Back from Vegas!

I had absolutely no time to write about our last Wednesday's agility class before getting home from class, finishing packing for our 30th wedding anniversary trip to Las Vegas and hitting the hay to get up at 3:00 am on Thursday to make our plane. We had a great time, spent mornings at the Lazy River or Wave Pool at Mandalay Bay resort (with a cocktail as an eye-opener.) Went to a crazy restaurant at Excalibur called Dick's Last Resort, saw Mama Mia with a Broadway cast, and reintroduced the hubby to public transportation when we took the double-decker bus downtown to souvenir shop and have lunch. All in all a very relaxing trip.

Our instructor emailed our second week critique:

8/22/07: Skills worked: aframe/stairs, teeter, weaves, sequences with sit stays, focus forward, panel, tire

Cash: Aframe: much better at not running around aframe (there was more room, and it was lower), do not ever correct him for taking it on his own at this point, and when working just on bottom position, always have him get on the side, not run up and turn around. Very nice at holding position, Julie now needs to proof by running past and hanging back. Both of these can be worked just from the bottom position as well.

Sequence work: Set up good, some focus forward, panel fine, 5 ft lateral distance to tunnel, does curve in to Julie, need placement of reward (always away from Julie) to help with this. Struggled with tire (going through side) with lateral distance, need to practice this away from class.

Teeter/weaves: Julie/Cash –
Teeter – Seemed to have no fear of problems with the teeter w/the tables – would take one of the tables out and see how he does then.
Weaves – Very nice using the jump and difficult angles, found the entrances no problem and had very good speed – Julie even did a rear cross once --- had Julie go to the middle of the weave to call Cash through and he missed the entrance – will need to work on that next week --- Was very pleased overall with Cash’s performance on the teter and the weaves.

I didn't see our recap until we got home Monday night, and was relatively pleased. We have had rain here so Cash hasn't had the outside work he had between the first and second class. I'm afraid that lack of practice will show tonight. We'll see......