Beanie stopped going to Agility classes two or three weeks ago as she’d got a bit huffy about the way she was being taught and refused point-blank to cooperate. She had a great teacher and in many ways Beanie was the star of the class. But a Collie she ain’t and she made it quite clear she wasn’t about to learn any Collie-type techniques and tricks. So we decided that we’d just go back to doing things the way that Beanie both enjoyed and was good at.

We had a training session at Janie’s Agility Barn this morning. I always did the handling in the past, so in an attempt to break Beanie’s bad associations with Agility, Paul took over as handler. It went very well: