Oh, I forgot to tell you ..... Tilly failed her first attempt at silver *insert dissapointed frown*. No, I was impressed with her actually. The first go as always involved her acting like a pillock and 'doodle-dashing' everywhere. The second was FAR better. She was focused and fast. Everything was going so well until we got to the dog walk and the monkey jumped off the end. No amount of me shouting 'WAIT' helped. But, she finished a whole course with no dropped poles or wrong obstacles. And I know that in a competition the missed contact would only mean 5.0 faults. Only 2 dogs passed from our group, and only those 2 and Tilly managed to finish the whole course correctly, so I was pleased with her for that! Please forgive my poorly drawn example of the course:




I've started to teach her to 'touch' a target with her nose, which she has picked up really easily. I then put it at the bottom of the stairs and got her to 'touch'. I'm going to work on this at training on Monday using proper contact equipment, but I think it's clicked now!! We get our second attempt at silver in April, so plenty of time to practise and perfect them!