The JOURNEY has begun! Over the past 1.5 years, somewhere in between my “real” job; teaching several agility classes a week; completely renovating a house; working to get Finnegan qualified for AKC Nationals and other life stuff, I found a moment or two to train Little Miss Darcy. Looking back over her many short training sessions, I think that, for the most part, I have practiced what I preach with her. That means that the methodology that I teach to my students is exactly what I have continued to do with Darcy.
When I am working with students, I find myself explaining things by telling what I did with Darcy and how it worked (or didn’t). And while we were far from perfect, all of those goals that I set for our first runs together, I think we met: she was focused on me, unaffected by her surroundings, squiggly and cute and bouncy and fun.
Her Novice titles are icing on the cake.
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