Last night was rough. Tilda was at the vet earlier in the afternoon, so she could have been a little down from that. But, she has been getting scared the past weeks. So, I think, even if she was a little down, she was scared last night again. However, she is a good dog and did just about everything I told her to do, she even made it through all twelve weave poles very slow. :) The instructor wanted me to try to get her excited about some toys, but she wasn’t into playing with toys. If she is scared, she isn’t going to want to play. Tilda also wanted to sit as far away as she could from the other dogs. I really think that something scared her at class and now she remembers something happened there. She had to be scared because at the end of class we had a little play time for the dogs. Tilda didn’t want to play; she hid out in the tunnel. I tried playing fetch with her and she started make her excited noises about playing fetch, but didn’t really play. Even if she was a little tired from the vet, she was scared at class because before we left for class she played fetch and when we got home after class she played a little fetch, and jumped and weaved faster than she did at class. So, something had to have happened there. We have a week off because it will be the week of the fourth of July. We’ll have to see if after a week break she does any better. We only have two weeks of classes left; if Tilda doesn’t warm up to the place in the next classes we will be taking a break.
I know that agility trials will have dogs, but I know for sure that not all dogs scare her. When we were at the vet, a big lab came. I thought Tilda would get scared since it was such a big dog, but Tilda was fine. Just because she gets scared at class doesn’t mean she is going to get scared at a trial. Tilda does great at agility in the back yard, so it isn’t agility itself that scares her, it is the place where classes are.
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