I’ve been upset with myself because I made a poor decision regarding Dulce and agility. I decided both dogs were only getting food off the course.
Well, it completely shut down Dulce to the point she didn’t want to do agility any more.
We didn’t make any progress, even when I put the food back in my pocket at our regular training place.
A lady I’ve known for years started teaching agility at her home, with a really nice field. She changed my approach with Dulce and it’s taken months, but yesterday at her Obsession sessions, Dulce was into agility all day. I lost her every once in a while, but it was in the same places the other dogs got lost. We never did figure out why.
We ran the Novice/Starter course 3 times, and the Advanced course 2 times. They were tough courses much harder than we’ll see at the National Beagle Specialty. Even the Novice/Starter course had lots of backsides.
I’ve learned something important – I have to have a verbal party just about every obstacle. Which is different because my dogs have always run better when I was as quiet as possible, they wanted me just to call the obstacles.
She doesn’t like to run agility when it’s hot or even sunny. But maybe we can change that.
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