Thursday and Friday

Thursday July 27^th

Today Jinks and Dunn bumbled around the hill for a little under an hour. Beside the occasional recall they were left to their own devices and ran, sniffed and peed on things to their hearts content. 

Pip -20 minutes

I ran Pip through a similar weave entry exercise as yesterday, getting speed into poles, speed out of poles, tighter entrances and needing to really look for his entrance. We did long through (20+ yards) discs as reward, to stretch out our session and get some more exercise in to boot. We also worked both left and right side entrances and started to layer a small bit of handler movement into both sides. The faster I go the more he stops thinking about his job and turns it into a race, so it will be a gradual layering.

Shane -15 minutes

Shane did the same exercise as Pip with weaves. He was hitting both right and left entries tonight, weaves with quite some handler distances, weaves as a discrimination against a “go” (aka, go straight and fast). I am going to pull the tunnel out sometime soon and start doing tunnel into weaves. I also need to bite the bullet and buy a second set of six poles to add to mine.

Exercise:
Jinks/Dunn: 45 minutes

Training:

Pip -20
Shane -20

Handler Time Investment: 1 hour 25 minutes.

Friday July 28^th

Took everybody swimming for about 45 minutes. We had a poodle and Pig Dog join us. No dogs drowned. No training today.

Exercise time: 45 Min

Handler Time Investment: 45 minutes.