Midas Agility #4
Tonight was Midas’s last agility class, but I also signed him up for Agility II which will start in a couple of weeks. He was being a handful when we first got to class tonight but everyone was running all over working on random objects on the course. So, I took him to the very center and worked on him being calm and quiet - it was quite successful! 
We got into partners again and worked through the different obstacles. There were a couple of new ones that included a collapsed tunnel, a dog walk, pinwheel jumps and a bigger jump. Midas excelled at all of the old ones, including the tunnel in a U (it was yellow and under the lights, and therefore brighter). He had a little bit of a hard time with the pinwheel because after every jump he would look at me expectantly to get his treat and falter for his command to the next jump. We didn’t get to work on that a lot but I think we can make it cleaner. The Big Jump was no problem at all. The dog walk, which I was expecting to be a slight issue, was not at all. In fact, he took to it so quickly that I had to jog to keep up.
He’s doing so great in all aspects of his training right now and it just makes me so pleased. At least one person each lesson comments on how much his behavior has changed and how nice it is to see someone working with him by being optimistic and proactive with his training. Very flattering!
After class, the instructor had everyone stand off the course and we each got to go through it one-by-one, practicing on any or all of the obstacles that we were comfortable with. Some opted not to try it, but we did. He did great. His only problem was that every single time we would walk BY the A-Frame, he would jump on it - I had no idea he loved it so much lol. Other than that he was totally willing. Very cool class!