Daisy Peel

And then I can go into the ring and my mind is out of the way.

and have these really good runs.

And other competitors are really good at it.

Better than me, for sure.

But that, yeah.

That's what keeps me coming back, really.

It's like, can I get to a big event again and master that?

When you really want it.

Can you have a perfect run when you want it so bad and you know that wanting it is going to make it worse?

Could be good or bad.

These days you have to be prepared to change things all the time.

So it used to be that the courses didn't really change much for the length of the dog's career.

So once the dog had the skill, this or that skill, they were pretty well set for the entirety of their career because the courses were pretty homogenous.

But now there are trends that come and go pretty quickly.

And so the dog has to know the skill really well, but

you have to find ways to teach them skills that i'm not sure how to say it but you want you want their understanding to be granular enough that you could tweak it in a small way when the nature of the skill changes on course so for example for the last couple of years on agility courses there's a skill that's been really trendy called a bypass

where there's a jump between you and the dog, and you're running this way, the dog is running this way, and they are not supposed to take the jump.

They're supposed to pass it by.

And it's called layering or bypass or whatever.

That's for the last year or so.