I went into today's training session with 2 goals.

1) Make it a positive training experience in a brand new place.

2) GET ON THE DOGWALK.

If you don't already know we've trained a running dogwalk, more or less :-) I have a verbal "get-in" command for offside tunnels and have done directional training only to that extent. I trained it a la Silvia Trkman and it took me about 10 months to get where we are (Miley was 8 months when we started.)

I've spent the last month driving all over creation trying to get on any and every dogwalk we can in the area. The one last time was HORRIBLE. Old, warped, bouncy. This one is okay, MAX 200 - thick with huge slats. We train on a relativly solid dogwalk with thin slats, none are rubberized, we are yet to get on a rubberized dogwalk.

You can see she went flying off the teeter. Funny, teeters seem to be hard for dogs with running contacts ;-) I have been playing with a stop on the dogwalk as well and have a really nice 2o2o behavior trained. Haven't asked for that behavior on a dogwalk besides on the very end, and I didn't really ask, she kind of assumed so I went with it.

Anyway. We had fun, she had fun, she was very focused. First dogwalk was NOT a good one, the rest were nice for my criteria.

We had great poles and nice jumping, just baby dog mistakes that I didn't make a big deal of, I was asking her for big dog stuff!