Yucky Class

Agility tonight was "eh."

Jade was not focused at ALL. You'd think he was like one year old or something. He acted like we'd never done any of this stuff before.

All we did in tonight's class was sequence after sequence, and that is so much fun, but it was not very fun tonight because Jade kept running off. It was so annoying.

Sigh.

A few years ago, we used to go to the dog park. "Used to" being the key phrase here. During two visits in a row (TWO SEPARATE INCIDENTS), Jade was mauled by two different Boxers. Now, he holds a grudge. Me personally, I have nothing against Boxers - I think they are absolutely beautiful, and the ones that I have met, I love! However, I believe Jade is prejudiced against them, hah.

Anyway, we're finishing a jump --> jump --> tunnel --> jump --> jump --> table sequence, and this woman (who had just arrived for Linda's next class, I think) is standing along the outer edge of the field with her large, unneutered male Boxer. Jade sees the dog, breaks our sequence, bolts for the corner of the fence, and is all snarling and barking his big deep "mean" bark. Then, he wants to get to this dog so badly that he trots along the edge of the fence, finds the gate, pushes it OPEN and runs past Patrick, runs through the other dogs in our class and gets to the woman and her Boxer. Once he gets there, he dances around and both dogs show no aggression toward each other. All this time, I was yelling, "JADE! COME! JADE, COME!" and so on and so forth. I went after him, and when Jade got out of the fence, Patrick ran after him and grabbed him after he had danced around the Boxer for a couple seconds.

Okay, I know nothing major happeneed, but I was extremely annoyed by this, especially since he had been so distracted all class long! Ugh. I just did not have fun tonight. He seriously acted like he had never seen any of those obstacles before! Whereas two weeks ago, when we had our very first class since NOVEMBER, he ran a sequence sooo nicely! It was just ridiculous.

I didn't make a very big deal about it, I don't want him to remember class as me being frustrated with him. But still...

Blah.

Hopefully next week will be better.




On a lighter note, the evening itself was gorgeous! It is quite warm and hazy (so pretty!) with a gentle breeze. The sky has been overcast with the sun shining through some thin clouds, so as the sun has been setting, it was getting pinker and purpler... just so pretty.