Good Class for Us Tonight

Bayley had her 2nd Beg Obed and Beg Agility classes tonight. Now I did use her prong on her in the obedience class and it really helped. Didn't need to do much in the line of corrections but since she does tend to be a bit hmmm, I guess you could say independent, it helps me alot. Probably helps my confidence so that translates to her, even if I don't correct her. From my riding days, it's kind of like if you have a horse that has a mind of it's own and I did, then sometimes a tap with the crop is all you need to say hey, we're working you listen. I never carried a crop regularly but there was the odd time when it came in handy. She focussed alot better and this was with more dogs in the class, including a few very noisy Shepherds who weren't there last week. I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm doing a halfway decent job with my dog.

She had an absolute blast in her agility class...my dog has a thing for tunnels! We were working off leash and she spotted the tunnel..zoom in one end and then she did it at least 4 times before she settled enough to come back to me. Any agility courses with just tunnels?!?! I'm thinking I'm going to put a tunnel on the teeter!! She did the teeter 3 times, it's a practice teeter so it's very low and nice and wide. After the 3rd time she'd had enough of that. Ah well it will come. This was towards the end of the class and she was losing her focus and getting tired.

It's funny, there's one dog in the class; a hound and this dog will just not settle for his people. Always pulling, never quiet, seems to not pay any attention to his people. When they take him for walks, he's like a freight train. So the trainer decided, for the heck of it, let's try a prong on him. Well, first the dog didn't know quite what to do. He's so used to pulling, it was quite an adjustment for him. The trainer didn't make any corrections, the hound did it all himself but it worked nicely, a little drama from the dog.

Now I suppose some could say that the dog was shutting down but I didn't see any signs of it. He was much more attentive and actually managed a few very nice sits. Earlier in the class, he was constantly up and pulling and jumping up. I have a feeling now his people will be much more willing to take him for walks and he'll get more fun time and exercise.

Oh and during the agility class, one of the other dogs had an attack of the zoomies..heheh it's not just my dog who's a kookie puppy. Bayley was soo good and stayed in a sit, no barking or growling. (no prong) I'm sure if I let her she'd have joined in.

Ok I guess I'm done now..sorry so long..oh and the trainer told me that I have a very cool dog Pretty neat compliment I think. Of course he told me to keep really working on getting her to focus and listen to me.