Very happy with Dylan’s agility training this week. We still have runs in competition where I have no idea what he’s thinking or why he’s acting the way he does, but that is a general Dyl-me problem, not an agility-specific problem. In terms of actual agility, it feels like we’re at our peak right now. I can’t retrain some of our bad habits (wide turns!) but we work with what we have and it’s good.<\/p>\n
Super confident dogwalks, just what I love to see. He sometimes stops just off the contact, but that’s my fault as I quick-release 80% of his contacts and I spent too much time when he was younger rewarding for “trying to stop”, so his criteria is a little vague. I wanted more independent contacts but I’m so used to managing Kim’s that it’s not too difficult for me. I want Rio’s to be more independent though, Dyl really struggles with dogwalks where I’m a long way behind him, and I don’t want that again.<\/p>\n
Flyball … hmm. We’re still not sure what our lineup for the Champs is going to be, which for me is frustrating. I hate feeling unprepared going into an event I care about! I’m confident that Dylan will be happy with whichever dogs are on his team, as the two reserves are both smooth coated, predictable, and non-scary in Dylan’s eyes. We should know what we’re doing by Saturday, although that leaves us with just one training session to go.<\/p>\n
Dylan is running really well at the moment however. There is always work to do on maintaining his turn but I’m happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Very happy with Dylan’s agility training this week. We still have runs in competition where I have no idea what he’s thinking or why he’s acting the way he does, but that is a general Dyl-me problem, not an agility-specific problem. In terms of actual agility, it feels like we’re at our peak right now. […]<\/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":[12,15,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan","category-flyball","category-training"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-F0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542"}],"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=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}