Practice, Practice, Practice!

Practice, Practice, Practice!
I spent the good part of an hour with Kathy working on my handling. I hesitate to practice my handling independently as I feel like I do things incorrectly. Therefore confusing my dog, so for now I have someone I trust watch me.
I worked on handling threadles and felt like I was getting a good feel for them as I progressed. My problem with threadles is I have always used an open shoulder approach of handling them (inviting her in) and have since found that Party reads…oh my, I don’t know what the method is called! For lack of better words; Iuse the “claw” or backy uppy.. any way Party reads this much better. Because of this she gives me a much nicer tight turn.
We also worked on layering obstacles for gamble purposes. Party read this very well which made me ecstatic as we have had issues with this in the past.
Kathy, Thank you for helping me simply by watching and giving me feed back.