Serpentines

Last night Clover and I worked on serpentines. Serpentines are when jumps or obstacles are lined up next to each other and the dog has to go over them in a "S" like pattern, going back and forth. Since we have only been working on serpentines for a couple of weeks, we are only practicing them on jumps. Timing is critical when giving a dog directions on Serpentines. Below is an example of a serpentine...
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Clover really has to check her step when doing serpentines.

I am looking forward to spring time change so we will have more daylight to work.

The iditarod is going on now and they have a cool site, take a look. Talk about performance dogs!