Felicity, Channel Weaves, Session 3

This is the 3rd & final session of her first day of being introduced to channel weaves. The 3 sessions were spread out over a span of the15 hours I was up at the training facility on this particular day. (I wasn't training MY dogs for 15hrs!! I had private lessons, classes, and other things I was doing in between little training sessions)

I wanted to point out, in case it isn't all that obvious, that I tend to leave the end of the poles wider than the rest, and the center the most narrow. The idea is that you make it a little harder for a few poles so that they have to really think, and then you widen them back up so as to keep them charging forward out of the weaves, not getting demotivated and slowing down towards the end.

Also, this is the first training session of the day where a fellow trainer was on the other side of the room working her dog on a running contact board. This caused Fil's attention to occasionally be split (as we were even using the same kind of ball as a reward), and consequently she missed some entries because her ears were in tune with the other side of the room. I kept training through this because she doesn't get the opportunity to train alongside other dogs all that often, and it's going to be paramount for her eventual success in the ring at a multiple ring show.

She is coming along very nicely with everything we are working on, and I'm super proud of her!
Once she starts actually WEAVing, and not just running through a mostly-open set of channels, we'll keep our reps/day way down, obviously, but I see no harm in having her do little sprints repeatedly since she's barely even wiggling until the end of the night.

First day of seeing channel weaves and they are already only about, what, 3" / 4" apart? Good Beans!!

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Pets & Animals

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• dog
• agility
• border
• collie
• Felicity
• weave
• pole
• clicker
• training

[fulltiltagility]

Lookin' GREAT! :-))

[EmilySnider]

Have you started any WP training?

[fulltiltagility]

Nope, not even going to start until spring most likely...got lots of other stuff to work on before then! When spring hits and I can be outside in my yard I can get them trained in about 2-3 weeks...so just easier than any here and there training I would be doing in the cold :(

[EmilySnider]

Hell, I feel ya! I mean, I waited until Fil' was 15mo, and yours are only like, what, 12mo? You still have ages!

Several folks that saw her at the practice jump and on the teeter after the show this weekend...asked me when she would be 18mo and would start trialing...no pressure, though!!

[fulltiltagility]

Yeppers, they are 13 months old and I am in NO hurry with 3 dogs trialing!!! :)

Mine won't be trialing at 18 months, I know that for a fact :)

[EmilySnider]

I have/had no plans to trial Fillie at 18mo, but the first real occasion I'll have to show her once she's old enough will be when she's nearly 19mo anyway (between a judging assignment, a cousin's wedding, etc). I didn't figure I'd trial her before 2yo, but she's really coming along MUCH faster than I anticipated. Ivie's going to be reserved for Jeff to run in P when he gets back. I'll probably aim to trial Cleatus a tiny bit just to keep him from getting ring-wise with his Daddy too early.

[EmilySnider]

But hopefully in a year or so Josie and Fillie will be my two serious trial dogs. Jeff will have Ivie and Cleatus. Look for them at Cynosport 2011!! ;-)

[Leevithedog]

cheater cheater pumpkin eater? :D

[PinayTiger]

wowowowowow shes such a speeie dog! I love watching her progress soooo much! She is an awesome girl!!

[CarolineGinty]

wow she is looking soooo fantastic Emily!!!! what a smart, fast, driven little girl! she is going to be an amazing weaver!