It's a Bird, It's a Plane! Oh No! It's Toby!

Toby and I had class tonight out at BF3. It was a great night for everyone. Boomer got to celebrate taking first place in one of his runs this weekend. Boomer I sure hope you get more first places. Those Cup cakes are out of this world! Dave says "thanks" even though he did not get his all in one piece. I tried! Anyway back to the Tobes. The first run of the night was Tunnel to dog walk. Toby shot out of that tunnel like he had been shot out of a cannon! Up over the dog walk and off up into the air. For a minute I thought he could fly! No, no wings for Toby. He crashed to the ground unhurt and happy to be running agility again. Once I managed to put my heart back in my chest everything was OK. From there we worked on running some small sequences with the jumps dog walk and tunnel. We worked a couple of 180's. We learned about where to pick our dogs up after an obstacle to make sure they are square for the next obstacle. I guess that is why Toby flew off the dog walk. Instead of waiting for him at the tunnel entrance and giving him space to square up to the dog walk I ran over to the dog walk causing Toby to turn towards me and hit the dog walk at a not so good angle. I will definitely watch that from now on! Half way thru the class we moved into the barn. There we worked on turns and changes of direction. The most important thing of the night was that Toby did not do one single zoom. He came to me when I called him. I don't think my big guy likes to sit and watch the other dogs have fun while he is in time out. I do need to work on his wait. He just does not want to wait for me to release before running the coarse. After a couple of times of not getting any treat he wised up a bit. I guess this is just going to take some time. Right now all I know is this dog is fast! Can handlers where roller skates in the agility ring?