Sca got it right at flyball

We have to share racing lights with other jurisdictions - Farmtek dog agility system, pretty expensive and they are also a lot of effort to set up and maintain so really only used in comps. Last comp we got them back from Sydney and they werent working properly which was a pain in the butt.

But the line stewards also have a stop watch in case the lights fail. Its the challenge when you are doing line steward to get your time to match the ETS. At training and demos we just use stop watches. It helps to have someone at the start line to watch the cross overs and signal the distance though so you can adjust your release times. Being too far apart is a bigger problem than early cross overs so its better to have someone watching, all a ETS can tell you is you crossed early, not by how much. Mind you its great if you can record the time, too hard to do stop watch and crossovers at the same time.
 
Sca actually did some light passing last night :winkgrin: He did miss once but I will take the credit as I was letting him start toward Dusty (the other dog) then arc him to the run and let go. Well I didn't arc him enough so he did a cheating run skipping every jump. He was also trying to cheat coming back so they set up a barrier, sneaky Sca decided fine I will get the ball going the other way and cheat that side :rolleyes2: He does continue to improve now I just need to get registered with uFli (having issues) so we can run in August
 
Oh and early one we had 3 dogs and guess which one was barking :o The Chocolate Lab Sadie barked some but Sca went wild once the other dogs ran. I remember when I had the quiet dog...

When the team dogs came in yep still one dog barking....

Not the BCs nope, not the Labs nope, not the little dog, not the King Charles.... yep the Border Sheltie
 
That is actually really fantastic he is barking at the running dog! It means a) he is watching the other dogs run and b) he is enjoying himself so much he wants to have a run too.
 
*Caro said:
That is actually really fantastic he is barking at the running dog! It means a) he is watching the other dogs run and b) he is enjoying himself so much he wants to have a run too.
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To a degree but he LOVES to chase or be chased so the odds of him chasing the other lane the first time is real high. He drives the two BCs crazy as they want to chase the tennis ball and he wants to chase them (and gets in the way of the tennis ball :lol:)

He has improved a ton though and we are now signed up with U-Fli and the instructor is entering us for August
 
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