Le Hoop

Well over the past few shows Maisy's contacts have been getting worse and worse, last weekend I saw her leaping from the top section of the dogwalk in her eagerness to get to the next obstacle! so obviously this cannot continue, not only is it very embarrassing for me but it can't be good for her either... So having read over and over again sections in Dawn Weavers book I asked Steve to make me a device which we now call Le Hoop, it's actually a very smart piece of kit which we used in training last night, first of all we got all the dogs running through Le hoop on it's own getting them to run on independently either using a treat or a toy and then we tried it at the end of the see saw, the results were instant, we have one young dog who really hasn't gained her confidence on the see saw but after training with Le hoop suddenly seems to have found her mojo, so I can't wait to start Maisy training it, hopefully it will enable her to do running contacts so she doesn't find the hotspots too distracting. Rupert had a great training session last night too, there's more on his blog re this.