Just another day of training

Well, today was just another day of training. I started in the front yard with Deets working on his 2X2s, and he still remembered perfectly how to get weaves his 6 poles. He's a little bad about getting his entry from the right side, which I recognize as my own fault for mistakes made with step 1 in the 2X2 method, but it's nothing I can't fix with good repetition, and now I know better so I won't make the same mistake with Mimzy.

All the dogs and I loaded up and went out to CMStreek to work on the field in the afternoon. Landon and I worked on going to the tunnel from a distance of about 15 feet, which is a skill I realized we needed to work on at the last trial when he wouldn't complete the gamble in USDAA gamblers. Then we did some weaves and I let him quit for the day, seeing as how good he's been lately and he was already getting hot and therefor tired.

Mimzy and I worked on going to the tunnel, too, but she's splendid at that so we worked contacts on the contact trainer. I was able to move the trainer to a steeper slope today, and she was still great about hitting the bottom and stopping. She's a little slow about it when I stay behind her... she doesn't like to go all the way to the bottom, and sometimes when she does she turns around to look at me. She's getting there, though. We played the teeter totter game some more and she actually went up the board and made the teeter go down by herself, but she was very hesitant about it, so I think we need to play with the obstacle on the ground more and maybe with the wobble board some more.

Deets and I worked on some distance jumps and tunnels, too, and he's so reliable at a distance. We worked on contacts on the A-frame and Dog-walk and he is just great with them. He stops two-on/two-off every time and waits for me to tell him to go. Then we grabbed a set of 6 weave poles and worked the 2X2 method working around the "clock" a bit, and even threw in a jump for fun.