A BEAUTIFUL JUMPER

Yesterday, October 20th, at our Four Paw Agility class, Winston once again proved himself an able, if sometimes distracted student.
His warm up lesson was to wait in front of a jump until I gave him the command, then to jump, first to the left, then to the right, once with me facing backwards. He did well at this, and he’s getting much better at waiting until released. Both Jan and Ann complimented him on this.
Winston’s next lesson was to go over five jumps in a straight row. It took of couple of tries, with me at the starting point and instructor Eric at the finish with a touch plate and treats. Once Winston got the idea, he did all five jumps with ease and it was beautiful to watch. Everyone commented on what great form he has. He’s a natural jumper.
His third lesson was to run a circuit of one jump and one tunnel and keep running it until I said to stop. The tunnel is a tube about 12 feet long, two feet high and is curved at a 90 degree angle. Winston managed to run the course twice before getting too distracted. Tunnel, jump, tunnel, jump. Then he lost his concentration and on top of the tunnel and ran about half way across it. A nice feat, but sorry, Winston, no treat. When we were looking he also ran up to the top of the steep ramp, which is about 6 feet high. No fear of heights for Winston!