Rio's First Class

Rio attended her first Foundation Agility Skills class yesterday!

She has been through a puppy-tunnel a few times, but has never seen the proper heavy duty pipe tunnel. She thought it was pretty easy though! We did a few recalls through a straight tunnel with lots of tugging, and then did some tunnel, wrap around a pole, and back into the tunnel. I was way too nervous and messed up a few times though! The exercise included equipment but was actually nothing she hasn’t done before, (a recall and then a turn around a pole to a toy).

The class is 30mins long and she was losing her ability to concentrate by the end; she tried very hard, held her wait, but she wasn’t focussing on what was happening so I just rewarded her wait and called it a night. I fully expected this and was actually surprised she lasted as long as she did!

I’m mostly pleased with how focused she was. When we were working she was concentrating on the job in hand, and nothing else. During our downtime whilst the other dogs worked, I tried to make sure she got the opportunity to say hi to everyone in the class (it’s a tiny class, just four dogs). She was polite and when she indicated she was done saying hi, we moved away. I tried to make sure she for the opportunity to sit and watched the other dogs working but she was more interested in engaging with me since I had kibble. Apparently if you have an early tea it doesn’t even count as tea, and she was starving, don’t you know?