this weekend its all about DOOLEY

Today we had a training after noon with Martin Tait. I was so looking forward to it,  

It was going to be an afternoon for  just me and my boy,  we don't get many of them since princess pushy arrived!

The weather was kind to us again :-) bit windy but not too cold and deffo not raining 

A nice group to work with, me, Claire, Sarah, Dan, Mike, Toni ,Darin and a lady called Mary,  Dooley rather took a shine to her golden retriever ??????????????

We started off by doing some jump and tunnel exercises , adjusting the speed the which we were moving as the dogs  were entering the tunnel,  i think we were all surprised by the results 

We then did some box work using different handling methods 

after that we did some obstacle discrimination using a tunnel and an A frame Poor Dooley again the things he has to put up with ! we had to stand facing our dogs between the tunnel and the a frame and call them over a jump and send them in to the tunnel with out moving so off i go......... get to the end of the tunnel turn face Dooley and say tunnel to him of course he just sits there looking at me like i had lost my mind ????????

so we try again this time with Go Tunnel Haha easy when you say the right words !!!!!!!

after that we tested our release commands on the bottom of the  frame we had to leave our dogs in position while we stood with our backs to them with our arms crossed and gave our release command !

 Claire passed with flying colours!the only one in the group,  some of us were worse than others. I think Dooley was the worst :-( may be due to the fact he didn't stop the 1st time so i put him right back on he wasn't going to get off that time we could still be there now i think !!!!!!!

we then were given a course to run that included some of the bits that we had been talking about during the session 

this 1st video is of our 1st attempts as you can see it was a bit beyond us !!!!!!

when i say us i think i mean me and my stupid arms !!!! why is it when i watch it back i can see what i have done wrong but still continue to do it GRRRRRRRRRRR so annoying 

as some one once said irritation is motivation and believe me its beginning to irritate me NOW !

                             

After we had all had 1 go we had a bit of a chat about what had gone wrong and then we were give the chance to run it again 

ARMS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is all i need to say about this attempt ....for goodness sake it cant be that hard can it ?????????

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for every negative you should always take a positive  so 

my arms ............... the speed with which he now goes in the wrong direction :-)

my arms ..............the willingness he now shows to have another go to see if i can get it right !!!!

my arms ............. the look of pure joy he has on his face now when he knows where we are 

well we have sorted the feet out now NICE NEW BOOTS :-) thanks for he heads up on them 

                    NOW IF I COULD JUST SORT MY ARMS OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!