Brilliant few days

Well Obviously Rupert has now well and truely taken over our lives! and after a couple of sleepless nights his routine is starting to develop very nicely, I have played around with the clicker and he now has a lovely sit and down, but to be honest with such a greedy puppy the clicker could only be a successful training method! he has had quite a few visitors and is totally unfased by all the attention, even Maisy has now fallen under his spell.

Yesterday Amy and I took Maisy & Summer to Prestpury Park agility show, as this was not an open competition we had both decided to make good use of it and Train through our demons, Mine where those dreaded waits on the line and contacts, something we have been really working hard on at home and then totally messing up at a competition. I have been giving it some hard thought and found that at home I walk to the line off lead and give Maisy one firm command and walk away but in competition I was tending to get to the line, take her lead off, hold her collar and give her several commande facing her as I leave all the time inside panicking that she was going to break, and of course thats what she did, so yesterday I did it like I do at home and had 3 out of 4 perfect starts, the only time she broke was in the Tunnel Maze!! but I just put her back on the line and the second time she stayed. we also managed some great fast contacts so the training is really starting to pay off and I can't wait to get back into the season. Amy and Summer had a really good day, Amy put some of her new techniques into practice which seem to be working well, she only needs to commit to the last few obstacles as they both tail off towards the finish resulting in a refusal, however they had a really fast flowing clear in the jumping and those weaves are looking fabby!

We did have a little Drama, Amy had left her jacket on the fence while she ran Summer and unfortunately someone mistook it for theirs and left the venue with it! we now had the dilema of Maisy being locked in the car but luckily the lady in question realised her mistake and brought them back fairly quickly, but it was quite a shock and a huge lesson to be learnt. But a big THANK YOU to everyone at Prestpury Park who helped us look for it and kept Amy calm, you're efforts where really appreciated.