The End of a Year
The end of another year. How has it happened? No agility for me for almost three months. Horrors. Bea and I are using the time to work on proofing those contacts. She's always good in practice and I have such a hard time replicating the intensity of a trial but I think I found something. After the Desiree Snelleman seminar I bought myself a little cooler but instead of a reward dispensing mechanism it seems to work really well for proofing. The other day I put highly desireable smelly buffalo tripe in the cooler and showed it to Bea. I put it about three feet away from the bottom of the A-frame. Bea was vibrating and squeaking. I brought her over to the beginning of a short jump sequence before the A-frame. Even that required some serious concentration on her part because she had to turn away and all she wanted was that cooler. Off we went at an astounding speed - up and over the A-frame - and she just kept going. Wheeeeeeeeeee.
Photo by Joe Camp
No joy. Had to do that several times until she managed to engage brain and go into 2o2o contact behavior and then - oh joy, BUFFALO TRIPE. Good girl Bea. Self restraint yields big rewards.
Happy holidays everyone! May all your contacts be good ones, where ever they may be.