Gus had class on Monday night and he did OK. The first we worked on was weaves and again I had Gus stay on leash to perform the weaves. He was popping out of the poles at the 10th pole repeatedly.
On the second set he was supposed to perform v-sets and RFPs to get the dogs into the correct tunnel entrance. He did very well on this exercise (Except for the dropped bars).
The 3rd set was a how would you handle this set and we had quite a few problems here. He went off course at a number of locations, specifically from 4 to 5. He kept taking the number 3 jump (backwards)rather than pull towards me for 5. He also crossed behind me on a couple of occasions going from 6 to 7 and took the off course, wrong side entry to 11. This was very unusual since Gus almost never crosses behind me. I am going to work on this with him.
On the final set he was just a bar knocking fool. In addition I was working on his sit stays so he lost quite a few turns because he refused to sit. I am trying to enforce this in class now - he must sit and wait otherwise he loses his turn. Nothing else seems to work; he must learn some self control otherwise he will never be successful in agility.
As a side note I have posted the link to the FCI World Championship Blog under the agility links. They will be posting video from the competition and course maps so check it out.
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