Class Yesterday and Training Today!

We had our class last night and Yoshi did really well! We worked on "learning the tire." (which he already knew, but it was great to reinforce the training to get him 100% on the obstacle) Next we started the channel method for the weave poles. It took Yoshi one try and then he learned to enter through the channel like a champ! The instructor said,"Wow! He learns fast!" LOL We then put the tire after the channel and had them go through both obstacles. The last thing was to work with bends in the tunnel (which hes already learned, but I wanted to work on more speedy entrances into the tunnel so I was excited to work more on the tunnel) Yoshi was very energetic and excited and listened well...so I am hoping at trials he will have that extra edge that will make him get through the course faster.

After class Yoshi got to play with his "girlfriend" Rainey a little bit.. shes a blue merle sheltie thats two weeks older than him.. they just LOVE each other. It is too cute. I got some videos of them running at each other and such. We didnt get a chance to turn them loose, but maybe next week.

Today we went to the Dogs Need A Job facility where the CPE event will be in June. It was a really nice place with two rings: beginner and then a standard course. I ran Yoshi in both rings and he did really well. First I went into the beginner ring and worked on the contact trainer to get him focused. Then we did some jumps and tunnels...he did fairly well..wasnt as fast as I would like but fairly steady. I tried to work with some crosses (front and rear) to get him used to them. When he got them down then he did really well, but he did have some confused moments too. We are getting there though! We then went to the standard ring...where he did the regulation height dogwalk! YAY for Yoshi...we had done a little lower than regulation and he did the regular height like a champ...I was so happy. We put together some little courses and he ran really well...but he tried to run to the table when he was near it and then would try to jump a jump instead of the tunnel...but all in all it was not bad considering we havent done much with courses yet.

I got some video of him running some of the course and when I go to my parents place I will get the videos together and post them asap!

I probably wont get to work with Yoshi too much this weekend because Dustin is racing his car both nights and tomorrow my dad has his truck entered in a show..and I am always the designated person to attend...lol. Monday Im going to a trial to watch...maybe I can see how different the speed is between Yoshi and the dogs entered the trial. That's all for now!