but sending good vibes your way for your Novice runs today.
Thanks for the good vibes! We did not Q
BUT it was a big improvement over yesterday! Which is all I wanted and told my husband before going in. I will be happy with hitting rat tubes and leaving the pool noodles alone. She did grab BOTH pool noodles first run
but immediately outted on command and left them alone. She found the rats in under 30 seconds, didn't alert on one litter tube even though she breezed over them.
Her first run she dropped the bumpers inside the tunnel so she didn't want to tunnel because she wanted to grab the bumpers but I told her leave it and they were both blocking either entrance. Oye. Second run an improvement over first! She didn't touch the bumpers, yay!!! Found the rat under 30 seconds again!!! Gave the ring steward a nice nose bonk to the crotch.
Wouldn't tunnel, kept opting to jump two bales high instead of tunneling.
I noticed the tunnel is much shorter than ours at home so in this one she would've bumped her shoulders going in. I think our bales are taller so we will have to see if we can change them up as I noticed some at home turf weren't all the same size.
She got a little distracted again with the judge and steward but came right back to work when directed then I let her hunt without saying anything. I know she will eventually get used to people being in the ring and will eventually ignore them. I also know once she's shown she can tunnel these tunnels they will be a piece of cake! She looves the agility tunnels and the barn hunt one at home and opts for it all the time just for fun.
The guy that is going to put on classes in our unofficial "club" was our ring steward and told us good job today, that Ripley is a great hunter and said, in all his years barn hunting he has never seen a dog go right for the bumpers and try to play with them
. He said we will work those kinks out in class. I'm personally excited and can't wait to work these little nuances out! We had a lot of nice compliments. Everyone enjoyed watching her have fun haha.