Category: Training

  • Training Daze

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    I am feeling very productive this week (with regards to dog training. Other things, not so much). Dylan did some light work at agility last Tuesday, but I was conscious that he might be carrying an injury, so we didn’t do too much. Enough to test the waters and see what might be bothering him.…

  • Raining Again

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    Waiting on Rio to go into season at the moment. I sometimes can’t remember why I’m bothering to go through this! I’d really like her to come in any day around now, really … Ri is running super at agility, we are starting to string together our foundation work into longer sequences now. She ran…

  • Maturity

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    It’s been a busy week for Rio this week, she had a bath on Monday, agility class on Tuesday, and obedience class on Thursday! She was super at agility, we were building on the wing wrap work we’ve been doing for the past few weeks and she was excellent. The jump height is increasing (I…

  • Contact Board

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    I love this puppy, her enthusiasm is infectious. Rio is well named; life is a carnival. She attacks everything with such energy, she makes me feel energetic too. We have no ‘bad’ training sessions, we have too much fun, even if things don’t go exactly to plan. Her paw is almost healed entirely. If it…

  • Training

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    Very happy with Dylan’s agility training this week. We still have runs in competition where I have no idea what he’s thinking or why he’s acting the way he does, but that is a general Dyl-me problem, not an agility-specific problem. In terms of actual agility, it feels like we’re at our peak right now.…

  • Kamal Fernandez Seminar

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    I was supposed to go to this seminar with Katie, but she started work early so I drove down to Lincoln by myself. I got a spectator ticket as I tend to take more in that way, but I would be interested in doing a working slot in the future. I think even Dylan would…

  • Rio Contact Training

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    This was Rio’s third time on the board, and this is her whole session. She’s maybe done 10-15minutes total, at this stage? No luring, no targeting, no physical placement from me. I’m happy! I added a lot more movement in on this session, so we had a lower success rate, although I’m not particularly fussy…

  • Miss Rio, 10 Months

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    I think skipping agility class for a few weeks is a good idea. I needed to scale back a bit, and focus on getting her working attitude when we’re working together in the park, or at competitions in the exercise area, and of course at flyball training. Well, she’s always focused at flyball, it’s all…

  • Growing Up

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    Ri seems to be going through a fear period right now, which is a little weird and a little frustrating for me. She is fine with other dogs and in different situations, but has decided that all strange people are scary. She does seem to have a quick recovery time once she has freaked out,…

  • The Team

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    Felt a little bit like I had my own personal team of flyball dogs this week at Thursday training. Kim and Mollie are both back to competition next weekend in Starters with another of our older but experienced dogs, Lucy, and two of our proper Starter dogs. Mollie was so excited to be back, she…