Category: Training

  • Breathe Easy

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    So, doing the list of what Rio is doing at 12 weeks actually made me breathe a little easier. I’ve been worried I’m not doing enough with her, but when seeing it all written out I feel like we’re doing ok. She’s only been here 2.5weeks, we’re fitting everything in. Her 14-days waiting for the…

  • 12 Weeks

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    Just notes so I remember what stage we were at! Rio believes in early to bed, early to rise. Current wake up time is 5am, far too early. Bedtime between 7:30-8:30pm. She can do Sit, Paw, and Down on command. Luring left turns as she’s showing more aptitude for the right side at the moment…

  • Training & Thoughts

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    Fun training session this week. We’ve spent a lot of time this month trying to get everyone to pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses so we have things to work on over the winter. So far everyone has something different to work on! This week was our “test week” on big spacey courses, getting the dogs…

  • Training Day

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    We had a lovely training day on Saturday with Natalie Mitchell. I’m increasingly picky with who I train with, but I’ve known Nat for a long time (and Kai is Dylan’s half sister) so I know how she trains and handles. There are some “local” trainers that I avoid, in some cases simply because I…

  • Neglecting the Blog

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    I haven’t posted in forever, oops! Partly because my External Hard Drive died (after 2 months, I hate you Seagate), so I’ve spent lots of time trying to recover all my photos and so on from all over the internet. Partly because we haven’t really done anything new or interesting! I have a training day…

  • Training: Jumping Woes

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    Dogwalk was variable. Check box on independent, because it always has been, and I really did push this to extremes this week running all over the place and in every direction. But independent doesn’t mean it’s the same speed every time. Sometimes it is fast, sometimes it is slow, and this does not seem to…

  • Flyball Training

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    We worked very hard with Dylan at training this week. He is getting more confident changing into Roi, but he’s not foot perfect. Neither am I; it’s very hard to work on perfecting the change when Dylan sometimes “flinches” (throws in an extra short stride just before the line). I’m between 1-3ft off on my…

  • Long Summer

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    Excellent flyball training this past weekend, all the dogs worked extremely hard. Dylan still isn’t comfortable running with Norah but she’s not in his team this weekend so I am hopeful that he’ll be relaxed and happy about being in the ring. Our official complaint to the BFA regarding the incident at Swallownest has been…

  • Weaves

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    We had fun with weaves at training this week. He did so well on the Wicked Weaves course at the weekend, but there were no really difficult entries and I was able to stay with him the whole time, but it reminded me that we did need to work a bit more on our weaves!…

  • Flyball Training

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    I love Wednesday training at the moment. Only a handful of us can make it mid-week but it gives us chance to work on things that we don’t have time for otherwise. Dylan looks amazing at the moment, I’m so relieved that he has remained happy and positive about flyball. His boxturns were great this…