Morgan's Training

I went back to the cookie in my hand and Morgan did great. She is really getting better at the turns but both can use a lot more work. I am committed to completing the perch training we started MONTHS ago and that will help with bumping on the left turn and may work well for the right turn and about turn as well. We also are going to only work against a wall to help with the crabbing. I was told to fade the lure quickly and shorten the duration of the heeling. That I can do in the house. The training building is getting increasingly hot and once the humidity gets really going, it probably won't be possible to work in there at all. That means starting earlier and setting up a ring outside. I don't look forward to it :)

As far as agility is concerned, I have worked the A-frame grid a little but it is hard with a yapping dog in the next yard breaking Morgan's concentration. Amazingly, when I had food, that almost never happened :)

I have been intermittently working on the controlled unleashed stuff. I just need to get more organized about what I am doing in training. I feel so scattered. I KNOW intermittent doesn't work. I need to do it every day for it to stick. I used my shoulder as an excuse not to do much before, now I'm using the heat :)

One more day and Morgan isn't in season and I'm supposed to be siezing these precious moments to prepare her for her competition career. I REALLY need to get on the ball or I won't have a dog to show next year as well.