Raining Again

Waiting on Rio to go into season at the moment. I sometimes can’t remember why I’m bothering to go through this! I’d really like her to come in any day around now, really …

Ri is running super at agility, we are starting to string together our foundation work into longer sequences now. She ran at small height for the first time this week and after jumping the first one or two she decided that crashing through the poles was easier. It’s a novelty to have a dog who knocks poles! I do think she’s just figuring out her legs however, and she made a much bigger effort to keep the poles up with a bit of selective reward placement. My handling and timing is not great with her, we still haven’t really figured each other out and she’s a lot faster than Dylan.

She is also doing really well at her obedience class, and I’m hoping to start Rally with her in October! It’s actually something I’ve been wanting to do with Dylan, but he can’t cope with a class environment. I popped into the hall with him after class one week, with two other dogs present (one he has known for 6yrs, one he doesn’t) and he has a meltdown. I don’t really want to spend the whole class with Dylan trying to sit on my head, so Rio is going to go instead, and hopefully I can teach Dylan the ropes at home.

All the rain over the past couple of days means we haven’t been able to get out and walk the dogs safely, so they are all going a bit stir crazy. Thankfully Rio and Dylan could burn off some steam at agility (which, being on the tops, is safe from flooding!) but it will be nice to get them out into the wilds again.