{"id":2231,"date":"2012-02-01T21:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2012-02-01T21:53:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:53:04","slug":"puppy-jumping-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Jumping Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I feel kind of nervous starting jump work with Rio, I had the no-agility-til-12months thing drilled into me from the moment I started 10 years ago. When Dylan was a puppy it was very much still the accepted wisdom, but now it’s ok. I agree that it’s ok, but it’s still weird.<\/p>\n

Since Rio has never even seen an agility jump, I set up the jump outside with the bar on Micro (that’s about 6″ high) and then we did some clicker training around and about, with rewards for interacting with the jump. She offered a few hops over the pole, then demolished it by falling over the pole, and then demolished it again by whacking one of the wings with her paw. We did a few recalls over the jump bump in between the wings just for fun.<\/p>\n

We then did 5 reps with the bar on Micro and the jump bump in front as a V-bounce type set up. I wasn’t sure how Rio would do but she was great, she noticably improved between the first and the last in figuring out where to power from, and getting a much nice shape over the pole. In so much as that’s possible with a 5 month old puppy over a tiny jump!<\/p>\n

I probably won’t do anything again until the weekend with her, but I really want to start cik\/cap work (or kip work, because that’s the word I use!) with her too this week. I’ve been putting it off because I need a stick-in-the-ground pole to begin with and I don’t have one, but I think I’ve found something that will work. I also want to start our flyball chute work this month as well, but I think I might end up pushing that back until March. We start our Foundation Agility class at the end of February and there is only so much time to spend doing big training type things when I’m still trying to do lots of socialisation too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel kind of nervous starting jump work with Rio, I had the no-agility-til-12months thing drilled into me from the moment I started 10 years ago. When Dylan was a puppy it was very much still the accepted wisdom, but now it’s ok. I agree that it’s ok, but it’s still weird. Since Rio has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-rio","category-training"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-zZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}