Update

Sorry it has been awhile! Agility this week was cancelled due to rain but I still need to recap from the week before anyway. :-)

First - Flyball. Last week things went pretty well. We had a revalation where we realized Mocca would be more apt to run back over the jumps after she got the ball if I stayed back at the other end & called her, and fake ran away. This seemed to work MUCH better than me going down to where she was after she gets the ball & telling her to jump. I think we even got 3 jumps in. She definately has the going down over the jumps to get the ball. She gets very focused when we start off at the other end and you can tell she is just thinking in her little head how she needs to get down there real quick & get that ball out of the box! It's cute.

This week in flyball was different. First of all we got there early & were invited in to try the disc dog (otherwise known as Frisbee). I knew Mocca would excel at this, so figured why not? I gave it a few tosses, a couple which were actually decent and Mocca did her thing - race & leap, and catch! She makes it look so easy. Then you should have seen her prancing & running back all smug & happy. The people at disc dog (the same people who do flyball) were just grinning like mad and one of the trainers commented on how happy Mocca was doing that! Then we let the other dogs have their turns - however...I had to literally SIT on the ground & HOLD Mocca there as she was just dying to go get that frisbee! I have never seen her so worked up! She was even crying & BARKING (which she generally doesnt do except at squirrels). It was astonishing. We are thinking about doing the disc dog, but I am not sure. My problem is that she KNOWS how to do that, and Flyball is more of a challenge - but it is quite obvious her interest in the frisbee FAR outweighs the flyball. We'll see.

Agility: Last week's class was pretty good except I made a fatal error: I let one of the trainers & other people pass out treats to Mocca before class. I must remember to never do this again! Mocca did not want to focus on me at all, and wanted to go to everybody else in case they would give her treats. When we first started out on the first course she just went running around the arena saying hello to whoever she felt like it. It was pretty amusing actually. She finally settled down and things went better evenutally. We did several walks over the teeter totter, and she insists on hopping off the ends & missing the target. We will need to work on that for sure. Hopefully next week will be a good one!