Toby is becoming a star!

Toby had class last night and it was AWESOME! He still has not zoomed. I think it has been at least a month since his last self rewarding behavior took place. I am so excited about his training now. We are have loads of fun in class. We are now ahead of all of our class mates. Next week we get to start working on a moving teeter. And I might add that Toby is the only one progressing. It might be just because he has done all of this before. But at least we are finally getting some where. Toby has learned to crouch at the end of the teeter so he can ride the teeter down safely. His two on two off on the dog walk and a-frame are coming along nicely. I need to spend a lot move time with the weave poles. That is one obstacle that we have not been working on very much. But we will have it down by next week. I am sure of it. The instructor has had only wonderful things to say about Toby here lately. She is loving his focus and how fast this guy picks things up. She totally gets Toby and is helping me get Toby. She told me that he is going to be a star when we start showing. She loves this package! I think some of it has to do with the fact that I have decided that we will not show until I find a job. So the pressure is off when it comes to getting him into the show ring. Before that was all that I could think about. That pressure was getting to me and Toby. I worried that maybe he was getting to old to do this sport and that I should have had him trained and ready to go by the time he was two years old. I thought that I should have had to spend only one year training. That might have been so if this was my second or third agility dog. Toby is my first and I have had to learn a lot of things myself. I think the biggest thing that I learned is that working with Toby in the mornings and making him work for breakfast has been the best thing ever. Not only does he love this but I am finding that teaching Toby tricks is a lot of fun. For the past week I have been teaching Toby to put Frankie in the box. Then we started putting his sheep in the box. I am hoping that soon he will be able to pick up his toys and but them in the box. I have also worked getting Toby to put himself into the box. I think Toby loves his shoe box!