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Location: uk
Joined: Mar 2006
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Heh, I know the feeling - I know many other handlers too who breath a sigh of relief walking a course and seeing no weaves out
Well I don't think that I will need to worry for long, Deef is obsessed with weaves, he thinks they are the best thing ever and all the signs are that sol is heading the same way.
I know so many dogs that are not that keen because the handlers got cross with them for getting them wrong so I have always been really careful to make them fun. Deef went through a variety of methods with weaves, he missed entries, he skipped last poles and he got the entry, did two poles and then ran alongside them wiggling his bum until 2 from the end and then he would do those and he thought that was ok
The funniest one to watch (so I am told) was the "get the entry flat out and hit second pole so hard that you bounce out and fall in heap on the floor and then just get up and go back in at the first pole you see" method. He never went back in at the right pole and I never took him back cos I always thought that as he was trying so hard to get it right there was no point. He has cracking weaves now, runs on his hind legs and just paddles with his front feet, sometimes he is weaving two legged! I think Sol will probably do most of the same things, not bothered, as long as he is enjoying them. Weaves are the silliest thing from the dogs point of view, why go through when you can go past much quicker? A lot of people seem to forget they have to give them a good reason to do them
After watching a lot of young dogs that don't do more than 2 jumps without coming back and barking, the fact that Sol can do 5 in a row without me no problem is definitely not a bad thing!
There ya go
errm, well, actually, he has already had several E's for going on and doing extra jumps when he should be turning right/left but at least he goes! The result I believe of lots of straight lines when he first started training, this and his weave training was all I did in the paddock away from my proper lessons. Dead boring but it does pay off in the end!