A couple of things I have learned within the past 24 hours...1. Giving Tax a toy with a squeaker at 1 am after being at the late night Christmas Eve service at church literally drives my entire family insane. 2. Tax is not too found of my movement. The latter is something that honestly did not surprise me and really was not something I learned in the past 24 hours, but more or less was something we worked really hard on in training yesterday.
Yesterday we went and trained at a friend's field. We had so much fun! Lots and lots of training with lots of fun, relaxing breaks to discuss life. My favorite kind of training. I think Tax enjoyed it too, as he got to just relax in the pool and under a tree for most of the day. So when we weren't just enjoying the Florida weather in December we worked on some jumping. Basically if I was stationary, there were absolutely no problems. As expected. Then if I was moving in the same direction as Tax, no problems. Ok, again, as expected. The work came in when I added angles into the picture. When I would send him to an angle but not babysit the jump or shape the turn before the jump, he would try his hardest to try and catch up and take the shortest path; which usually meant a bar would come down. This didn't happen ever time but was an obvious weakness. So we worked and practiced so many different angles. There was definite improvement throughout the training session too. It was really good though to get him to a new location since he was fairly excited to run when he first realized there was agility and managed to run perfect the very first run. That is always a reassuring feeling.
So to follow up the angles practice, today I did some basic foundation jumping drills with the boy to practice the angles with a lot of speed and me not necessarily always being there. He did a really good job with it. Nothing like jump work to make the perfect Christmas present to an agility dog. ;) Tax has definitely been a really good boy and has been the perfect guest. Dad loves playing with him...and Tax doesn't mind that too much either. ;) For now it is time to relax, watch a movie, then go to bed. :) Oh what a happy Christmas.
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