I'm just getting worse at this aren't I?................Here is what we've been up to!I've started swimming Ronnie as well as Kiros and he's loving it. I'm so surprised how well he's doing as I thought it would really worry him. He was a bit uncoordinated at first but has now worked out that he can swim with his front and back legs at the same time! It is the highlight of his week.
Kiros has only had one competition since my last posting which was Nuts on Sunday. I could only do two runs with him as I was judging in the afternoon. I'm kicking myself for the mistakes I made. We were eliminated in the Agility as I let him run his A-frame then didn't have time to command which tunnel enterance I wanted him to take. In the jumping we had one pole down but still managed 4th place with the fastest time by over 4.5 seconds! Ann ran him in my TFO Agility and (much to my surprise) he missed the Dog Walk contact. At least that's this years missed contact out of the way!
Reno and I have done a lot since my last blog entry.
He was entered in an other Breed Show the weekend after and he was even worse that at Midlands Counties. Not only would he not let the Judge go over him but he barked at her. As I'm struggling to know what more I could have done to stop him being like this I've decided to take him to Ringcraft classes. So far we've been to one which was a bit manic! There were Kids running around all over the place that really spooked him but at least people got to see what he could be like rather then seeing the confident, sociable puppy that he is 90% of the time. We've got another class tonight so hopefully he'll be a bit more used to it?
Now he's 12 months old I've started his Agility training and have managed quite a few sessions at Paul and Pen's Paddock. So far we've worked on recalls and send aways over jumps and through tunnels which are working well if he has a toy or treat at the end. We've also started on the basics of front and rear crosses. I'm really pleased at how well he is reading my body language already. The foundation work that I've done with him is paying off.
We've started on channel weave but can't get them much closer then 6" without him comming out. I really need to practice these more often.
I'm looking forward to his training on Thurday and also the Crate Games session that we're doing at Jo's on Monday.
We're off to Wilmslow on Saturday. Our last KC show of the year. It's going to be fun!!!
