Shouldn't be a quitter because it's all in your head.

Last night in class, we had many time World Champ Karen Hollick as a guest student. I tried to watch and see if she did any special super champ things when she ran, but she seemed just like a regular sheltie lady who wears red, white and blue clothes. No special secret champion voodoo that I could see.

One thing though, when something didn't go quite right, she didn't do what I do. Which was to put my dog away back in the car and get an Otterpop. I was a total quitter.

Most days, when things don't go right with Gustavo, I hang in there and work through it and we are still having fun. Last night, just wasn't fun. His weave poles were weird, he was leaping contacts, and I didn't feel like I was running my dog. Something else from space. Finally, the best thing I could figure out to do was go get Otterpop.

Maybe it was all in my head.

Maybe because he had another weirdo bolting incident at work before I left for class. Out my office door and up the driveway and off the property and down the road at 100mph. For no reason that I could see. Just because he could. When that's still sitting in my head, agility seems different.

Or else something goes on all in his head.

Maybe this is all in my head. And he's just a poorly trained dog that has developed a new love of bolting and running away. And needs to be trained better.

Unless that's all in my head. And it really is what's in his head.

Probably I need to get it all out of my head. This is how it goes with us.