Morgan's Training

We made it to the building at 7:03 this morning and I started searching my training bag for a prong collar. I started both Merlin and Nimue on training collars very early. Nimue at 7 months and Merlin as 22 months (when his show clip was shaved down). Morgan is 5 years old and I want to tell you, she was none too happy about that collar. She looked very resentful and didn't want to move. The weirdest thing was she couldn't make herself sit straight on her front. Too funny. I'm sure she will get used to it. I use the prong collar as a self correcting tool. If she pulls on it she feels it, if she doesn't pull, everything is honky dory.



Anyway, we worked on fronts and heeling. I see that I have to get that focal point going a little better because it is what killed me at the trial last week. Well, one of the things. I realize that I am taking Morgan way too fast for everything. It is so hard not to do this when I am so eager to get her in the ring and she has so much to learn.



Last night, one of the things that I did to slow myself down was to reconfigure my goals. My new goals for Morgan are to debut her in Obedience at the Lumberton trials in April and hope to finish a pre-novice title at home at GCOC. I will show her in obedience until June and then start to show her in agility. She will make her agility debut in June at the poodle club trials. Those are our goals. Now I just have to make some solid lesson plans to get us there.