Tonight was agility class night, first as students, then as teachers. I brought Shasta for the first time. While other dogs ran, I had her out with me. While Sonic ran, she was in Sonic's crate. Again, she adapted to it all amazingly. New place and she walked into it with confidence. She met other dogs confidently. It's a horse arena with horses in it during the day. But she spent most of her "non-crate" time engaged with me. She preferred me over sniffing and eating some very enticing dirt! When it came time to run Sonic, she was attentive but calm in the crate.
We even quickly introduced her to the chute between classes. It took about 10 seconds to get her to see that I was on the other end of the long chute (as I held it up of course) to run through it the first time. But the second time she bolted right through. Third time too. It was time to call it quits. But she just kept pulling on her leash to get back to the chute. C'mon dad, one more!?
When it was time to teach, I kept her in the crate in the arena. For two hours she relaxed in the crate, watching some, sleeping some, greeting dogs that would sniff her crate. I was especially happy to see her relaxing in it while an anxious dog was whining very loudly next to her for a few minutes at a time.
Another impressive night for Shasta. How she sometimes chooses to sleep is not as impressive (see below).
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