Category: Training

  • Positive

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    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 in action. We’re worked through the Take a Break exercises and she’s already improving in…

  • Failure to Launch

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    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 tuggy, and ran all the sequences really well. Then she shut down and I lost…

  • Things to Do with Daisy

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    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 Daisyface: More clicker training! Some offered object interaction would be nice. Ball obsession work (my…

  • Reconsiderations and Theories

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    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 many victims of PTC… yup you guessed it, Pressure To Compete. I have seen two…

  • Demolitian Derby

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    Rio was utterly wild at training this week. Since we have a lot of people on holiday at the moment, our final session was very quiet, so I brought Rio and Dylan down to the arena at the same time. Mistake! Apparently watching Dylan (or me running Dylan?) is way too exciting for Rio. When…

  • Small Dog is Small

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    Daisy is settling in well. She is very much like an 8 week old puppy in some ways, rather than 8 month. There is so much she has never learnt, even very simple things like walking on a lead. She now understands that doing something cued = food, which is progress! Her resource guarding continues,…

  • Timely Thoughts

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    Denise Fenzi has a timely article up on motivators and motivation, which has left me thoughtful. This is a somewhat tangential post. Rio worked well for treats at our extra session at the arena this week, but she wasn’t fully engaged in the game. I had a mixture of food and a treat bag toy.…

  • See Me Learn

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    Rio is continuing to surprise me at flyball training. She was introduced to the hit-it board for the first time this week, and was pretty fab. We initially introduce the dogs gently and don’t ask for a turn, just build their confidence and see how they adapt to the board. Rio had a couple of…

  • Dogwalks and Tunnels

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    We did lots of dogwalk work at training this week! I had three things to work on in our classes; dogwalk, weaves, and long-jump. For our dogwalk training, I planned a similar set up to his very bad run at Lincoln and he refused again, so I think we can conclude that the tunnel under…

  • On We Roll

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    Rio is still bored and still full of herself. She had her stitches out 10 days ago and she’s in full coat-blowing mode; seems to be her stress response to anesthetic/being left at the vet, since she did this after stitches in her paw as well. Trick training is keeping her mildly entertained. We’ve got…