Pre Agiity and D

Well this post is just for BabyD. He is such a sweet pup and is thrving most of the time.

We attended our first Pre Agility class last Saturday and he did some great bits. We started really well with play and some waits. But there was some real lunging, barking dogs and it worried him, by the end of the session he had started to suffer a bit and just couldnt engage his brain to perform some of his newly learnt behaviours. However he still tugged well and stayed focused on me so I came away with positives.

This week I have been working on quite a bit. Firstly one of Ds extra stresses at Pre Agility was being taken on and off lead. For some reason he has developed a worry about it and I think it was mostly to do with trying to teach him to accept a halti, I probably rushed some bits with him which just made him paranoid and the fear has transferred to leads. He is ok once it is on and will play with his lead fine. I have been doing lots of collar grab games and lead on/ off etc. He is improving but still shys away now and again. I have also been trying him on a wobble board. I have used them before but this is the a human one and just 50cm diameter so he is having to work a lot harder to get all four feet on and stay on! Finally playing lots of 123 game and trying to tease hm out of his waits ;-)

One week to improve... lets see how it goes!