So this week we went to a new training venue just down the road from me, so nice to only drive 5 mins instead miles....
nice venue outside with a beautiful view and had great fun. People are lovely and it will supplement beautifully what I do at Devon Dogs so another one to add to the calendar. Wren was funny on the dog walk again same as she was at Honiton. Will go flying up the up plank but if I stop to send her ahead she will stop, spin and jump off so definitely not confident.
I had a 1-2-1 today with Lauren and mentioned about the dog walk issue; what a plonker am I? I am upping habitat so need to drop criteria on something else i.e. make it easier and work on from there. So for the moment it is run down to the end with her and back off bit by bit, hopefully the more venues we do that in the more she will generalise. She never has a problem at shows but I think that is the arousal that kicks in and takes over so hopefully if she will be confident in any venue it will only get better and quicker in competition. We worked alot on weaves and me crossing behind at odd angles, considering we haven't done any weaves since 16th dec other than Saturday she hasn't forgotten anything so shows how good the 2x2 weave understanding is, so was very pleased with that.
Had a contact workshop later on and I worked on alot of end contacts and getting her to drive to the end (we were outside and she hasn't worked there in months so we had the same spin as if we were at a new venue), towards the end she looked loads better but of course plenty more work to do before out first show on 21st March.
Lauren timed contacts at the end and I will be honest and say I was disappointed, she did the dog walk in 2.6 me recalling her or 3.5 doing a send on. I think she can be lot quicker than that especially when we are inside the barn as that is where she is very confident. Think it would be worth seeing what that time would be to give me an idea of what she will do when she is feeling confident.
So all in all a very good weekend full of useful stuff..
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