy with his thoughtful foot placement. Then I stepped it up to get one foot on each and he delivered!
(YouTube turned this into a short sorry)
Here’s us doing a tunnel. (I know this isn’t this week’s games but … the tunnel was there). Flygility was also there. He coped with people moving around behind him but not dogs running fly.
(As they were doing flygility right there I thought you might be interested to see some flygility. Apparently a straight course is very unusual, a recent top level course had two (2) x 6 pole weaves with extreme entries and exits… which is too much weaving if you ask me!)
