Busy Days

Having a quiet day today.

Rio had a very busy day yesterday, lots of socialisation boxes ticked. We drove over to Langsett Barn to see lovely Buzz, her fellow Aussie and still a big puppy at 8 months. They got on very well, and would have loved a run around together but Rio just isn’t big enough to go running around the forest with the big dogs yet. She also met several strange people, an adorable Labrador puppy, and a little Jack Russell. She’s very polite meeting other dogs, and getting increasingly good at meeting new people as well (it’s always been her weak point).

We had a quick stroll around the wood before we headed home, she was a little startled by a weird log but we clicker shaped it and she bounced all over it in minutes so I was very pleased with that.

She also visited agility training for the first time! Our agility arena is on a livery yard/smallholding, so lots of new experiences for her. We didn’t see any horses but she met the cows, plus a whole group of people and dogs of all sizes and attitudes. She was polite, took the hints where necessary, and really wanted to play with Diva.

Dylan worked very well at training, we did some weave exercises and then worked on some in/out box sequences. They were hard on me, I had to get my timing exactly right otherwise I’d send him off in the wrong direction. Much harder than it was with Kim!