Caro
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Enter Diva the daredevil.When we started the class the instructor tried a new method of teaching the teeter. He had it at full height and the pause table under the high end. Diva did fine and would have flown off if not on lead. So many of the other dogs were scared so they went back to the old way. At the low level Diva just flies across it and she is off the other end before she really knows it moves. I did tons of wobble board work with her as a pup and she likes to make things go bang.
Last week, she got away from me and went up and down the teeter 3 times and across the dog walk before I stopped her.I don't want her to get hurt or scared and I don't want to slow her down. I did that with Justice and he never sped up again. But I just have an images of her flying off the teeter when it is at full height. Should I teach her to down on the end? Any suggests.
Thats exactly what Tully has done. She has gone so fast the teeter has not had time to tip and she has gone flying off the end with it still in the air!
Being light it takes more of an effort to drop the end. If she is too close to the end when it tips she can be bounced right off it when it hits the ground. On the instructors recommendation we taught her to tip it before she got to the contact end and then she runs off when its down. It slows her down a bit but atm a slower sheltie is better than a flying sheltie. Maybe as she gets more experience she will be less of a daredevil.