GETTING FIT!

It has become apparent that if I've got any chance of running two dogs next season I'm going to have to get fit! this week I have really had some breakthroughs on the training front, it's a shame the dark nights are here as I could really do with a few more training hours in the week.
I'll start with Rupert - I introduced the dog walk to him at quite an early age, let him trot over it on low height and shaped the end, then I left it for a few months but when I went back to it he had obviously grown so much in confidence that he just raced over it (reminding me of Maisy AAARRRGGGHHHH) so I took him back to the beginning, I really wanted him to think of the dog walk only as the end position, I don't want to have to give him a command to stop, but be confident when I look back at him he will be two on two off. so over the past few sessions i have just played around with the end position, then on Saturday morning I let him run the whole thing, at first I would look back and he would be standing with all four feet on the contact so I just waited and he corrected himself to get his click. After only a couple of attempts he was racing into the correct position without any help at all, so far I have only run straight past him, but next week I'm going to move out to the side and add some a jump and a tunnel at the end, this should really test his position.
At Jo's yesterday we put the jumps up a little bit, at first he ran under them, but with a little bit of tweaking he was soon jumping them nicely and ended up doing a sequence of 15.
Maisy - Thursday night was contacts at Chippy, and I have to say Maisy and I seemed to start off really well, but we lost it right at the end, I think we were both just a bit tired, yesterday at Jo's she was brilliant, after her initial mad moment, she settled down and I felt we really made some progress.
Summer - Amy and Summer had their 2nd lesson with Joy on Saturday afternoon, and again Amy was really pleased with how it's going. It's really lovely to hear Amy getting so excited about training and next season, but with a cracking little dog like Summer it's not really surprising at all.