Category: Rio

  • Training in the Park

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    I decided today we needed to get out and do some agility training elsewhere, so I loaded a jump, Kim, and Rio into the car. It’s finally feeling like May, no rain! No sunshine either, but it’s warm outside, enough that I can wear my crocs and give my poor feet a break. I rubbed…

  • Perfect Timing

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    Our homework paid off! I had a pocketful of treats but my plan was only to use them if necessary, but it wasn’t. Rio was much more switched on to her tug, and much more focused overall. I also realised I don’t need to be treating her every 10s when the other dogs are working,…

  • Drax May Bank Holiday #1

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    We did not have a very successful day at Drax. Mollie’s team chose to go NFC rather than withdraw after super height dog Bails got injured this week. Unfortunately this is a problem with a team consisting primarily of Veteran dogs; if any one of them gets injured, then the whole team struggles. Obviously with…

  • Fetch #1 & #2

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    After all procrastination about whether Rio would even want to play fetch, she did. I used her mini Space Hopper (her puppy present from Emma!) and she had a great time. She will fetch dead toys and will actually retrieve them, which is something she wouldn’t do until now. I definitely need to work on…

  • Reward System

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    Rio was a very good girly at training class this week, although I do have some quite major things to work on. We were training channel weaves, which Rio is very good at; she runs right through with me on both sides and varying distances ahead of her, and will pick up minor entries. It’s…

  • Sunshine

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    Finally something other than rain! Rio’s puppy training day sadly got cancelled; the high winds and downpours made being around the equipment unsafe, and I’ll admit I didn’t much fancy going out when I saw the state of the weather on Sunday morning. Hopefully we can find another training day some time soon. Today we…

  • Expectations

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    The weather has been so bad all week that our training field is flooded, once again, so no flyball training today. That’s why I haven’t been able to take any photos recently either, I can’t take the camera anywhere because it’s always raining. It’s Rio’s first training day tomorrow, I’m quite nervous. Mainly because it’s…

  • April Showers

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    Nothing but rain at the moment. I wanted to take the dogs out to Digley for a good walk today but I can’t face getting soaked yet again, so they’re having to make do with a chew instead. Despite the weather, flyball training was relatively mud-free! Dylan was excellent, I’ve been making an effort to…

  • Puppy Tugger

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    I’ve been remotivating myself this week, so Rio and I have had some specific goals to work on. Waits, and Tugging! Her wait training is going reasonably well; I find waits really boring to train which is probably why Kim doesn’t have one at all anymore, and Dylan’s has deteriorated to almost nothing. Oops. We’re…

  • Easter at Duncombe Park

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    Five runs a day on not-so-flat ground has killed me, I am going to have to get my running shoes on and do some training this summer as well. When I am not flailing around behind Dylan, I can actually handle him well. This was as much a surprise to me as to Dyl! As…