Rio attended her first Foundation Agility Skills class yesterday!<\/p>\n
She has been through a puppy-tunnel a few times, but has never seen the proper heavy duty pipe tunnel. She thought it was pretty easy though! We did a few recalls through a straight tunnel with lots of tugging, and then did some tunnel, wrap around a pole, and back into the tunnel. I was way too nervous and messed up a few times though! The exercise included equipment but was actually nothing she hasn’t done before, (a recall and then a turn around a pole to a toy).<\/p>\n
The class is 30mins long and she was losing her ability to concentrate by the end; she tried very hard, held her wait, but she wasn’t focussing on what was happening so I just rewarded her wait and called it a night. I fully expected this and was actually surprised she lasted as long as she did!<\/p>\n
I’m mostly pleased with how focused she was. When we were working she was concentrating on the job in hand, and nothing else. During our downtime whilst the other dogs worked, I tried to make sure she got the opportunity to say hi to everyone in the class (it’s a tiny class, just four dogs). She was polite and when she indicated she was done saying hi, we moved away. I tried to make sure she for the opportunity to sit and watched the other dogs working but she was more interested in engaging with me since I had kibble. Apparently if you have an early tea it doesn’t even count as tea, and she was starving, don’t you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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