The last several sessions, Lightning has had no incidents of keep-away on his returns. The last couple of sessions, I’ve been running Laddie on short versions of the same setups I’m running Lightning on. Laddie is not completely healed from his surgery, but he craves training so much, and these short setups don’t seem to be slowing his healing.

So, for example, three days ago, Lightning ran alone, a total of a dozen triples, 36 retrieves. That was a bit much at those distances. But the last two sessions, I alternated Laddie and Lightning, so that each dog only ran six triples, and with breaks in between.

As I mentioned, Lightning is getting a variety of handlers and retrieval articles. We also randomly alternate throwing to both sides and running him from both sides.

Here’s a video from a few days ago. Annette is taking our video, Peter is handling, and Liza and I are throwing a double.