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Okay so first of all, unscramble this: TOCSANTC

CONTACTS!! Amy's 2o2o Aframe and her quick-release Dogwalk are coming along quite nicely for her. And of course Tarra's epic running Dogwalk is going great. :) Honestly I never thought we'd get to this point, after an entire year of RCs! Now just to start working on turns...

So yeah, I'm purdy happy with her progress.

Next is her running Aframe. She never misses her contact, but it's not at full height. I think tomorrow I'll raise it and see how it goes, she's very confident on her AF so I don't think it'll be a problem. My criteria for the AF is different then the DW, though:

Dogwalk - Run full out through the entire dogwalk and drive forward.
Aframe - Stride however you like, but must end in a low hit, whether back feet are seperated or together.

I've also come to the conclusion that 1 NADAC trial a year just ain't right! So looks like we're gonna have to get into some AKC, which means..... the TEETER. ugh.

Until then we'll stick with JWW. :)

Speaking of AKC, we have an upcoming Fun match. My goal was to have her running DW and AF under control, which looks like that will be possible! Then I'll see how she does with a competition dogwalk at the fun match. She refuses it? Ok, we'll have to work on other DWs if we want to do Touch N Go at our trial in 2 months. :)

That's it for now! :D

Sorry the fun match was 5 days ago and my computer was being evil. 0.o

Anyways, we got there as they were finishing up JWW, eek! The jumps were at 12" and they were working there way down, so we just ran at 12". No warm-up, had to rush her into the ring and just go! I brought out her new Kong wubba toy, which she had absolutely no interest in, even though she normally loves them. She was stressed. JWW actually went pretty well, we didn't do weaves since I didn't have a walk though.

She pretty much sniffed her way through the course but she was running with me so it was okay. I lost her right after a tunnel but regained her focus fairly quick. :) We finished the run on a good note.

I still had 1 more ticket left and the JWW ring was closed, so we made up a course in STD. It was: tunnel, 12 weaves, panel jump, jump, tunnel, loop back around and do 6 weaves then the tunnel, 12 weaves again, and ending with 2 jumps.
She's NEVER seen competition weaves, and I could tell she felt a little akward. She found something extra smelly in the middle of the weaves and stopped to smell it, lol. I regained her focus and we finished the 12 weaves, as she walked through them. XD

When we looped back around to do the 6 weaves, she got the entry and sped up, when we went to the 12 weaves again, she was sooo much faster! I think it just took her a minute to get used to these crazy poles! ;P

This was all in ONE run, and I had no reward with me, she's never done so many sets of poles in 1 course, so I was super happy! She ended that course perfectly as well!

I brought out 4 of her new toys, the ones I know she likes, and she was too stressed to tug. But after our runs I brought out my last toy, I tiny little no-stuffing baby chick toy with a squeaker. She went NUTS and was working the warm up jump and tugging like a pro, complete focus and that happy stress-free face I love seeing.

I am such an idiot for doubting that toy and not bringing it out for our runs! UGH!

Overall it was very successful and I plan to finish up our DW Running Contacts and AF before our next fun match in a month, then we'll have another month before our trial. :)

Here's the link to our fun match vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nsWWOjLTus

Thanks for reading! :D

She is crazy. Actually, all of the Pups are crazy. Now they are even crazier because we switched their food to Natural Life, they love it! Anyways, Tarra's focus has improved alot since the run thrus, she also seems to trust me more now, not sure if it's because of the run thrus or not. And I'm working on Amy's Aframe 2o2o, pretty proud of her for having like no official 2o2o work! Halli.... Idk even know what we're doing right now besides Crate Training LOL Also they're mostly on break since Tarra's fun match is coming up and they're all getting a few days off. :) I paid for 2 JWW runs for the fun match. I'm really hoping she doesn't sniff and I can keep her under control, but I think we'll be able to do a warm up this time so hopefully we can work on the sniffing during the warm-ups. That's it for now, I'll post again about the fun match! :D