Rocket Dog!

A great practice today! I think we'll get in the 18 second range at the next tournament and will be in the 17's before the end of the year. Susan Owen's Welsh Sheepdog, Jean-Luc, is advancing by leaps and bounds (literally). Susan is planning on running him in singles at the August tournament and I think he's going to be really fast and ready for team soon after. Very, very fast return and a good turn to boot!

We ran Zio head to head against Wisp to work on Wisp's habit of turning the wrong way to watch the other lane. These two are the most competitive dogs on the team. They aren't just out there to complete a run, they're out there to race! On the practice field, the lanes are only about five feet apart, so it's side by side racing the whole time. Zio did his turns perfect, but Wisp was watching Zio and turned wrong the times I saw. Both dogs had incredible drive back to the tug and put on quite a show for everyone. Awesome fun to watch Zio running that fast AND doing his turns right!

Good boy Zio!