We had a better morning run today - there was nobody else at the club so Eepie just got distracted by racehorses doing trackwork across the road, some kangaroos in an adjacent paddock and lots of tiny little finches flying about catching insects in the early morning sunlight.
We did some targetting today - she needs to learn to stop on the contacts on her Agility equipment so today we took a plastic lid and practised stopping with one paw on the lid - she's amazing - after a few attempts she was doing a half playbow with one foot on the target, wagging her tail and looking at me with her cheeky grin.
At home we have been practising coming down the stairs off the deck out the back in a slow, controlled way. If i let her just "go" she flies down those stairs and lands with a thud on at the bottom - i don't like this because of the risk of injury and long term potential for arthritis - so learning to come down the stairs slowly and controlled is a good thing. Her command for this is "One" - meaning one step at a time - and she does this nicely as long as i am right in front of her insisting that she pays attention to the task.
When we got home she did a couple of runs through the weavers. This is coming along well and she's running twelve poles set in a V leaning out from a straight line - she's learning to lift her feet nicely and pretty soon i'll start straightening them up.
Harpo is still recovering from an episode of bloat (he ate some old leather and made himself very sick) so he's not working much right now. I am just happy to see him running about, playing with Ieper and wagging his tail, we came close to losing him which was pretty scary.
