The heat finally broke and we got some chances to train this weekend and today. All the sessions have gone really well. I raised the teeter three links. I also raised the puppy dogwalk a little and, more importantly, switched to a regular middle plank instead of the two tables.
For some reason, her speed seemed to pick up this weekend, especially in the tunnels and "jumps". One could say she was flying for her. She's cute with her ears pinned back.
She continued to attack the teeter and still willing to pounce the upside as well. She doesn't really "pounce" anymore like it was early on where she jumped on the upside. Instead she is showing her intelligence now that it is higher and getting on in the middle and riding it down when I say pounce.
She also handled the change in the dogwalk well. Smartly she slowed down the first few times figuring out the increased slope and the skinnier middle plank. But her speed quickly picked up pace again. The downside plank is a little slow, I am pretty sure she is thinking hard about how to find her bottom position.
We do have one dogwalk issue. She hasn't fallen/jumped yet. I want her to do so a few times at this low height so she learns to jump off and not fall off. Not sure if I can just be patient and wait for it to happen or if I need to do something to get it to happen. Need to think on that one, don't want to do anything stupid.
Her flying wasn't just the increased speed. Tonight I went out to play ball with Sonic, Shasta and Pearle (Pearle doesn't play ball but enjoys hanging outside). Shasta played with the ball longer than she had in the past. But the slightly concerning part was she was following Sonic as she often does, Sonic runs right at the puppy teeter and then veers off at the last second. Shasta runs right up it and flies off. Glad it wasn't the full size teeter! She seemed unfazed by it. I put Sonic and Pearle away and we did some more puppy teeters, everything seemed fine. Of course, I won't really know if there were no repercussions until we do it again tomorrow. But it sure didn't look like it was going to bother her at all.
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