Midas, Agility Round III, Class #1
Tonight was the beginning of Midas’s third round of agility classes. It went…ok. We worked mainly on having our dogs work at a distance to us - something that Midas does not necessarily excel at.
We did a lot of jumping:
Here he missed the next jump - you can tell because he’s so close to me:
This series he made it 
We also worked on a different style of Big Jump than we’ve used in the past:
And of course the Tire Jump:
From the Tire they were supposed to go right onto the Teeter-Totter. Our first time with the dogs working on it without having someone holding them on. Everyone’s dogs were really nervous and ended up being handled. Mine? Heck no! Midas flew up and down the Teeter, then whipped around and did it again and when he missed it once, he jumped in the middle…needless to say, he made our instructor nervous being so overzealous so we had to stop 
The A-Frame was a snap - in fact, we had more of a problem keeping him off of it when running by…
I was supposed to send him to the Table from a distance, he did ok on that, sometimes he did it, sometimes he didn’t…and once he was treated by the instructor for going there, he didn’t want to come back to me. Dang difficult dog!
And then our worst obstacle…the weaves. I can tell Midas is just following my hand/treat through them and not paying attention to what he’s actually doing. It’s so frustrating, I can’t wait until he “gets” it!
So, the instructor suggested we try the peanut butter on a stick again, while holding him back slightly by his tab so that he was really wanting to get it and barely weaving through with the stick, making him do it on his own.
That worked fairly well, I’m still not seeing the “click” in his eyes though, although it was easier for me to lead him with that. His favorite part was after:
