DABAD: Passing Through Time
The topic is aging, in case you didn’t guess. I dithered about writing about aging in dogs, but I think that’s a well covered topic so far. I have been very lucky with both my retirees; I got to decide…
Flyball Training
Flyball is a lot of fun at the moment. We’re focusing on individual skills work rather than teams; this is mainly because our dogs all need skills work, but also partly because not all our dogs are team-ready yet, and…
Happy Birthday Beanie
This crazy little munchkin is two years old today. She is currently sulking because she sliced her pad a week ago (just like one year ago), and so she’s on restricted exercise and continual bandages (which she continually eats). She’s…
UKA Sutton Weavers
This show was really for Rio, who obviously sliced her pad and therefore couldn’t go. Next year, she’s wrapped in cotton wool pre-Champs. Very very nice show, great setup at one of my favourite flyball venues, Sutton Fields. The ring…
Positive
I should probably stop late-night-blogging, I’m not sure it’s that coherent. Since I finally realised that Rio’s issues are threshold related, so I went back and re-read Control Unleashed, and immediately felt better. I formulated a plan, and it’s already…
Failure to Launch
Really struggling with Rio these days, when it comes to training. Agility on Tuesday started out really well, she ran 4-5 times on short, focused sequences where she needed to respond to handling well. She was great! Super focused, super…
Things to Do with Daisy
Miss Daisy is definitely finding her feet. She’s such a puppy! I’m getting to know her better and we had our first play session today with just us, no toys or treats. Things I want to do this week with…
Judging
I judged at Dig It’s club competition this Friday, my first “judging appointment”! It was actually a lot of fun, but also exhausting, and it was only a 2hr stint. Judges, I have a new found appreciation for your skills.…
Reconsiderations and Theories
Theories: http://chaosinagility.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/if-onlys-have-tos-and-what-nots.html I do love it when bloggers post about something which is both relevant and timely. I love Alett’s blog and she posted this today: Back to the point linked to a recent post, I have sadly seen many…
Evaluation
Ri did one and a half runs at Empingham, and then I quit for the weekend. She wasn’t focused, wasn’t working, and was going through a classic displacement and calming signals routine during her run(s). This blog is going to…