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To: HairOfTheDog
I wouldn't fit inside the tunnel -- it's only 22-24 inches in diameter. We squished it up short, threw his leash through and push/pulled hiim through. He didn't like it one bit! Anticipating that I would have this problem, I had put a couple of treats in there before class when the teacher wasn't looking. Other dogs went in and wouldn't come out! LOL. I knew what they were doing!

On our thir try, he went throug when a man pushed him hard rom the rear, the teacher blocked his escape, and I pulled him through. However, I expect the same problem next week.

Otherwise he's great! Terrific on the see-saw, outstanding with all the jumps, good on the weave, excellent on the pause table. But the tunnel freaked him out. I wish that he had watched all the other dogs go through, but he was fascinated by a female German Shepherd that he knows outside of class, and he couldn't take his eyes off her -- paid no attention to all the other dogs performing. The Shepherd was coming right behind us, so he was still going through the obstacles when she was doing the tunnel. He really wanted to know when he was going to get a chance to play with his friend!

I need a tunnel to practice at home, I think. It's just finding an affordable one that is the problem.

43 posted on 09/14/2002 5:29:55 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
LOL! - Actually, if it was just the first week, I bet he does get better in the next couple tries.

I worked on the "through" practice with a few big cardboard boxes taped together with a blue tarp draped over the end of it and taped on...

Such a flimsy contraption didn't last long, but it got her to where she would go through a blind tunnel with the tarp on the end... a few days.
44 posted on 09/14/2002 5:35:05 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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