Dylan's Blog: Training Update

Just a quick update on Dylan’s blog. It’s been an immensely stressful and exhausting beginning to the month, and all the dogs have had to take a back seat. However, Dylan and I managed to find a half hour to do some training in today, and we had a lovely session.

I didn’t have any particular goals, just proofing what we already know. Started off with some cavaletti spaced 4ft/6ft, then 4ft/8ft, and then 6ft/4ft, and finally 6ft/2ft, with the final jump being double the hieght. Makes him think about his paws and his jumping technique!

Spent the rest of the time doing jump/tunnel/jump combinations, with a few left/right tunnel entrances thrown in. I’m really pleased with how responsive Dylan is – he will happily run on to a tunnel with me hanging far back, but equally he isn’t completely tunnel obsessed and will pull off the obstacle if I ask him to (although I don’t do that very often, I do want to encourage him to work on ahead still). Kim isn’t a big tunnel fan and I always have to run right up to tunnels with her, so it’s nice to have a dog who doesn’t mind so much.

I’m still hoping to steal borrow K’s weaves over the Christmas holidays and get those weaves completely proofed and solid before January. Hopefully we’ll find a spare minute to nip over to Wakefield and try that see-saw a couple more times before the competition too, although I am feeling a bit more confident about that now.