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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

How Would You Handle This?

I thought of a lot of titles for this post - 'Everyone Loves A Car Crash',  'Rubberneck Paradise', 'Rough Agility Night', ect. ect. ect.  I think you get the idea :)

There were many, many good things and a few tiny little problems. 

Take a look at the course below (please!) and tell me how you would handle it.  How you would handle it with your dog and also with a dog like Tibby.  Or just with your dog, if you don't know us that well :)
  You'll probably have to click and make it bigger.  It was my first time drawing a course, so it's not exactly drawn to scale. 
(see all the little people and dogs at the bottom? Hmm, how about that?)

Here were the problems I ran into: 
1 - Tibby is waaaaay too fast out of the tunnel for me to beat her for some kind of cross.  Sure if I had a solid go on cue or what ever people train for this situation.
2 - The tire is suddenly SO TEMPTING!!  After ignoring it and going around it....now we like it???  I missed the memo.  Not complaining!  It's great!  Just saying....
3 - Jumping straight into a crowd of dogs and people.  DOGS!! and people.  Especially when said NEW DOG (joy! happiness!) comes in the door at the exact moment that Tibby is jumping straight at the crowd of dogs.  ooooopsy!

Things that I thought were great:
1 - Tibby was speedy!
2 - She was having FUN!
3- She did the tire + offered the weave poles (which didn't make it onto the video - boo) and then did the tunnel for fun.  For FUN?!?!  Yeah!
4- I thought our turn at 5 wasn't too bad.  I was saying tic - not sure if that helped her turn better or if she was just following my body language.

Of course, after 5 it all goes down hill.....:)




Watch the video and then tell me - Does that look like a stressed dog?  After we got done Fay told me that Tibby's zoomies were because she was feeling stressed.  First of all - that was not a complete zoomie.  Yeah it was slightly embarrassing or whatever, but she finished the course (eventually) and she wasn't totally wild.  Second of all - in my opinion she doesn't look stressed.  She looks like she found something more rewarding then me (and my meatballs).