Well, we were very excited thinking we were getting an early Spring in March. I got the yard all set up with a nice “course” to start working the puppies on. Then came the bitter cold, wind and snow so things are delayed a bit. But here is the course we plan to play with. It gives up lots of chances to work some baby dog focus skills, tight turns and crosses on some real-world challenges they will see later on. No pressure to be perfect here it is all about learning a developing a clear understanding of these moves. We would be doing lots of rewarding and breaking this one down into simple single jump turns and slowly allowing the pups to sequence longer section of the course, as long as they cannot maintain focus and control. This set up will have variety of numbered “courses” we will play with adding additional skills and text. We will not change things up until the pups have made progress on the current sequences. I am very happy to say that the pups did some great work this past week and it is time to change things up.
