I’ve been working hard on Dylan’s tug drive and ball obsession since the Rocket Relay seminar. Not making huge progress on the ball obsession, but it’s getting better. I’m finding it a little difficult at the moment as I’ve got a 6ft square to work in and it’s a bit tight! A couple of times, Dylan or I have knocked the dead ball whilst he’s tugging and he’s not tug-focussed enough to ignore a rolling ball at the moment, which means we take a step back. Just need some more work!
Away from the ball, I’ve been trying to be more involved at agility. I always reward Dylan appropriately, but I was really reminded at the seminar that a few lazy tugs isn’t really good enough. So Dylan now gets a proper play, with me putting in as much effort as he does. It’s exhausting for me, but his focus is improving. His Aframe was very nice at training, but I can’t say that’s necessarily from the tug work as he does like doing Aframes at training anyway. I’m not sure it’s making a massive difference actually, apart from making him more tuggy obsessed, although I don’t suppose that’s a bad thing!
I’m trying to make an effort to blog more often, I’ve really been slacking recently.