A Secret Mission

Back to Field Work

I love how excited Cisco gets for field work.

His obedience improves every time we do field work. I think he is understanding that in order to play, he has to do his obedience.

I did drills with him for the first time this year. First we tackled wagon wheel — something we’ve tried a few times in the past, but have lacked understanding of what was expected. Since he’d been doing really well with double marks, I figured we’d give it another go. He was much more patient while placing the bumpers. There was a bit of confusion on the first two sends on which bumper he needed to go for, but I was able to call him off and re-send to the right one. The third bumper, he got right the first time. Which resulted in a happy bumper and ending the drill. Next time we’ll work further.

We then did a couple of doubles (which he nailed). And then finished with the ladder drill. I put out 5 bumpers and did all of them. The first 2 he did well, the next two he didn’t drive out far enough and came back, before deciding to drive out to get the bumpers. The fifth he drove to much better. Next time we’ll try it with 8.