Friday, November 10, 2006

Agility has been going really well

I really think Orion's reactivity is getting a lot more manageable. Usually his only outbursts are when dogs really go flying through tunnels or over the dog walk or A-frame. I think most of it really has to do with noise too, it doesn't matter whether he can see the dogs doing it or not. If it's loud he flips out. But even that is getting better. Pretty much he always greets dogs well now, I make sure its a quick greeting though, so now one thinks to turn it into not so friendly of a greeting. His course running and obstacles are all improving too, and I think even my handling is improving some too. His recalls have also been better latelty, I'm assuming because I'm practicing them in more situations and rewarding him for coming.

Orion also had his first Rally run-thru on Monday, and that went pretty well too, he wasn't the most compliant, but he didn't have any outbursts, he was just very alert, which is a huge change from the last time we went to a rally run-thru. So yeah for progress.