Casual Saturday!

The dogs and I got a chance to attend a fun day at a local pool yesterday!  It was a great opportunity to get Aeri jumping off of a low surface (the pool deck) and in a new place in preparation for our next event. 

Dogs are poor generalizers, so making things easy in a new location can often help a dog gain confidence in their performance faster than trying to get them to jump at standard height in the new place where the setting can be intimidating, especially if there are spectators and lots of noise like at most events.

I'm hoping the extra exposure and recent practice will help prevent us from having another "Erin goes swimming" Big Air Wave. ;)