Fast Weaves

In an effort to change it up and keep weaves interesting - today we used Gimme's breakfast for the reward.  That was 8 chicken necks.

It was hard for her to begin with, because she was so focused on breakfast that it presented a huge distraction.  I brought the yard-waste bin over and set it in a direct line with the end of the  4 weave poles, about 6 feet away and set her dish on top.  A lot of the time I leave treats in a dish at nose level to let her practice exercising self control, but didn't want to try that just now.

My goal was to do four weaves on each side.  It took her a number of tries to get it right, but when she did she got the big payoff.  I started with her better side, to make sure she could win pretty quickly.  She did it right away and then the reality that she would get a chicken neck bumped the distraction level up a few notches.  So we had 6 tries before she got it right and then I had to slow down my approach to help her.  After that she had a couple misses and then got it right again.  The last time I took her by the collar, led her up close and then pulled back as I released her for the slingshot affect.  She gave me a really fast weave and I was hooting and hollering for her.

Then we changed sides.  She immediately got one at moderate speed.  Then she did one that was accurate, but kinda slow, so I only gave her the skin from that neck.  The look she gave me was priceless.  "Only the skin...  Seriously?" The next one was faster and the last two were amazingly fast.  I got chills just seeing what she is capable of.

The neighbors likely thought I'd finally flipped out as I was hooting, hollering and dancing around the yard waving my arms in celebration.  If she weaves that fast consistently, she is going to make a lot of people very jealous.  And I'm going to soooooo love being along for the ride.

Now I'm exhausted and I need to go to work to rest up.