Oops! been a while!

Things are still going good here in GA. Had a job interview the other day. Doesn't look very good. There are about 100 applicants for every job posted. Job postings are very far and few between. But on the other hand I have been getting a lot done with the house. I am almost done putting our office/computer room together. I just put up some sheers on the Windows beside the front door. It looks great!

Toby is doing great in his agility class. Tonight he did not zoom one time! This is huge progress. Our relationship is coming along very well. I think what is helping is that he now has to work for every piece of kibble he gets. I had gotten lazy about his feedings. I had just been putting his dinner in a bowel and letting him eat. Well not no more! Every morning for breakfast he has to do something just to get a piece of kibble. After he works for his breakfast he gets to go outside and run in his back yard. Then he has to come in and take a nap. After the nap I will take him outside and make him work with jumps. Tomorrow I am going to work with a latter. Toby needs to remember that he has back feet. I have not worked with him on this very much and it has been a while. I think this will help him with the teeter. Melissa, our instructor is teaching us all the little things everyone takes for granite. Like the proper way to perform the teeter. For the most part the instruction that I have gotten on the teeter is just for the dog to get comfortable with the movement. Tonight we learned how the dog should run to the end and ride the board down. I think that this has been the goal of other instructors however, since I am new at this I did not know how to get the dog to do that. Melissa showed us how to get that behavior. It doesn't automatically appear. This is something I just never thought of. I think I have finally gotten an instructor who understands that I just don't know how to train that perfect behavior. She adds in all of the tiny details that experience handlers already know.