We're beginning agility lessons at Paws for Applause, which allows
puppies into their beginner class and scales things down for them. Met
last night with Bonnie, the owner and was very impressed with her
facility. She requires all dogs (and handlers 
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to come be evaluated by her before beginning classes and she was very
complimentary about Lizzie. We did a bunch of different stuff- began
working on a send-away to a target, calling the dog to 'heel' (which is
different in agility than obedience, obviously) positions to the left
and right side of me after sending her to the target, a tiny jump
(2"!), and a short tunnel. I was most impressed by Bonnie's great job
of 'clicking' people- she was EXCELLENT about telling me when I'd
gotten something right. I'm a klutz and my timing isn't great- she was
very encouraging about telling me when I got it right- AND what I could
do to improve further.
Lizzie seemed to really enjoy it- she was active and engaged the entire
time, and Bonnie did a great job of keeping things moving along so that
we didn't spend too long on any one thing. Our first class is on
Thursday and I'm really looking forward to it. Lizzie's papillon
boyfriend Monarch is in that class, and Bonnie is getting a BC pup of
her own in a few weeks who will, I think, also be in there. It was a ton of fun and I can't wait for our first 'real' class on Thursday!