Tuesday Evening

We did some runs for about fifteen minutes last night and he was doing great. I left the props as reminders, but I may start trying to wean him away from them. The cone is currently about five feet from the box, and interestingly, he would go to the box as normal, but then return on the same side of the cone. Great for doing sharp turns I guess, but he obviously wasn't using it as a turn reference.

We still haven't done his first tournament and I had to make some decisions about his second tournament. There aren't enough dogs for a third team, so Si suggested that he get some team experience by sharing duties on the second team. All that is sort of contingent on him learning how to run past other dogs at the start finish line in a three week time frame at practice. If all goes well at the February tournament and he learns to pass, then he'll run on the second team about half the time on Saturday and maybe a third of the time on Sunday during the March tournament. I didn't really want to go all the way to Texas for a part time weekend, so I signed him up for racing singles on both days too. Hopefully, that's not going to be too much.