Another Great Sunday

Just got back from playing with the dogs in the rain :-)  Gata and I are DRENCHED, Tor is pretty dry.  Tor will get his turn to work in the rain eventually.  He just got lucky this morning that it didn't start to pour until after he was done.

Both dogs are doing great.  Well, I guess Gata was doing her best to cheat on her Agility pot work this morning.  But I can't really blame her for that - running around pots is pretty boring.  So I gave her a break and changed over to our favorite cone game using the pots instead of cones.  We haven't done that in awhile and she loves it.  She did great.  I even threw in a couple of downs on her way to different pots (simulating the SchH send out) and she did great - sliding stop to a turning down.  Really nice stuff from her and absolutely full of herself.

She is also doing great in SchH these days.  Will trial her a couple (2 or 3) times this year with an emphasis on quality of performance in all 3 phases.  Essentially seeing what kind of points we can get.  Her out of motions are coming along but need to work on those all the time.  Her send out is doing great.  Her long down is also coming along but have learned my lesson on that one.  We will continue to practice with gunfire on a much more regular basis.

Tor had a blast this morning, too.  He didn't mind the light rain/drizzle that he was working in though he did stop to shake now and then.  He's really coming along in all aspects of the work.  His "Out" is pretty consistent on both me and Dave.  Think I will start having other people play tug or helper with him so that he generalizes the behavior.  He had a really good time Friday night at club.  His "Out" has gotten good enough that he got to do some new, fun stuff with Dave.  Got to do a few short puppy long bites and a couple escape bites.  He thought that was just plain fun and came flying back with the puppy sleeve :-)  One nice thing about him is that he brings the sleeve back with as much youthful enthusiasm to Dave as he does to me.  Really happy to see that.  Don't see any suspicious behavior in him around people at all these days.

Now to decide what indoors stuff to do for the rest of the day :-)   I don't mind getting wet now and again but don't mind staying dry either!