Rejection
Recently Vito has really been showing me how far he has come in obedience and agility. He's been the club a good handful of times now since my return and has always been ready to work in just about 5 minutes. It's felt good. My dog can do things!
But he keeps me humble too. Spring is here with all its new smells as well as my recent planting of the agility equipment. Yesterday was especially gorgeous out and I wanted to work with Vito on our reward sequence in agility. Mainly watching his ball being put down, happy and focused walking away to the startline, then choosing to shove his head back through the leash and going to sit in front of his ball.
Vito had different plans. Plans of sniffing the spring air, and probably munching on some sweet grass too. Rejected me and my silly games. I could have easily brought out the ball, teased him with it, and got him obsessive over it in just a manner of seconds. But that wouldn't have accomplished much of anything.
Oh well. There's always another day!
Boring video of a dog who did not want to work. Usually I don't leash up during acclimation time, but I wanted to actually use the leash in the work I had planned!
