Category: Training

  • Expectations

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    The weather has been so bad all week that our training field is flooded, once again, so no flyball training today. That’s why I haven’t been able to take any photos recently either, I can’t take the camera anywhere because it’s always raining. It’s Rio’s first training day tomorrow, I’m quite nervous. Mainly because it’s…

  • Puppy Tugger

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    I’ve been remotivating myself this week, so Rio and I have had some specific goals to work on. Waits, and Tugging! Her wait training is going reasonably well; I find waits really boring to train which is probably why Kim doesn’t have one at all anymore, and Dylan’s has deteriorated to almost nothing. Oops. We’re…

  • Tired Bean

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    Very productive flyball training session today. Although we were working the dogs in each team together, we mainly worked on individual stuff. Dylan did some jump-box-6 jumps back. Which is exhausting for me but really gives him a workout! It also encourages him to chase me back; he has always come back off the box…

  • Remembering to Breathe

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    Today’s walk did not start out well. I took Dylan, Kim and Rio and stocked up on 1000 treats to reward Rio’s recall. We walked for 20minutes and Rio was appalling, barely recalling 50% of the time and haring off waaay out of sight. Cue stressed, tense owner. And then I realised what an idiot…

  • Round and Round

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    Mollie’s injury is a multiple-options kind of injury, so we’re in a wait-and-see situation right now. She has a thumbnail-sized lump in her quad, which could be a) a bruise from running into something like a stick, b) scar tissue from an old injury which has been tweaked and inflammed, or c) a lump. We’re…

  • Rio 6 Months

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    Still can’t believe the little horror is 6 months old. I also sometimes can’t believe how smitten I am with her! Even when she’s screeching in her crate for whatever reason. (And oh, there are many reasons). I had a rough check list of things that my perfect puppy would be; outgoing and driven and…

  • Rio's First Class

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    Rio attended her first Foundation Agility Skills class yesterday! She has been through a puppy-tunnel a few times, but has never seen the proper heavy duty pipe tunnel. She thought it was pretty easy though! We did a few recalls through a straight tunnel with lots of tugging, and then did some tunnel, wrap around…

  • 5 Months

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    Rio has definitely got a case of the puppy fuglies this week, she’s all legs, long body, no neck/chest, tiny head. And the ears are all over the place. Thankfully I did get one photo of her looking pretty! She’s greeting all people enthusiastically at the moment, which isn’t so good when she launches at…

  • Jumping Thoughts

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    [singlepic id=342 w=320 h=240 float=left]Rewatching Dylan’s youtube videos. There aren’t very many and they aren’t his best runs, but he looks so much smoother, so much faster. His video from Lune Valley is the last one I uploaded, 18 months ago, and the difference between then and now is just crazy. Even the runs I…

  • Rio Flyball Training (Target)

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    I promised this video a few months ago, and only just got around to converting it. Rio is 14 weeks in this video (I think!) and this was our third target session. The whole session consisted of maybe 2-3 minutes with long breaks, so 3 mins of actual training over 15-20mins. Just because a few…