Midas & Mason, Rally Round III, Class #4
Tonight was the boys’ last class for Rally. I brought a kennel again, Midas was much better behaved in it this time around. Preferred to sit and mope, with his nose smashed to the grate and look pitiful. Perfect 
Midas was on tonight. There were some things where he was being pretty lazy but for the most part he did really well. We had some distraction (a toy and a food bowl) that he did fine on and two jumps which he had no problems with. His Swing command was the cleanest I’ve seen it but we still need to work on the Stand command. We went through twice and he was pretty focused the whole time. I talked to the instructor about his waning attention span and decided to give him a little break from Rally. We will be going to her open sessions later when possible with a hopeful competition date of October.
Mason was terrific as usual . He nailed the jump tonight so that I had to speed up because with his new confidence he was starting to twist, looking for me. His Close command is really, really coming along. He does excellent with sit while I walk around him and with lay down. We need to work on the Stand command quite a bit though. His heel is perfect but the first time we went by the distractions he didn’t do well. The second time though, my Leave It command was enough, he glanced but did not even take one step toward the distraction. Our biggest trouble is making sure his wagging tail doesn’t take out the signs lol. I may consider doing more Rally classes with Mason, I haven’t decided yet. Perhaps I’ll just work him at home and then wing it at the same event Midas is going to. Will have to think about it.