Saturday October 21st 2006 - team practice (TTH)

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

Began the day by putting the treat ball on the ground a metre or so in front of the box. Set him up in front of the first jump and released him and he ran all the way by himself over the four jumps, got the ball then ran back to me. The first couple of times he missed the first jump after getting the ball but corrected himself in time for the remaining three jumps, but on his third try he did all of the jumps: an independent full run, just without the box! ;-) Later on when everyone arrived we put the treat ball on the ledge and I now had to run with him more instead of sending him from all the way back (he seems to lose some of his forward impulsion when there are other people around but I'm sure this will change as he gains confidence in his task). Towards the end we tried putting a regular ball on the ledge and darn his nose, he could tell the difference so we will have to work on that. Due to various circumstances, Walter's next practice won't be until mid-November.