Flyball!

We got a note from Katie and her mom Dawn, wondering if we were still here. We are,it's just been raining on all of mom's days off, and the days it doesn't rain, she has to go to work, so we have been hanging out in the yard and walking the neighborhood. Nothing too exciting.
Except for these Flyball lessons mom has been taking us to on Saturdays.I am not exactly "feeling it", but Maisie is really liking it. Here's how it works. You have to run down these jumps to that box thing, run up one side of it and down the other side. On your way, you pluck a ball out of this hole it comes shooting out of, cause your feets trigger it to pop out at you, then you get the ball and run back the way you came, over those jumps again. On your way back, one of your teammates starts running toward the box to get the ball. You have to be fast, cause there is another team of dogs running against your team. I think that's how it goes, anyway.
Here are some pictures of some of my class mates learning to work the box.






They are doing pretty good. they are getting all 4 feet on the box, and triggering the thing that makes the ball pop out. We haven't started having the ball pop out at us yet.
Maisie pretty much has this part figured out. As for me, well, I keep trying to make it an agility obstacle. First, I was trying to sit on the box, but that lady would lean on it so I couldn't do that, then, I tried to squeeze between the box and that barrier, and jump over that little piece of wood, but that lady kept putting her foot there. So, now I am working on the "practice box", not the real box, and I am supposed to run up it from the right side, make a turn on it, and come down on the left side. Here I am at the "practice box/ramp" Look how thrilled I am!





Here is Maisie a couple of weeks ago at the "practice box/ramp" I told you, she likes this stuff!



There are some jumps to this Flyball stuff, and that part isn't so bad. I like jumps. This bull terrier is in my class - he is deaf, so his person is teaching him with hand signals - we think that is pretty cool. He is having a lot of fun learning this.





We practice 2 dogs going past each other over the same jump because you are not supposed to stop and "visit" BOL!



Here are those jumps I was telling you about. I didn't even need to practice this part! The baby gates are there so we learn to stay "in the lane"



And, look at this would you.. Here is Maisie, running down the lane as fast as her legs will go! Mom has a treat all ready for her. You go, sis!



Mom says I should keep trying to learn this Flyball thing, cause it's good brain work, if nothing else. Right now, I am just looking forward to this agility class I have next week.