Hellooooo waistline !!

We can fianlly see a waistline !! Dare is not longer completely round - it seems the hours of hiking, swimming and chasing are starting to have some effect ( I was beginning to wonder if they ever would !) I can def feel his ribs now instead of them being buried beneath a layer of chub !

He has been a very good boy and I road tested him offlead at agility (with his muzzle on) with strangers (Sharon Ang Sibylle and Aileen - cant much stranger than those bunch!!! :o) and he was really very good . He loves Sharon as if he has always known her - he was a bit bad with Aileen and was happy to eat her treats but decided she was NOT allowed to try and touch him - tee hee !

Dare's agility training has begun (i think the chances of me letting him offlead in a field full of strangers is unlikely but he will get trained the same as the others just coz i like training !) He has now got a nice sit wait, and a good down. He already had some idea about jumps as the staff at the kennels took him a couple of times to agility on a saturday. Cant ever see him making full height he is the most uncoordinated dog I have had - he fell off the hedge this morning because he had no idea where his back legs were !
We have begun weaving 2x2 - its the first time i have used this method so we are learning this one together seems to be going well and he can totally do the 2 poles at 2 o clock and 8 o clock after one session this evening .

He is beginning to be a real pushy collie ( which is lovely to see) and is beginning to learn that demanding fuss does not always work - jumping up is his new trick which is quite cute but not something i am encouraging :o) His confidence is growing and growing off lead and he now gallops off herding the others . We have a GSP staying at the moment and Rowan and Dare have become great friends and seem to find running huge laps of the fields as a very rewarding behaviour ??!!

So the boy is doing well to be honest i forget he has any issues a lot of the time - we so rarely have visitors or meet anyone on a walk that i can quite happily pretend he is normal !! Although i will begin to address his meeting and greating of people next month when he is even more settled.
The poor boy is shut downstairs with all the other dogs (of course not Lace!!) as they stink of cow muck after chasing around Harvey's fields ! he is doing his best 'dog in kennels' look from the other side of the baby gate :o)

Have run out of things to write now and i am sure i was going to put something else in this update !!!

Thanks for reading
Anne and Dare x