Dylan,  Flyball,  Training

Training

Very happy with Dylan’s agility training this week. We still have runs in competition where I have no idea what he’s thinking or why he’s acting the way he does, but that is a general Dyl-me problem, not an agility-specific problem. In terms of actual agility, it feels like we’re at our peak right now. I can’t retrain some of our bad habits (wide turns!) but we work with what we have and it’s good.

Super confident dogwalks, just what I love to see. He sometimes stops just off the contact, but that’s my fault as I quick-release 80% of his contacts and I spent too much time when he was younger rewarding for “trying to stop”, so his criteria is a little vague. I wanted more independent contacts but I’m so used to managing Kim’s that it’s not too difficult for me. I want Rio’s to be more independent though, Dyl really struggles with dogwalks where I’m a long way behind him, and I don’t want that again.

Flyball … hmm. We’re still not sure what our lineup for the Champs is going to be, which for me is frustrating. I hate feeling unprepared going into an event I care about! I’m confident that Dylan will be happy with whichever dogs are on his team, as the two reserves are both smooth coated, predictable, and non-scary in Dylan’s eyes. We should know what we’re doing by Saturday, although that leaves us with just one training session to go.

Dylan is running really well at the moment however. There is always work to do on maintaining his turn but I’m happy.