Okay, Okay! Finally a new post!

Let's see . . . since my last post . . . we had a trial the end of February that didn't go well, so we won't talk about it. I went to the Susan Salo jumping seminar in Council Bluffs, IA, which was GREAT! On Saturday, Rush spit the ball out for a frisbee (YAY!!) and on Sunday Chris and Angie ran Raven and Cherish for me at agility. Chris had two decent 'practice' runs with Raven. The plus side is that she ran for him and din't leave the ring to come look for me, the downside is that she didn't stay in the weaves on either run. Cherish however, had perfect weaves and qualified in both runs along with first place finishes.

When I came home tonight I went out and put a second set of six poles at 12' away from the first set. I went back to the 2x2 book and followed it. I'm going to work both Cherish and Raven, hoping that it will help Raven learn to stay in and complete them no matter how many there are. I started between the two sets and rewarded at the end of the second set, making sure that I sent from both my left and right side. Then we sent from the beginning and rewarded between the two sets. Raven was not as consistent here and we had to do it a couple of times. For the last step I tried sending her from the beginning all the way through. The first time I was late telling her 'weave' again to go into the second set and she missed them. Then when we tried again she kept blowing by the first set so we went back and rewarded a couple more times between the two sets. Once she did both sets successfully we had a big reward.

I repeated the same steps with Cherish and she never missed. If the weather were to cooperate and hold off the rain that they are calling for, I really think she might be weaving 12 by Sunday. If I could get myself up an extra half hour earlier, I could get a session in in the morning before work and another at night. Yeah, we'll see how that works out for me.