It’s beginning to look as if having a little brother at home to play with is helping to calm Beanie down and improve her concentration and attention span. On Wednesday Beanie was a lot more focused during her obedience class. The same thing happened today at agility. We took Biggles along to watch the first part of the class, so maybe Beanie was trying to impress him :)

I’m really very impressed by how well Beanie and all her classmates are doing despite the fumbling inadequacy of their handlers. It might look easy, but it really is very hard when you have a fast dog to always be in the right place at the right time to guide your dog through the course.

Beanie is now coping well with quite complicated courses involving several jumps, 90 and 180 degree turns and of course the tunnel (her favourite). She really has surprised me as I didn’t think she’d have the concentration to follow instructions. Fortunately, she enjoys it so much that she’s eager to do everything she’s told just to get to play. Also our teacher Carol is exceptionally good. So if anyone’s thinking of trying agility I recommend www.clearrunagility.co.uk

We’ll try and get some more photos and video next week. It’s getting a bit tricky now that we’ve got Biggles, but I’m sure someone will be happy to cuddle him for a few minutes while Paul takes photos.