First agility training of the year

I bought several DVD's as a Christmas present to myself and Morgan. One is Dream Weaves with Ann Croft and the other is a 4-DVD set on jumping with Susan Salo. Morgan and I had our first agility training session of the year so I could try out what I learned.

We had been doing our weave backwards -- at least according to the Ann Croft DVD. We should teach the dog to drive from the last pole to the toy or treat and back up from there. Morgan was amazing. She just got faster and faster and didn't pop out of the poles once. We are going to have to move them closer and closer very quickly. These are the channel weaves. Croft next wants us to go to the weavomatic with the slanted poles. Those are hard to do with our stick in the ground weave poles but for now, we will work on just the channel weaves.

On the jumping, according to Susan Salo's program, we had skipped the first step which is to help the dog figure out its footing. So we went to two jumps, the first with practically no height at all and the second with just 16 inches. I think we had the jumps a little too far apart because Morgan was taking an extra step. I will probably move the jumps close together when we practice in our own back yard tomorrow.

Morgan is doing okay on the teeter training but we have GOT to start the 2o2o training. She is all over the little travel board and really does not understand it. I need to hurry up and fix mine (tomorrow's project) and start training on it.

I am very happy with her progress and because we have switched to doing only two repetitions of any exercise, she is more engaged and happy and doesn't turn off. Worked like a charm. We just did circuit training --did two reps on each exercise moved on to the next. After we went through everything, we started from the beginning and repeated each one with two reps. Done. Happy Happy poodle and we go home.

Tom has been very patient with Morgan as we all try to figure this stuff out.