I should probably just have abandoned today’s session. Overall Boss was not really into it, and I couldn’t seem to salvage it.

Thank you. We’re not sure. We think he must have eaten something toxic in the garden, possibly a Sago palm pod. It’s the same garden he played in all his life. The Sago palms had finished dropping berries weeks ago, but the birds bring in pods, seeds and other random stuff and drop them on the ground.

As with Ice, Boss and I have done a couple more sessions on weave entries and sits. I think I see improvement 🙂

The girls have moved to the other end of the house and Ice seemed eager to work when I was training Boss. I thought we’d give weave entries a try in familiar surroundings. Looking at the video, I think the session was a bit too long, but I kept going because he seemed to be figuring things out.

We tried a sit stay, but I had the same problem as with Boss. Every time I moved my hand, Ice popped up.

So today was not Ice’s best day….maybe because there are 2 bitches due to come into season? I’m not sure.

Initially we tried the weaves with the orange balls he loved previously….not much interest. We then ran a couple of short jump-tunnel sequences with a tug toy and he did great. Since the tug appeared to be the toy of choice we tried it in the weaves – awkward, but at least he engaged. I then tried a different type of ball. It was a bit more successful than the orange balls, but not great.

We finished off with some sits. Ice was still distracted but he was trying 🙂

Thank you, Polona!!

I’m so pleased to see Lyric happy to play agility…….and even happy to wait at the start line with anticipation. 😀 For the last few months both Lyric and I were getting pretty discouraged with training. It seemed the harder we tried, the less motivation Lyric had. Thank you so much for your help!

I can’t say that Lyric dislikes any obstacles. We could certainly work on staying in the weaves. It’s not that she doesn’t like weaves – sometimes she’s just in a hurry to move on.

At the end of the last UKI trial we ran under Manca, she commented that most of our “E”s were on slices. One course in particular had a line of serps/threadles after a tunnel – we were not very successful! I’d like to work on serps/threadles/pushes, particularly where Lyric has an extra speedy approach.

Another problem that came up from time to time was ignoring cues. I’m not referring to my frequently late or absent cues, but to the times I was actually there in plenty of time cuing a turn…….only to have Lyric say “no, I see you, but I’m taking the off-course tunnel first.” 🙂

Today we played a bit more with start lines and ran the last of the short sequences. Lyric really enjoys these. I didn’t cue the left turn out of the tunnel correctly, but Lyric did a great job 🙂

Yes, definitely, we need to work entries! I wasn’t exactly sure how to use the food bowls in the setup you showed. Am I dropping a treat into the bowl for each correct entry? Because I wasn’t exactly sure (sorry!) I tried shaping the entry but tossing treats.

We also did a little more work on sits. Boss actually offered a few sits 🙂

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