The other reason it wasn't fun is that we worked on the teeter, and Watson had a panic attack. He has worked with it a couple times, just baby steps putting his feet on, but has never heard it slam down as another dog ran across, since the others were doing baby steps too. This time, two of the dogs were advanced enough to do it normally and he didn't like the banging. The first couple times he was fine, startled, but took a treat and recovered. As it kept going on, he got more and more panicked.
I'm not really sure what to do about it the next time we work teeters. We left the arena and were as far away as we could be in the barn without being outside, and he was still flailing at the end of the leash each time it banged down. He wouldn't take treats, which is so unusual for him. He's always been a little uncomfortable with loud noises, but just a startle and then back to normal, never this panic. I think the fact that it kept repeating really got to him. And for the record, he's heard the teeter quietly hit the ground many times and was completely unphased, so we have a place to build from, it's just hard to figure out how to work on that and I can't ask other people in class to just not run their dogs on the teeter. Yeah, just frustrating I guess. He recovered really well and rocked the weave-o-matics so I was proud of him for that.