Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Agility hopeful

This new park is such a blast! Boone loves the agility course there, especially the jumps. It didn't take him long to figure out what I wanted him to do, I only had to point and say "over" to a few jumps before he got the hang of it and I could point out a jump and he'd go flying over it unless of course he got distracted by a few other dogs. Silly beast, his focus needs works as do many other things. He loves the A-frame as well, there are two there but he's better at the smaller one and isn't so keen on the larger. I didn't bother with anything besides the jumps and A-frame today, decided to stick with what he liked, we did a couple one overs of the dogwalk though.

I've also decided that he really, seriously needs to see a professional to work out his behavior issues. He is a million times better with strange people now, but I've noticed at the dog park he'll start fights, not much contact is made but there are alot of vocals. usually after he bites the bum of the wrong dog one to many times or gets the tables turned on him and gets chased around which is fun for a bit but he'll suddenly get a fright and start snapping at whatever he can dog wise. So the people issue calmed down but now he's going after dogs. This is why we go early in the morning, but this morning I got out a little late and there were a few people there unlike on Monday where there was no one around for a good hour. Picking a trainer is so hard, I don't want to mess him up any further and I know some trainers shouldn't go about trainer a goldfish let alone a dog and this scares the beejesus out of me. But it has to be done I suppose. For his sake and then after his issues are hopefully dealt with we can find come agility classes and get a little more serious about all of this. I think he really could be a good agility dog, he really does love it but his nervousness gets in the way of alot of things.





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