Training
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…
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…
Demolitian Derby
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.…
Small Dog is Small
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…
Timely Thoughts
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…
See Me Learn
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…
Dogwalks and Tunnels
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…
On We Roll
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…