So this week we ran a Gamblers course. Gussie did pretty well on his first run. He knocked all the bars but got a few of the contacts and followed my direction very well. He was successfully able to complete the gamble but knocked the jump bars while doing it. On his second run, he bit me again because I tried to move him through too much of an empty space. He gets really frustrated by that. A lot of the handlers that were running the course had trouble with the gamble. The two most common mistakes were that the dogs pull into the handler after jump 1 rather than take the correct side of jump 2. The other issues was that the handlers were not able to redirect the dogs over the number 3 jump and the dogs instead headed straight to jump 4.
Flex and I just ran a few tunnels and jumps. His zoomies were minimized by the yummy chicken that I brought for treats. I rewarded him after every obstacles or every other one. He had a tough time with the gamble too because he still comes back to me after every jump. I am OK with this right now because of his tendency to zoom, but i was still impressed that he stuck with me so well today.
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