Saturday August 5th 2006 - team practice (outside)

(Backfilled in October 2009 due to impending closure of Geocities)

Started with boxwork, had someone hold her back and I would race her to and back from the box to get her to run faster, but it's not working too well because I'm not exactly fast myself! She was a bit clumsy and dropped the ball a couple of times when the box was unpsrung. Then we did full runs with Sammy (three jumps only, fourth as wing), where as soon as one dog finished and was focused on their handler then the other dog would go. I noticed Lucy is more eager now to go and do her run, and I didn't have to ease her into it by adding more jumps one at a time. Then we did two-lane passing with Emily, the two lanes now only two feet apart, and the dogs were released simultaneously, passing in the middle. I noticed Lucy look briefly at Emily but she came straight to me, good dog! (The other times we did passing exercises, the dogs were released more or less one at a time, so this was new for her.)