Wednesday, June 3, 2009

more jumping!!!

its been quite a few days since Sony's last jumoing session, we were camping since fri which although she didn't get to swim the river was pretty cold, she did romp in the woods. The last 2 days work has kept me busy. I had DR Angela take a peek at her yesterday since her back was so bad 10 days ago. I am glad cuz she wasn't all that bad, front end doing well and back end was out but no more than her usual maintenance.

I was eager to get her out and work her today, we did some collection work which she is doing nicely but I really needed her to work on extension. and Powering off her hind end. I set up 2 Jumps about 18' apart and about 16-18" high I set her back from the first jump pretty far and set a toy far past the last jump. the first few times she added in stride and didn't use herself real well. but after she gained confidence and started jumping very confident and using herself. Not sure if it was just that she hadn't done that in a while or she needed to realize her leg was not going to hurt. I gave her a break and worked the other 2 dogs and when I brought her back out she picked up where we left off I ended with her jumping both jumps at 20" :) and she did good. and I saw now stiffness or lameness, she took a dunk in the baby pool and a nice walk to cool out.
have to work tom , she sees Melanie on Fri and I am hoping to get some more training in over the weekend

Judy and Sony

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