DSF: Week 3
We sat farther away from the door this week at our Dog Sports Fundamentals class and Knight's focus improved 150% haha. The only time it suffered was during the group heeling. He gets a bit nervous with larger dogs looming over him.
We worked on recalls, foundation for drop on recall, heeling, and some right side walking. She introduced the drop on recall in a really interesting way that I had never though of before. She brought us each a peice of the broad jump and we set it upright. The dogs were on one side and the handlers on the other. We released them then asked for a down as they approached the board, then backed up while keeping the board in place if they did it correctly.
But yes, that went well, OH, we also worked on targetting a... well a target, or in our case a coffee cup lid. DK picked up super quickly so I'll add some distance at home this week.
Show Handling
We finally got out to show handling this week. Knight did really well. He was a bit skittish when the black GSD got too close to us, but so was I. The owner had little to no control of her dog 90% of the class.
Besides that, he was gaiting really well, stunning free stacks (as always), and even surprised me with some stellar confidence up on the table. Our instructor was pretty impressed with him and asked to make sure I was getting out in the ring with him. Most of our classmates will be over at the Ludwigs so it should be a really fun weekend. I just need to go out and buy another skirt... probably a black one to wear with one of my blue tops?
The Rally-O Diaries
Day 3
I have not forgetten about these! Just the videos haven't been coming as frequently as I had hoped lol. I worked on Knight's "go to heel" and he picked it up in about 30 seconds.
His straight heeling is looking, or feeling, pretty snazzy now too, along with all his right turns. We just need to clean up our left turns and I think we'll be pretty decent for the trial :)
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