The Bulb Goes On

Flyball on Tuesday: she did it! We did it! Something just clicked, and Mocca ran the course 100% and did a fantastic job! We started slow, with just 2 and she did okay, so we bumped up to 3, and she did okay, so we said, hey lets go for it! ALL FOUR JUMP! DOWN & BACK! I think it was just that she finally understood the goal is to get the ball - and run back as quick as possible to me. And we finally figured out I need to stay in a straight line from the jumps calling her back. THEN she comes back in a straight line over the jumps. We were all so excited! She really flew over them, too! AND she did it about 4 times in a row! It was so great to see her finally get the whole course. It has been quite a challenge, but I am glad we stuck with it.

Agility: It was a bit of a hectic evening. Tanja (Mocca's 1st mom & my sister-in-law) came down with my mom & my 3 year old neice, Katie. Mocca was wound up by the time we got to class from running around the yard at home with Katie, and was a bit distracted with having them at class, but we did pretty good! It was really great that Tanja was able to make it down & see Mocca in action.

We did however, clue in on one good thing at class. I had been obsessed by calling mocca over to me, "come...come...here...here.." to get her going where I wanted, but one of the trainers kept telling me over & over that I needed to just tell Mocca the COMMAND of the next obstacle. Well, I finally got it this time! Sure enough, when I started just yelling the next command after she did the last, Mocca knew more where to go & what to do! Before we did a lot of running around haphazardly - Mocca trying her best to figure out where she was supposed to be. When I finally started getting those commands out right away, things went a whole lot smoother!

All in all it was a fantastic week. Tanja got some photos of us at Agility which I'll try to get posted. We'll be off now for a couple weeks due to vacation, etc.

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