Mel Blacke
Well-Known Member
So we went to the kennel club this morning to work on stuff for the next trial which is coming up in October. I like to go on Sunday because it is a medium distraction environment with fewer people. Mostly it is agility people working on their stuff so we use the open ring. Fi did pretty well at her marching behavior that we have been working on--she wasn't always in perfect position but we can refine that later. I actually did get the behavior from her without any toys or treats for about 20 feet where she gets rewarded outside the ring after she demonstrates the behaviors so I was quite pleased. So while it is not enough yet, it is definitely something to build on. Our efforts at training in the park---preferably while there are baseball games going on or lots of people and other dogs and cars around has paid off big time. Then we went to the lake where she had a good long run off lead, we then played and played and when she was really hot we did water retrieves and then got out and strolled around the park and went back for another set of retrieves. We did this 3 or 4 times. Rinse and repeat. The spaniel was quite tired from her big day. I think I finally found the bottom of this little lady's seeming boundless energy reserves. She was asleep in the car on the way home. She was also uncharacteristically quiet all evening long.