Anniegirl Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Annie failed to do a single complete run at Carlton Towers at the weekend , it is so frustrating as she is perfect in training even with two lanes. There have been alot of comments on the flyball forum recently about dogs who interfer and I can understand their opinions, but what else can we do but keep trying her when she is fine even in the warm ups. We had some competitions at the end of last season where she didn't do a single thing wrong so we know she can do it and she loves it so much (as do we) so don't want to stop. At the weekend we had one race against another one of our teams so we did some warm ups with her with one of their dog in the other lane - perfect, but in competition she ran across even though their last dog had completed so it was an empty lane We are hoping we can go back down to Peter and Delias for a weekend in the next couple of weeks and do some refresher training because at the moment we have no dogs that do flyball so there isn't really that much point in carrying on unless we get it sorted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbas_mum Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Really sorry to hear this, it is so frustrating when it all goes wrong again and again. No suggestions really - just hope she gets her head straight again soon so you can all start to have more fun again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gooster Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Bummer. It's so frustrating when you know they can do it, but they just mess up whenever they are in a competition. Is it a particular point in the run where she interferes? Such as when the dog in the other lane is ahead of her? If it is, have you tried creating that set up at training, by letting one completely bombproof dog go first, and then letting Annie go when she is likely to get it right, and going from there? It is hard when she does it right at training though to try and correct it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anniegirl Posted April 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 There does not seem to be any logic to why and when she interfers. At training last night we had two lanes, and did everything we could think of to distract her, calling her, playing with a tennis ball, having a dog of lead playing and she didn't put a foot wrong, perfect runs every time and keeping up with our first team dog We had dogs going before her, after her, and at the same time, and different box loaders and she was perfect. She is just so frustrating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waggi Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 its just the same with our Meg she is an incredablly nervous dog and terrified of everything at the end of last season she was running confidently out of netting then she got attacked badly by another dog in a starters competition - we carried her out of the ring and put her in a team members van in a dark crate with pigs ears and rescue rem its been a very long winter and at times we have thought maybe we should just say no but she does love it so much its just she lacks confidence shes done so well in the starter comps so far this year and her confidence is growing again - i started runing her without netting and she was doing so well then last week for no reason she kept stopping and running out of the last jump i find it all so fustrating with her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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