Training Update - July 24

Bungee & Guinness, ready to work.




First I'd like to take this time to CONGRATULATE our dear friend, instructor & coach Sarah Mairs-Heaslip & her Border Collie "Jiggy", on their excellent runs & great success at this past weekend's Canada Cup! Congratulations also to Jessica Martin. Susan had to leave so Jessie ran Susan's dogs and her own in the final (money) round to 1st place. Nice job Jessie!! Video soon!!!

Training this week has gone absolutely brilliant with Bungee and Guinness. It has rained almost constantly the last week and frequent electric storms. It's so wet, we're about to grow web feet up here. Guinness even slid off the teeter twice in class the other night - a first for him. Bungee's obedience in class this week was very good, attention was offered in abundance, we started left turns and "Finish", (returning to heel). In agility, her improvement continued on contacts and I'm really happy with the success, but we're deserving if I do say so myself as we've been working diligently on them. Handling in general is very promising, turns are tight & understanding is very nice. We're also working on driving ahead solely off the pressure of my forward motion and doing a lot more work on "pressure" & motion with Bungee than we have with previous dogs. No tricks this week but we started her poles. Grids are included once or twice a week, one-stride grid work excellent, added her 1st spread tonight with the highest bar @ 16 in. at ~ 17 ft. distance. Lots of video & video stacking up in the DH's "to do" list, especially after Canada Cup. Finger's crossed for this weekend.

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