Saturday, January 16, 2010

Agility training


Photo of Shilo with Jake and Chloe on the bed.  Shilo desperately wants to play with the kittens but her style of play is not theirs.  Every now and then Jake chases her and she thinks he is playing.

We went to Cheryl's last night to do some agility training with Shilo.  I want her to compete in Novice this year so want to get the contacts sorted.  She is certainly different to train from my previous dogs.  We can't use a toy as she totally focuses on that and food works but again it hard to get her back to the exercise at the time.  She did do some good contacts and I have to develop yet another style of running for this little dog.  At least I no longer compete with Casey or I would get totally confused out there in the ring.

She is more like Rocky in some ways but in others not.  Rocky at least does the course without distraction.  Shilo is so busy looking around at other things so misses the entrance to the tunnel or goes past the dog walk.  i now have to go right in to the middle of the cross over or she cuts the middle out and jumps from one ramp to the next.  Somehow I think running at Norwest is going to be interesting.

We got home late last night and the kittens were inside asleep.  We will keep locking them in at night for some time yet but was pleased they were in without actually being locked in. Chloe is definitely Stuart's cat as she calls out to him for attention but seems to avoid me.  It could be interesting next week when he goes in to hospital for his surgery.

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