Only took her for the atmosphere.. she was a bit scared coming into the venue but as soon as she saw dogs working she was SCREAMING haha. Sausage helped also. She was really reactive to them moving but not so much barking, although she does have a really annoying high pitched bark. She’s bulkier and more manly than Pogo, how can Pogo have a deeper voice?!

I didn’t actually intend on doing anything with her but there wasn’t many people there tonight, so we did one jump and eventually worked up to four. She’s recalling to me to a tennis ball which I know isn’t great, but she doesn’t understand the concept of tugging and that’s something I would need to teach her pretty much every day, whereas I may only have her once a week in a noisy environment. I’m still going to try obviously, but I’m hoping I can still train a fast recall regardless.

She took off to explore the arena on a couple of occasions but she doesn’t have a specific recall cue so the fact that it was a bit tricky to get her back doesn’t bother me at the minute.. it was a lot easier than I expected anyway. I mostly just panic that I’m wasting people’s time so I don’t use my dog training skills I just worry lol!

When dogs weren’t moving she was absolutely fine, she did go over to investigate but kept at least a metre away from them, she does have really good social skills. However Leanne is training her young working cocker at the moment who is very puppyish, so when he ran over to her she took opportunity to jump on his head! At least she seemed to be able to tell the difference though.

Really happy with her, can’t wait to have more of a bond with her and I’m pleased she was remotely interested in me at all. Discussing harnesses with Helen as I type lol.

Dan had warned me several times that (in his words) “Tegan will maul Pogo!” because she’s so pushy with play with their weimaraner. T is much heavier set as she probably has some staffie in her, and she’s also faster because she’s bigger (and bred for racing). I worried about this as Pogo uses her speed with dogs that are too rough with her, but I knew with Tegan she wouldn’t really be able to escape.

However we shouldn’t have worried – it probably helped that we gave T a tennis ball so her focus wasn’t on mission: eat Pogo, but they got along really well together and Pogs took on the chasing roll so we were good in terms of safety! It’s very lovely that Pogo has her own personal trainer now rather than being everyone else’s personal trainer.

Unfortunately however she fell over on concrete during the walk and we now have this lovely injury:

It’s not that bad it’s just (as ALWAYS) in a really stupid & awkward place. Annoying when I was finally getting back into flyball. Whiiiiiich reminds me to post this video:

This is from Sunday, I wanted to test her pancreas on a full run so ignore her box. I think her extension looks a hell of a lot better than it possibly ever did, although she’s lacking in power a bit.