Swimming

Morgan hasn't been up to a lot since I last wrote. Most of my training was cancelled because I was so immersed in work, I didn't get to train the way I want to. We did do weave poles on Monday. We were in a different room and I opened up the poles so that she would be successful. When she was, I quickly closed the poles back up. At first I closed them too much and she was having a difficult time. Then I got it just right and she had a couple of very successful entries. I still haven't been able to get the poles straight up. She pops out after the first two poles or she will do the first four poles and skip the last two. It's hard to figure out what I am doing wrong. Maybe it is time to go back and look at the video :)

Friday, I was very pleased with her heeling. I used the technique we did in Pen's class (run away if she looks away) worked like a charm. She thinks heeling is fun now. I think I will have to mix it us a lot more to keep this girl interested. We will start doing more proofing next week.

Today, I was most proud of her. She would not go into the water and the water was too icky for me to wade in. I was about to be bummed. Then one of the women who is training her puppy had him retrieving a duck and Morgan was very interested. I didn't think she would retrieve it because she has left ducks in the water before. However, we had the added dimension of a cute little puppy retrieving right before her eyes. Yep, she started going in. After she returned with the duck, we would throw it back out and she would whine about the duck being out there and eventually, she would go out to it. The last couple of times, she actually swam to the duck. I was so proud. YAY! She may be a duck dog yet.