#I might be able to audit a young dog seminar

[wyrddogs]

Okay Kermit's agility issues were because he was hot. We're in the part of the year where the weather is wacky and we can jump twenty degrees in one week before dropping again.

It was much cooler this week and he was running and having a great time. He went right into the weaves (from an extremely difficult entry, no less!) then remembered he's having Weave Pole Issues and stopped. I clapped and told him what a great entry that was. He stared at me for a second then went through the weaves flawlessly and quickly. I fed him an entire meatball as a reward... which took him like two minutes to eat. XD

I was all apologizing for how slow my dog eats and my trainer and classmates were like no no he deserves that jackpot.

Zaku was introduced to his first off-course tunnels tonight and fucking rocked it. We were fully prepared to break the sequence down piece by piece but he called off the tunnel each time without issues. And when I did send him through he put on his afterburners. Super proud of him.

We did each sequence a couple of times and my trainer pointed out that our second attempts always went much smoother because I was confident we could do it. When I'm handling with confidence my dog is faster and follows me effortlessly. Definitely a learning curve because Zaku is much faster and takes much wider turns than Bindi or Kermit.

Also I remembered to front cross him rather than automatically doing blinds. Victory! XD