Chook Work

It is only one month until Chook is a year old. So, time to ramp up the training regime! Chook is a man that benefits from concentrating on a small range of things, and so he has been working on only a selection of agility-related tasks. The plan is to prepare him for jumping courses. Contact obstacles can wait.

His work has included mostly flatwork skills, a bit of weave pole training, and more recently starting to do some jumping work.

Things that are going well:

- his ability to work off lead in places where he has a clear choice to do something else. He never chooses to;
- he is happily engaged in the work;
- VERY toy motivated (food not so much);
- he has reasonable speed, but I am trying to build more.

Things that could be better:
- I need to learn to move!;
- he could have more speed with some exercises;
- his adult self can be wary of people and other dogs.

He is still going to obedience class and we are working with those exercises too, although the training of competition obedience things is a bit secondary to the agility-related stuff. This doesn't bother me as they are in any case complementary. One just has to accept that there is not time to train everything to perfection all at once.