The puppy made me do it!

I had a list of things I was going to work on with Rampage and Apollo tonight, with the running contacts headlining. But they weren't co-operating. Apollo was having a love affair with his squeaky ball and I was the third wheel. He wasn't even interested in food! Today just wasn't his day to train. Then with Rampage, I did a few minutes of running dogwalk with Rampage and HE was done.

Well after watching and editing his video, it turns out that it was way longer than a few minutes that I worked with him and I drained all of his puppy learning abilities for the evening. Training a running dogwalk sucks the life out of all other training!

So because I had all these training plans and neither Rampage OR Apollo were going to humor me (it's their fault), I ended up training Icon on his travel board. I figure it's not REAL agility. It's only a small plank... And really, it wouldn't be smart to go from not doing agility at all for 3 weeks to right back full agility courses. I can convince myself of anything :). So I did some contact work with him and then some one jump work to work on turns. I started at 16" and worked him up to 24" (Ok, I can't lie... I did 16 and 20" with him yesterday and 20 and 24" today) and then I did some tunnels with him to work on turns out of tunnels.

I video tape most of my training sessions, but oh man, editing them is BORING. I don't think I'm going to be posting them on a very regular basis! I didn't bother editing Icon's jump work or tunnels

Anyway, these are the ones I edited. Don't be too jealous of my cool pink sandals and how fashionable I look wearing them over socks.

Rampage running dogwalk from Agility Dogs on Vimeo.

Icon contacts from Agility Dogs on Vimeo.