Things started promisingly with a visit to the KC agility festival to see some proper agility dogs and also meet up with Sian, Rhomi and Rocket. We had a go on the small agility course for non-agility dogs to have a go at and Molly did really well, mostly listening and having a great time.
It was our KC good citizen test on Tuesday and despite lots of practice I was not totally confident Molly would do a minute stay. She was very bouncy - but worked nicely and did everything else I asked of her so I was pretty pleased as it is just four months since I got her and they have been a pretty difficult few months without too much focus for dog training. Slight extra difficulty for the stay exercise was us being placed next to a large mastiff type dog we had not met before and Molly was not sure of. Anyway....
.. I asked her to lay down and stay - walked the required five paces and she stayed there - but sat up to have a scratch which means she failed the test. Oh well!! I was pleased with her anyway and it just means we need to stay in the class for a while longer until the next test.
Wednesday evening I decided to take her for a nice relaxing walk in the fields by Old Milverton. I seriously understimated her desire to hunt and when she heard some rustling she vanished into the crop totally and I had to call on Marianne and Andrew to help me find her. Lesson learned and we are back to working on the long line in areas which may be tempting.
Our final training experience of the week was Thursday and agililty. I guess I should have predicted really - but after the fun she had on Wednesday she had no wish to listen to me at all and spent her evening doing what she wanted - which was more than a tiny bit embarrasing!!
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