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i am not stressed or even tense to be honest and i do enjoy it, but it is chaos, they have 2 classes running with about 4 trainers, the one we are in which is split in to 2 groups of 2, small dogs and medium dogs and we all alternate on the equipment etc, there are quite a few dogs, 4 in intoduction group and must be about 5/6 in the improvers group. People have no recall, the woman with me has a springer/collie cross grogeous very hyper bouncy dog that has NO recall what so ever in fact on wednesday evening it spent over half the lesson running around the field annoying everyone else, she called it and strolled around trying to get him back, the trainer with me was getting very annoyed and was telling ME not to let my dog run around and to make sure i get him back asap if he wanders, i’m sorry but beau has an excellent recall if something gets his attention and he turns i recall and he comes straight back!! and they have said NOTHING to this woman!
sorry slight rant there, anyway what i am saying is i do enjoy it and i am not stressed when i am there, i try to just get on i listen to what the woman is telling me have beau in wait then we do whatever it is we are doing, but i am constantly aware of other dogs running around us and where they are etc, but i would gain more confidence if someone would come to me and say look you are doing this completely wrong, try standing like this (showing me or moving me) like bev does…you know i have never done this before never really seen it done so to say i have NO idea is not and understatement :-\
i have spent alot of time making beau aware that i will take care of him and protect him and he has accepted that, but if i am leaving beau in a sit/drop and wait about 20 feet from where is am stood i am always watching around him as well as him to make sure nothing is gonna come up his backside unannounced :-\ i don’t think i am really making myself clear.
i do know that all problems are mine which is why i want help, i don’t know anything about agility and beau is following my lead, i have taken the role of pack manager and i feel in this situation where every week there are out-of-control dogs running around the field it is my job to look out for him, nobody will or could as nobody else can go near him :-\
anyway i am 100% sure that this is going to be even more enjoyable once i have learned what it is i am supposed to be doing. At the moment i feel i am supposed to just try and figure it out for myself ::) I need to get out more.