Miss Rio, 10 Months

I think skipping agility class for a few weeks is a good idea. I needed to scale back a bit, and focus on getting her working attitude when we’re working together in the park, or at competitions in the exercise area, and of course at flyball training. Well, she’s always focused at flyball, it’s all running and no thinking right now. Rio’s favourite kind of game!

Once I feel like she’s focusing and working when I ask her to, regardless of where we are, we’ll head back to agility. I sort of missed this step out, and went from home to agility class. I’m feeling a little pleased with myself for spotting it though, and for taking the action to correct it before we got any further down the wild unfocused puppy path.

Rio is 10 months old now, and although I occasionally panic and think we haven’t done nearly enough for her age, I’m actually really happy with how she’s going. Ri’s foundation has held up, and so far nothing has really phased her in training terms. Everything feels like a very natural progression, and it’s such a relaxing process for both of us.

Her contact training is also going great! She’s offering the 2o2o position whenever she sees the board and we’re just having fun with it. I’m not touching her or moving her into position, it’s about her making the choice to rear-paw target to the board and get into position. Very little movement yet, I’ll start adding that in soon, but I am very happy with how it’s looking so far. I will film it soon!