Finally progress with Indi!

Today we went to flyball training and had so much fun! Ernie did fantastic and was going and getting the ball from the third jump! I was so pleased with him! He had a great run around the field, and had great fun playing in the stream behind the field! We also went on a walk around the field with two of the little ones that go to flyball and Lily a cute little working cocker spaniel who is the mum of Forest, my nan's sprocker spaniel! I got Ernie jumping over Lily, jumping over the little one's arms and standing on there back! They loved it, and it was good for Ernie to practice his jumping over another dog trick with a dog he didn't know and building his confidence around children. Ernie is a very strange dog, he absolutely adores some children and others he is not a big fan of! When he was a puppy and I was at a flyball competition I was watching the flyball when I turned and a little boy was giving Ernie cuddles and Ernie was wagging his tail like mad and giving him kisses all over! When I sometimes take Ernie to the school to pick my little brother up he sometimes just stands there wagging his tail waiting for a child to come and give him a cuddle! Sometimes if the child is a bit over the top, loud and scary he is a bit wary so it was a good experience for him to work with children! It was also so fantastic to have a dog that I could trust around Lily and the little ones! This time last year I wouldn't have trusted him off lead around Lily, he has come so far!
I also took Indi, as you probably guessed from the title! He had one incident at the beginning of training where he went mad at a staffie, but after that he was really good. He did however start on Ernie at one point, so I have a lot of work to do this winter. I let him off a lot more than before though, and he also had great fun playing in the stream and playing fetch! At the end of flyball when everyone is clearing away all the friendly dogs are usually let out to have a run around and play (it's complete madness as there are dogs running everywhere!). I have always let Ernie join in and he loves it, chasing all the Border collies and its also great socialisation. Well the last time I had let Indi off, it had been this time last year and he had had a few leaf issues. Today he was actually really good with the leaves, he got a bit distracted at some points but he didn't go deaf like he did last year. Last year, he ran around chasing every leaf that blew and he wouldn't come back at all. It was a nightmare. So today we did it at the end, but of course he had to wear a muzzle. He wasn't too happy about the muzzle, but it was well worth it. He barked at Millie the GSD but once he realised he couldn't do anything and that the other dog wasn't going to hurt him he just sniffed her. He then didn't attack any other dog once, and he was in the centre of lots of BC's, a GSD, Kez's brother, Ernie and all my nan's dogs minus the two girlie collies. He sniffed the other dogs and was really well behaved. I was so pleased! Hopefully if we keep doing this he will get more confident around other dogs and we will get to the point where he can go off lead around other dogs without a muzzle! We still have a LONG way to go, but we are now finally starting to make good progress.
Well no new photo's, I forgot to take my camera =(.