Spryte - on her way to Champion
| "Spryte finished up her pre-agility class last week, the total star of course. She is SO enthusiastic, I just LOVE it. She really LOVES doing the obstacles -- she TEARS through the tunnel, strains to get to the little baby planks and table and ANYTHING she sees, but also pays VERY nice attention to me when I ask. She is incredibly operant -- constantly looking for stuff to do whether it's hop up on a chair, jump onto a big box at the edge of the room.... she's just a BLAST!!! " |  |
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"Of course I
rarely nix anything she does, because everything she does is SO cute!!"
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| May 13, 2002
Believe it or not, sometimes it can be difficult for someone who teaches agility for a living to actually have the time and place to train their own dogs! Well, today was my birthday and my classes were cancelled due to rain. |
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| I was
disappointed because I'd been running Spryte in an Advanced Beginner class
sandwiched between two classes I was teaching for Hilltown Hounds in
Shelburne, MA. I very much wanted to work her because she's SO much fun!
So my friend Lynn and I decided to go over to our agility club training ring half an hour away (where classes had also been cancelled) and run our dogs outside in the wet, pouring rain. Spryte had a ball, she could have cared less about the non-stop downpours! |
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| Best of all -- she
offered me a FULL set of straight up weave poles in the pouring rain! We'd
been working weave-o-matics and channel weaves and she'd caught on
amazingly, but I sure didn't expect her to nail a full straight-up set
like that. I was so excited and happy, and proud. She gave me the best
birthday present, ever!
-Elise Paffrath |
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