Sunday was a busy day for the dogs. Decker, Chili and I left the house with Cooper, Tsuzi and Julie fairly early in the morning and went to a fun match. Cooper and Julie played conformation (and quite nicely too), Tsuzi hung out and kept us company, and Decker, Chili and I did Open obedience run-throughs. Both Chili and Deck were pleasantly surprise to see that their "Auntie" CJ was playing "judge" for the match. Confidence is always Chili's "issue" and she was quite happy in the ring on most of the exercises. Most of her errors were anticipation errors which I am happy to deal with as it means she is really "in the game". We have a bit of confidence building and proofing to do on the drop on recall and broad jump. Decker was his usual merry self. Never the most precise worker in obedience, he always has a good time and puts smiles on the faces of those watching. He does a pretty job job "getting her done" too, just not quite as smoothly as Chili.
While we were off enjoying ourselves, Jan was left dealing with naughty Stoker and Ecko at home. The two bad girls slipped into the garage as I was hurrying out the door to the match and helped themselves to a box of chicken necks I had thawing there. Ten pounds of necks later, Jan discovered them and had the delightful chore of inducing vomiting to relieve their distress from their gluttony. Stoker was so full of chicken necks she couldn't even jump on the couch!
After the match, Julie helped mind Chili while I laid a few short tracks for her. Chili seems to be catching on to this new game pretty quickly and I just need to hope that I don't do anything to mess her up before I get another chance to track with a friend who knows how to do this better than I....
We goofed off for a couple of hours when we got home, then did a little agility (just jumps and weaves) in the front yard before dinner. Ecko is doing 6 closed up weaves pretty accurately now, even with a little more difficult entry and she is gaining speed and sequencing with jumps before and after too. After I worked her, Jan came out and worked all three of the other dogs. Wow! We worked with Decker on rear crosses and I think he is finally starting to "get" them. I can set things up in our small yard so it doesn't really make sense for him to spin the wrong way and just do small sequences to help him get things right. Stoker ran really well for Jan. He asked a lot more of her than I usually do and she hung in there with him and didn't try to quit on him at all.
No comments:
Post a Comment