We took our dog Twiggy to the fly ball class on Sunday to see if she really was trained in the sport, like the rescue shelter told us. As you know from my previous posts, Twiggy is a high-energy dog, so we didn’t think much of her pulling on the leash and trying to get into the building when we arrived, but we had a nice surprise when we went in for the class.

We were there to observe only; just to see if we wanted to join. When the dogs started practicing, Twiggy freaked out and started barking and jumping and generally became very hard to control. One of the teachers came over and went through some basic exercises and commands with her and she responded just how she was supposed to.

Then they allowed her to run through the hurdles with the other dogs. They put them on a starting block and hold them back and then let them go — the dogs go through the hurdles like a rocket! Twiggy didn’t quite get it the first time around; she went around the hurdles and greeted me on the other end wagging her tail like she had just conquered the world.

The next two times she did it perfectly, and damn fast too! We enrolled her in the classes because she just had so much fun — she wouldn’t keep quiet the whole time, she just wanted to get to the hurdles and run.

When we took her to the vet in the summer, she said a Border Collie is like a brain with legs — can’t argue with that.

Related posts:

1. The Twiggy update
2. Fostering: It isn’t just for humans
3. My dog took the site down
4. Twiggy meets Rocky Raccoon
5. The squirrels are ganging up on Twiggy
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