DogBlog!

Stamp and Fleet were pretty tired after the weekend -





Boing! on the other hand, spent Monday catching up on cat wrestling



Pistachio was thrilled to have her back and would not leave her alone





I didn't do any work with any of them until today, although I did feel guilty about it because I was supposed to be working on weave entries with Boing! before tomorrow's class. Made up for it today, though, because there was no traffic and we got to K9 two and a half hours before my first class, which gave me plenty of time to work with Boing!, Stamp and Fleet. Celine is busy with orientation, so she couldn't go out, but she will be able to go out and train on Friday.


With ground bars in place, Fleet was able to keep the jumps up even though he was driving really fast.



Boing!s dogwalk speed is improving, although she's still not where I'd like her to be with it. On occasion she does some blazing fast ones and manages to nail the contact, but usually she's more deliberate. I'll feel more comfortable about her performance when her times are less erratic. At least now she's ALWAYS faster than Stamp...



I think I marked this video up too much. I was working on getting her to wrap tightly, increasing my distance so my hand wasn't right over the bar, but still trying to get her to both clear the left side of the bar rather than the center, and land to the left rather than more of a slice. The first try, when I have my hand over the bar, she's good, then she does some less than spectacular ones, although mostly staying to the left of the bar on take off, she lands too far to the right, then she does one where she hits my leg, and finally a good one with me close to the bar, but not quite having my hand over it. I am still bending too much, although I'm pretty sure it's more related to my back injury than anything else. I have to work on posture more...