A successful day for Deets!

Well, it's been a busy last week for the dogs. Landon has been working steadily at his 12 sets of weaves and doing a very admirable job. He's got about 80% accuracy... he pops out of the last two poles so we're opening up the weaves for him at the end so he has some good chances for success. His distance work is getting great and we're finally getting really good at it.

Mimzy's head has sort of been in the clouds the past few days, and I can't help but feel it's the weather finally warming up and all the nice smells of Spring coming out. She's slowly working the contact trainer to learn her "holds" but she's slower than Deets is at learning and I sometimes forget to slow down with her. She is very good at getting her two-on, two-off and waiting, but only when she sees me stop. If I keep running or hold back she doesn't go all the way to the bottom. We played the Teeter Totter Game again today, and she was much better about it than last session. She is not nearly as afraid of the board coming down, and is now jumping to push the board down from about 2 feet up in the air. She'll be doing her "C" in no time!

Today was really Deets' successful day. We went to train and he's finally really got his contacts. We moved up to the big A-frame and Dog-walk and he's got them about 90% of the time... he stops 2-on, 2-off and freezes with complete attention on me to go to the next obstacle. This means the only thing we have left to learn before we can compete in Standards is the weave poles. Aaaannnd.... we've just about got those! Today was Deets/ 4th day of 2X2 training, with several short sessions every day. In that time, we've added a second set of poles moving in toward the first, gone to weaving four poles, and tonight we added another set and now have 6 weaves in four days. We're going to wait here for a few days and get this really solid and taking the weaves from all over "the clock", and some hard entires. We'll also add in a jump before, so he learns to sequence the weaves in. After we spend some more time doing that, we will add a second set of 6 weaves and begin closing those together to get 12 poles. Should take us less than a week.