Morgan's Training

Okay, so I haven't been much better. Just wanted to post about Morgan's performance in Pre-Novice at the poodle club specialty. She actually did a lot better 1.5 years ago than she did on Thursday. It was dismal. How dismal was it you ask? She got a 97 out of 200, that's how dismal. She acted as if I weren't even in the ring most of the time. All she could do was look out of the ring to see what everyone else was doing. Needless to say we need a LOT of help on focus and attention. I think if I had been able to focus her, she would have done a decent job heeling.

My new goals for her, since I never made any progress on the old ones, are to get her ready to show in Novice (probably Wild Card) by our May trial and for agility by our Poodle club trial in June. With these goals in mind, I need to do some SERIOUS training. I'm going to continue to train Merlin but will start with the UKC utility exercises because I will try to get his UKC-UD and if his eyesight and brains hold out, maybe a UKC UDX just because he can jump at the veteran's height in UKC. His training, however, will be much reduced and Morgan's, much increased. Sooo, I shall be blogging quite a bit more on her. That said, I need to go to bed early tonight so I can start bright and early in the morning implementing my plans.