I know it was one of my New Year Resolutions to do more agility and go to competitions with Oscar but that idea has hit an enormous bump in the road, one which I don't think we will be able to get over any time soon.
While I love doing agility with Oscar, he doesn't feel the same way about it, at least when he isn't in the comfort of his own home. He does enjoy agility at home but that's really the beginning and the end of the story. I cannot get him to focus at agility training and as a result we haven't been in a very long time and I have tried to get him to do a simple low jump in the field but Oscar wanted nothing to do with it, and the field is a regular place for us to walk (daily right now).
I thought about going to a fun show next month but after some though,and advice from some petforumers, I have decided that its best not to.
And after even more though I have decided to give it up all together. Maybe not forever but definitely for a while.We might still do some at home for fun, there is no way I am going to let all that stuff I built go to waste, but for the time being and for the foreseeable future we wont be doing any fun shows or going to training classes or anything.
Oscar has given me so many signs that he isn't comfortable doing it away from home, and I think it's about time that I started to listen to them, rather than just doing what I want to do, regardless of whether Oscar find it fun or not.
From now on me and Oscar will be doing much more playing, having much more fun walks, trying out some new tricks and hopefully going to some new places. I would really like to bring him to the beach and into the town more and, what I was meaning to do last October, bring him to Kennedy Park in New Ross.
I have to admit that I am just that little bit disappointed about not doing agility anymore but if Oscar isn't interested in doing it then there is so much more useful things we could be doing.
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