Category: Training

  • Clicker Training Monday

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    I don’t work on Mondays, so I’ve been making a point to find some time to do some clicker free-shaping with the dogs. I say dogs collectively, I actually mean Kim and Dylan. Mollie doesn’t understand clicker training. I can teach an old dog new tricks, but she was introduced to clicker training late in…

  • Tactical Waits

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    Dylan and I are trying a new approach with waits. Or at least, I am. I haven’t outright told Dylan about it, it’s more of a sneaky tactic type thing. Dylan’s wait has gone right out of the window in the past 6 months, although he’s always had a shufflebum wait. I’m not very good…

  • Wandering

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    I feel like I should be posting something, but I really have very little to blog about at the moment! We are unexpectedly having January off from competitions (flyball and agility), which I’m not too bothered about; I had planned to take a month off somewhere, and January is as good as any! Also, it’s…

  • Flyball Training, New Year New Games

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    The guys were rocking flyball training today. We’d already arranged to do some Starter/Puppy training this morning, and Kim had long-since being volunteered as Stooge Dog, but our tournament tomorrow has unfortunately been cancelled. So the whole gang got to come and play! The Starters did very well, we still have a lot of work…

  • First Training of 2011

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    I did not stick to my well-thought out resolutions. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that. I had some lovely courses to work on that were well adaptable for all the different levels of the dogs, and would give Dylan some jump workouts and some Aframe practise, which were my…

  • Training with a Plan

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    I actually had a plan for training this week. I know that every trainer I admire advocates having a training plan in advance, and that going and messing around on the equipment doesn’t actually achieve anything. I know this, and yet a lot of the time, I like just messing about running silly courses. (I…

  • Enter Stage Left

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    I’ll admit, yesterday’s photo was completely staged. Dylan’s just not smart enough to read a magazine. Actually, (don’t get too excited, Dylan really isn’t that smart!) it was a staged shot. I haven’t done many staged shots of the dogs, unless you count the biscuit shoot, and I really don’t. Mentioning that is just an…

  • Happy Training

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    Kim was rocking training this week, she was so happy to be back! She’s skipped a few weeks as I’ve had both Jet and Dylan to run, and there just isn’t enough time to let Kim play. But it’s not like Kim is learning anything new at this stage of her agility career, it’s just…

  • Where we need to be

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    In my last post, I said ” … I think Dylan could win out of Grade 5 this winter, but I think we would both be overfaced in Grade 6 at the moment, we aren’t ready to move up.” Dylan will be 5 in April. I hope he gets to keep running agility for another…

  • Mid Week Philosophies

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    Feels like it’s been a slow week. Training went well on Tuesday, and I continued to try and make a bigger point of properly rewarding Dylan. This is such a basic thing, but because Dylan is always happy to continue after a quick toy-throw or verbal positive reinforcement, I get lazy. Kim would not let…