Macy competed in Open JWW's for the first time this weekend. Saturday she had 5 refusals and one crashed jump and Sunday she had 2 refusals and a crashed jump. In fact, she also crashed a jump in Standard on Saturday and wouldn't down, but I didn't blame her much on the down. It was cold.<\/p>\n
Though the response I've gotten on the crashed jumps were — Macy, crash a jump? Yeah, she never does in class, but here's what she was doing:<\/p>\n
Head down, sniffing the dirt, but going the same direction. Hey, there's the jump, whoops took off to late and "crash". In fact, that's how we got the refusals.<\/p>\n
Sunday I figured out that if I talked to her incessantly, she did better and put her head up, which is why jumpers results were better.<\/p>\n
Standard was better on Sunday too, I scooped her up and went to the car and didn't bother to check scores, but she did everything and looked good up until and after the teeter. She went up it, but couldn't bring herself to go all the way.<\/p>\n
Both days, afterwards, we went over to Dog City Training Center to fix things. They do a facility rental for students at $8.00 and I'm taking more and more advantage of that. They had a fun match on Saturday so they left the course up for me and I used it after. That was great, and we're doing a lot of work on the table. At home too.<\/p>\n
By the way, there is a nice looking little beagle up in Utah that might make someone a good agility dog, say something in the comments if you want to know more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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