Flyball Training

What’s this? Flyball? I still haven’t joined another team and I’m still not really intending to get back into the sport in the immediate future. But a flyball taster session at North K9 came up, and I do quite want to try and teach one of my dogs to have a properly nice boxturn, so I took Rio.

This was back at the venue that we did our Rally trial at, so that was another good reason to get back there. Ri was absolutely fine with it, so I guess the silence and people-staring-at-her was the reason she freaked out last time. Good to see she doesn’t have any particularly negative associations there anyway!

We did some tug/drive work, some restrained recalls, and a little target work too. Beanie was great for the first 10mins, and then started to get distracted and airy-fairy, particularly as a few of the other dogs had squeaky toys. I elected to take her out into the hall and wait there whilst the other dogs worked, and she improved a bit. I got one restrained recall from her that I was happy with, but it does worry me that she still hasn’t got the same desire to work that she had pre-season.

Her target work was brilliant, I’m really happy that she remembered everything and she was very focused during this session; apparently click+treat = awesome focused times! I’m going to try and get her onto the chute at some point this month too, although I realise my List of Things to Do this month is suddenly looking pretty long.

I did some ball/tuggy swap work at home as well this weekend and she remembered doing that too, which was cool. Maybe one day she’ll run flyball after all.