We've been working on nothing much but staying out of the kitchen and stays for a few days. Neither going brilliantly but some progress being made. She can stay FAIRLY well when she's not In The Game but if I'm holding a treat and she's been working, she really, really needs to do something to prove she's thinking.

Yesterday was her beginners agility class again, and more fun. It took a few minutes to get into the building as she was eager to be there and had trouble remembering the Lazy Leash. Once in, she was great. She went over a very low teeter for the first time and it didn't bother her. Ran through weave channels with enormous enthusiasm, and raced through a tunnel to a target. In the second half, she was introduced to the collapsed tunnel (which wasn't collapsed but held open by one of the instructors so she could get used to it). She ran itthree times before we moved on to something else. The fourth time I went past it, I was thinking about something else for a fraction of a second and she went through it without anyone holding it. I would have called her back when I saw her going, but calling a dog back when she's going through this thing is almost guaranteed to get her tangled in the cloth and scare the dickens out of her. One-way only! Anyway, she was successful and thought nothing of it.

Finally she tried the A-frame (just a bit lower than this one). She was a bit hesitant the first time, tiptoeing over it and stopping once to look back and ask if she was doing what she was supposed to, but after that she flew. Throughout the class, I was almost always able to send her out ahead of me or leave her while I led out in front of her, or go off to the side and have her commit to the obstacle without me "babysitting" her. Nice.

I made good use of the Level 4 Focus behaviours - asking her to Look where she's going to go before I sent her. She was so good at it I had trouble not jumping up and down and shouting "That's Level FOUR! That's Level FOUR!"