Which class for which dog?

[Laurelin]

Second guessing myself. I was thinking of doing tricks class with summer and distractions class with Mia. Mainly because last year summer did distractions class and Mia tricks.

Now I'm thinking maybe I should put them in the same classes as last year?

With Mia I feel like her drive is slipping in agility. We have great moments then days where she seems to tell me to go to hell. She eats stressy in certain situations and while I know she needs practice I'm not sure if it wouldn't hurt us long term to push her as hard? I'm not really concerned about trialling her or not, just playing.

Summer on the other hand I'd like to compete wih this year and she looooves agility so shed probably have more fun. Mia got a ton out of our tricks class. I think for her it was stress free and just fun. Trainer said we could repeat and just do other tricks. Then I could work on agility in class and at home to try to build drive? I've thought about quitting agility with her but our of the last 6 classes, she's been super fun and fast at 5 and stressy at our one indoors. So we are making progress since November.

 

[Elrohwen]

I kind of like the idea of repeating the classes they were in. Distractions would be helpful for Summer since you want to trial her, and tricks would be fun and low stress for Mia. I always find that working on distractions is fairly stressful (at least for me), because it's training the dog to not follow their instinct and to listen to you instead. Of course, the goal is to make the dog less stressed about the distractions over time, but if you really want to keep it low key for Mia for now, the tricks class sounds better. Maybe it will help boost her confidence and you can apply that back to agility classes.