Sassy Had Class

Just a quick follow-up on Sassy's Class last night.  All was going well, need to work a little more on focus while heeling, new place, other dogs all making this a challenge but we're working on it.

Came time to work on the jumps for the directed jumping.  Sassy has done jumps before but she decided she was going to duck under this jump, I laughed, made it worse, bad trainer.  So we started over with the leash and making her jump over.  The bar fell down, another bad choice on my part.  We should have walked away but I was stubborn, gonna make this work etc... In the end she did jump the bar and we moved on.  This morning we set up the jump and she sat off centre, I stood opposite also off centre, she took the jump as directed.  She only missed the jump once in 5 goes.  Finished that exercise on a good note and played with the rag toy.  Back to last night:  moved from the jump to working on our scent articles.  The class trainer suggested as this was the first time in a new place to make it easy for Sassy.  I only put out 6 articles total, scented and placed the first one, she went out had a look, got distracted forgot what she was doing came half way back, I sent her back she went right to the correct article, picked it up and brought it in.  Not too bad for a strange place.  We did a couple more, she worked very hard, only brought back one wrong article but went right back out for and picked up the correct one again.  Once again we ended on a good note, brought out the rag toy and had some fun.

Overall I'm pretty happy with how class went last night, just need to work on my choices more and we should make a good team.