Well this is an unlucky show for me as we never seem to do well! Today wasn't too bad though. The extra training ive put in the last few weeks really seems to have helped, Although it took Toni to kick my butt and make me sort out Campbells contacts. Ive been really strict and have started working with the clicker to really give him a marker he understands when he gets into the 2o2o position as before i have let him get away with pretty much doing what he wants and have ended up with quite a few missed contacts where we shouldn't have had them. Also i have been really working on his weaves and entries especially on the right and and he was fantastic today and did two sets of right hand weaves and didn't come out early.
In the starters jumping we got 5R for missing the second weave entry, Starters agility went really well but he took a pole down when i told him to go left. I really must work on this more as he keeps taking poles if i say anything before his back legs have cleared the pole. Open agility (grade 1 - 7) was a nice flowing course with not too much handling required and Campbell really went for it and was clear. But we were 10 seconds behind the winning dog and 1 second outside the placings so he really will need to improve his speed if we want to get anywhere this year. Hopefully with the lighter evenings i can get him out more and get his fitness back to the level it was at last summer. Open jumping was going well and all the bits i was worried about were out of the way then Campbell went and did something odd that i didn't expect him to do so i ended up calling him back over a jump and we got E'd!
Chico finally got to have a play too as he was entered in the run for fun class now that hes 16 months. He was a little superstar and really listened right up to the last jump which he ran past! Typical. He is obviously still very much a baby and wasn't going as fast as he does in training and kept checking to make sure he was going the right way but i think he has some good times ahead and he loved every minute of it. I still cant believe i have had him for over a year as it seems like just yesterday i got him.
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