MUNGO EATS Latin America

I just spent a night chasing my dog and trying to get him to focus for long enough to get through the agility course. He is truly NUTS!! Mungo does enjoy agility classes. He likes the equipment, with the tunnel and the A-frame topping his list of favorites. More than the equipment though, Mungo loves the other dogs. In fact, for the most part, he rips through the equipment in an attempt to go play with the other dogs.

He is so hard to focus in fact, that we decided to try him in daycare on the days that he has agility classes. So he spends ALL DAY…8-10 hours, playing with other dogs. ALL DAY!!! Class starts at 6:15pm. The first day that we put him in daycare, he was quite tired. He would even lay down when it was not his turn. He still tried to run to other dogs, but his attempts were only half-hearted. The problem was, he was so tired, his brain couldn’t think. You would ask him to jump and he would just look at you, with a blank look on his face.

The second day at daycare, he seemed to find the balance between tired and “not stupid”, and he did quite well in agility.

Now he is starting to shift back towards stupid. Today he spent 10 hours at daycare, and he was still super-charged at agility.

Why do we keep trying? The truth is, if we could get him to focus on me instead of the other dogs, he could be AMAZING…super, super, amazing. He really only has two speeds, stop and full out go!! While the other dogs in the class are slowly jumping over jumps and sauntering through the tunnels and such, Mungo screams around at full throttle. The other people in the class jog beside their dogs and have time to think about which jump comes next. If I don’t start 3 jumps in front of my dog, I am left behind.

So… we will keep trying. Maybe one day, it will all come together in this crazy dog’s head and you will see us competing….Maybe!

By the way, folks…6 days to the new puppy!! God forbid I end up with two maniacs!