{"id":2975,"date":"2013-06-07T21:46:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2013-06-07T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T21:46:12","slug":"training-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=2975","title":{"rendered":"Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trekked up to County Durham again for some training. I really wanted to work with Dylan on his striding again, but he also really needed a down day after our busy weekend at Wigton and then a long walk on Monday. As we have a little houseguest in Alfie again for two weeks, I wanted Dyl to have his quiet day before Alfie arrived, and that really left only Tuesday. I&#8217;ll take you next time, Dylan!<\/p>\n<p>I have mixed feelings about Rio&#8217;s training, and it&#8217;s mostly about me, not Ri!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7lSrXuC_fXg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>She came out much more focused initially, when we worked on flyball. Her recalls were good! She&#8217;s striding nicely (a little short, but she hasn&#8217;t done full recalls for a long time) and she&#8217;s targeting her tug really nicely. She looks slow compared to the Whippets and Rave, but then I have realised today that most things look slow compared to the Whippets and Rave. When I watch just Rio&#8217;s recalls, she is faster than I thought, and I&#8217;m quite happy!<\/p>\n<p>I <em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em> very happy with her agility. She came back out and wasn&#8217;t as focused. Having sat in the car and watched the others work, she had gotten herself worked up and was basically in overload again. I should never add pressure in that situation. So what did I do? Asked her to tug with someone other than me, something I know she struggles with at the best of times. Cat suggested using food and we did a few drives to a food bowl, and she didn&#8217;t look bad, but I stopped the session.<\/p>\n<p>I feel a bit conflicted about this, four days later! Rio <em>was<\/em> learning, and Cat is a great teacher (so part of me just feels bad for stopping Cat from teaching us!). But I wasn&#8217;t happy and could feel myself getting upset and frustrated; I expect Rio to tug and play with me when she&#8217;s doing agility, and when she doesn&#8217;t, it&#8217;s a signal that she&#8217;s overloaded. I ignored that and compromised by using food, which she will work for even when distracted (although she&#8217;s still &#8216;fairyhead&#8217;). I didn&#8217;t formulate any of these thoughts at the time, by the way, all I knew was that I wasn&#8217;t comfortable and I didn&#8217;t want to carry on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/rio2.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-cpyZV4H8\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/rio2-300x200.png\" alt=\"rio2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2976\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got her out again a little later and asked Cat and Katie to sit at the other side of the field and let me work her by herself. I don&#8217;t know whether this was for me or her, but it worked, and she did some nice little bits of agility before she blew out again.<\/p>\n<p>I am not overly concerned about this happening in competition, although it might. Rio&#8217;s stress comes from over-excitement\/over-arousal which is mainly brought on by watching other dogs work. We&#8217;ve overcome this at our usual Tuesday training; she can stay focused the whole session, and is now getting to the point where I don&#8217;t need to be 100% focused on her during our down time. At a different venue, outdoors, where she can see the training involves dogs and people that she loves (including, all importantly, me and <em>not<\/em> her), she reaches a certain point and her brain switches off. This obviously won&#8217;t happen in competition!<\/p>\n<p>If she goes up to Durham again (which I&#8217;m sure she will!), I need a plan. It may be that she only gets one session and then gets some chill-out time instead of another working session. I&#8217;m not sure yet, but a plan we will have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trekked up to County Durham again for some training. I really wanted to work with Dylan on his striding again, but he also really needed a down day after our busy weekend at Wigton and then a long walk on Monday. As we have a little houseguest in Alfie again for two weeks, I wanted [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,15,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-flyball","category-rio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-LZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975"}],"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=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}