progressing on

I split the class into 4 last week and did one segment including weaves and a curved tunnel, another with just the dog walk and another 2 with just jumps in a up pivot and back configuration. It worked well because the dogs are all OK with each other, though some are a bit too sociable.

This week I split into 2 and it went OK. Simple up and down set ups, one with tyre, weaves and a curved tunnel, the other with the baby dog walk and a wall. The dogs are not bothered by the equipment and got on well again. There is a new dog with a bit of a thing about b&w collies, but you don't see many of them in agility :).

Hopefully I will start building more full courses and giving more 121 attention as people work their dogs. That way the distracted ones will be OK. As per usual some of the dogs are getting more distracted as they gain confidence and start to predict getting excited by others running. They will hopefully learn to calm a bit.

Another problem people are getting is that their dogs are focusing one jump at a time and trying to return to the handler between. So far solved by squeezing the jumps closer. I will try to find info on exercises to solve this for next week.

All in all they are all nice dogs, and the owners are all interested. Some perhaps want to go faster, but there are limits to how quick you can teach agility safely especially in groups.