Team Practice

A good team practice at the field today. I had made some two inch puppy jumps, some regular six inch jumps, and another ten inch jump board with help of Susan Owens' husband Richard.

Tug and the green dogs hit the lanes first. Tug looked good breaking in the puppy jumps. Susan hopes to have him ready to run by spring when he turns one. Jet made progress as Katie was able to send him to the box and recall over all four jumps. I think Katie hopes to have Jet ready for the February tournament, which shouldn't be a problem. Jeep did recalls next to Zio and was better toward the end about not chasing. Later Jeep worked on box turns with mixed results. Susan has decided to work on getting him to go over and back with just a jump board at home for a bit. I saw some progress with Si and Fly today as he's beginning to send her to the box by command instead of luring her. Maverick recalled over all four jumps without baby gates and Michele took one of our old boxes home to start doing box work with him. Jane's two dogs are doing great on recalls, so I think it's time to start teaching some turns. Later in the session, Connie worked with Michele on Quigli's box turn.

Jean-Luc did passing drills with Cody and did great. Burst worked on passing with Zio and did great after a few initial refusals. Luigi worked on doing his box turn while racing Deuce and was doing really well keeping his turn.

Zio and Wisp took to the lanes in a mock race setup. Zio practicing on keeping his turn intact while racing and Wisp working on turning the right way while racing a dog to his left. We tried a few things with Wisp, but it seemed to work best with Daniel up by the box on the ball side calling him. The last two in a row he turned correctly toward Daniel, so we'll call it great progress. Zio turned way wide on his first run without even going over the jumps on the return. After that miscue, he ran flawlessly every time and kept a really nice turn. More of that to come for both of them with winter homework.

Zio ended his practice by doing pairs runs with Jean-Luc. This one was passing practice for Jean-Luc and Katie at the Dream Team Challenge.