Can't Wait for the Weekend!

Gracie's had two classes already this week, reactive obedience on Mon. and intro to weaves last night.  The obedience class is pretty easy for Gracie, except any time that she has to sit still.  Heeling, stays, and come are no brainers for her.  I'm just glad I can work her more around other dogs.  She did have an incident of staring too much at one of the other dogs, my fault for not stopping and getting her attention back.  Gracie didn't react though, just the other dog did.  She's so good about ignoring other well behaved dogs in class now.  In weaves last night the class got separated (not on purpose) into herding dogs on one side and non herding dogs on the other.  The non herding side included a chihuahua, an English toy spaniel, a springer spaniel, and a lab mix (the lab mix does not focus on his mom very well and is of course black and no taller than Gracie, so Gracie doesn't like him very much).  The herding side was Gracie, another blue heeler mix, a border collie and an aussie mix, all nice well behaved dogs and attentive handlers which makes Gracie's job of being well behaved and ignoring other dogs much easier.  She had a good night running right past the other dogs into her kennel.  Her weaving was pretty too!  We finally got up to 6 poles, even got them pretty close to straight.  It was so fun to watch all the dogs figure out the extra poles, most of them got it pretty quick!

This weekend is the AKC World Team Tryouts!  My mom is coming up to visit and we're going to go watch!  I'm taking a notebook to sketch out courses and write down what all these pros from around the country do, from warm ups to course moves, that makes them so great.  I'll have to post some of what I learn next week.  Happy agility!