Tonight was the start of Midas’s second round of Agility classes. There weren’t anywhere near as many dogs enrolled. There were a couple of new things including a chute tunnel and a teeter-totter.

The chute was a little difficult for us. He would lift his head up and then run in a 90 degree angle straight into the teeter-totter. We practiced with that for a bit and finally got him running straight.

He did well on the teeter-totter, not really any fear of going on it. But, once he got the hang of it he would hop off the last couple of feet, which is bad because it’s a contact point that he has to hit. So, we worked on going “easy” the last couple of feet and that worked well for us.

We had a couple of tunnels that we had to work on sending from really close and farther and different angles and through either side. He did really well except for one of the tunnels he didn’t really like to go in the one side if I was farther away. It wasn’t facing us, he had to go around to the end to reach it and for some reason he didn’t really like that.

We also worked on a taller A-Frame, 4 feet. He didn’t do well when I was walking too slowly, so I took him off-lead and let him go and he did great, he even did fairly well with the “wait” command at the bottom.

(tunnel facing out of this photo is the entrance he didn’t like to go in)

At the end of an hour we all got off to the side and got to go through everything on our own. I love that part. He’s so responsive and he doesn’t even glance towards the other dogs that are off-course. I love this class!

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