Category: Training

  • Contact Self-Reminders

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    This post is a self-reminder. For all that I love playing with my dogs, I need to analyse what we do and what I want for me to ever get there. Although there will be some variation from handler to handler, I think there is a fairly standard formula for “perfect contacts” (actually, for perfect…

  • Wave

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    Dylan learnt “Wave” today, which is very cute. I haven’t done much on new tricks recently but this was really easy to shape as he already knows “paw”. Kim is a bit too exuberant and just throws all her paws at me in exasperation, I’m not quick enough to click her. Must practise that! Really…

  • Boxes & FlickFlacks

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    Both Kim and Dylan were ridiculously excited to be at training this week. And I was a very good person and made myself do the 2 things I don’t really like doing, boxes and flickflacks (or snakes, serpentines, flapjacks, whatever you call them). I even set the box up with “Medium spacing”, ie. minimum spacing.…

  • Training Day

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    Dylan and I went on his first training day this weekend. I learnt a lot, Dylan focussed for almost the whole session, and we both got a lot out of what we did. Dyl was occasionally lacking in motivation but it was my fault, I was concentrating a bit too hard on what I was…

  • Timing Notes (again)

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    I did this in September after reviewing my summer season videos, and since I actually managed to remember to take my camera to training (plus a few clips from EMDAC in November/January) I now have a new set of data. How exciting! Well, not really. Dylan’s dogwalk in particular was really improving but has slowed…

  • Trick Training: Fetch My Hat

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    Well, we learnt a fun new trick today! It’s called “Fetch My Hat”, and means Kim (or Dylan, whoever is there first) takes off my woolley hat, either off my head or off someone else’s head, and gives it to me. Dylan picked it up in about 10 minutes, but he’s quicker to offer new…

  • Controversy, Blogs, Tricks?

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    I’ve been trawling about trying to find something to blog about — everywhere is quiet at the moment! No major controversies about (that I can find!) so I did think about starting one, but that seemed like an awful lot of work. I was going to blog about “Barbie Collies” following Inca’s Reserve Best of…

  • Kimba Training

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    Kim was flying last night, we had a lot of fun and some very nice runs. She always works better if she’s wound up by watching other dogs work, and hopefully now she’s moving up the levels there will be more exciting dogs for her to watch before she runs. That’s probably a very un-PC…

  • Things I Learnt Today at Flyball

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    Dylan simply cannot flyball in ankle deep mud. He doesn’t go anywhere and falls over a lot. Mollie firmly believes that Jet drops her ball, even though Jet doesn’t. Jet cannot understand why Mollie is following her. You can’t throw balls past Dylan’s head on the runback and expect him to keep facing forwards. Kim…

  • Mollie's Ears

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    MollieBaldEars is back amongst us! She had a lovely time at the vets, she get’s spoilt rotten with cuddles whilst she’s there. Her ears are now all clean and shiny and sadly hairless, so she looks hilariously bad. Possibly as a result of being laughed at so much, she went missing (presumably escaped and roamed…