Teka was very friendly with my partner, E, tonight. Our first exercise was a jump into the weave-o-matics. I kept them only slightly open. The purpose was to work on independence and completion. So I moved away while she was in the weaves. She had a lot of trouble with it but did complete them when I really, really supported her, even from afar. And she was so excited when she completed them.
Next we worked on the channel weaves, with three jumps set up to give three different entry points. This let us work on weaves and front crosses while practicing different entries. Teka did really well and was very excited about doing well. In fact, she really made a decision to complete the set once while I was moving away.
Our last exercise was the four weave entry exercise. There was a jump at each end to work on entries again. Teka did pretty well, although she had trouble with one of the entries, so we repeated it a couple times.
She stayed very upbeat throughout class, even with a dog being too close for her comfort during our last exercise. So I let her take a turn on some of the contact obstacles that were still out. She did the teeter, the dog walk and the table with a down. She acted like it was a fun reward!
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