New Program New Instructor-kinda

Well, I began to fulfill one of my new year's resolutions. That is that Morgan and I had our first agility lesson last week. Yippee! We started everything over from scratch. We won't be doing most of that stuff we've been practicing for the past five weeks but I think that those weeks were worthwhile because it got Morgan to work with me. Today she even gave up trying to get the cat.

Now we are doing 2X2 weave poles. Since we are only working with 2 poles to begin with, she said it is okay to do it with my stick in the ground weave poles. I think this might just be fun for Ms. M.

In jumping we are doing the jump chute but with me standing to the side of the last jump. This worked great at the building but I must have been doing something wrong today because Morgan kept knocking the last jump. I'm not supposed to jump her tomorrow but I want to try one more thing before I give up. Only a couple of jumps in the afternoon.

We are also going to learn running A-frame contacts. It is something she likes to teach and it is something that I wanted to do with my standard poodle. I just think the 2o2o position is too hard on their bodies as long legged as standard poodles are. Anyway, we ARE doing 2020 for the dog walk. Meagan's idea is that you get a little extra time to catch up on the A-frame but not so much on the dog walk. You end up running along side the dog on the dogwalk and they can definitely beat you to the end. She has this cool box that Morgan is supposed to pounce into.

I haven't had any time to practice since our lesson. On Friday I had work stuff to do and then there was the trial set-up and Saturday and Sunday was the obedience trial of which I am chair. So no time for agility. Morgan didn't even go to the obedience trial because she hadn't been groomed and I didn't want to embarrass us :-)

I'm hoping to work a little with her tomorrow and Wednesday so we won't be total screw ups for our lesson on Thursday.

Kathy