Training

  • Daisy,  Dylan,  Rio,  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…

  • Rio,  Training

    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…

  • Daisy,  Training

    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…

  • Agility,  Rio,  Training

    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…

  • Agility,  Dylan,  Rio,  Training

    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.…

  • Daisy,  Training

    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…

  • Agility,  Rio,  Training

    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…

  • Agility,  Flyball,  Rio,  Training

    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…

  • Agility,  Dylan,  Training

    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…

  • Rio,  Training

    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…