Crazy Dylan
Dylan is slowly beginning to go crazy! I’m beginning to get an insight into why people don’t recommend Border Collies to “normal” people, and I also didn’t realise how much like a normal Border Collie Dylan really is. I’ve always thought he was very laid-back and relaxed for a Border Collie, but then again ever since we’ve had him he’s been working on tricks, learning flyball, learning agility, and more recently competing at. Take away all those things and he reverts into crazy-land.
Yesterday he found the cone-pile. My dad and sister coach athletics, so we have a lot of these. Dylan thinks it is a pile of cones stacked up for his amusement. He spent two and a half hours on Wednesday playing with one of these cones. (Note: it no longer resembles in anyway a cone.)
So yesterday I got the mini-dogwalk out, thinking we could maybe work on fixing that creepy contact business. The craziness transferred, and we didn’t just get non-creepy contacts, we got “let’s clear the dogwalk in one stride and nail the 2o2o most times but not every time because I’m really really excited and sometimes my legs just get away from me”. I’m not used to highly-motivated dogs, somebody send help!
We actually had a very productive session, once those self-releases had been corrected. One or two were a little creepy but it seems to be relative to my position to the final contact. If I’m alongside there’s no problem, or recalling directly over (but how often do you get to do that in a competition!?), but if I’m too far behind and haven’t left a toy in front he does have a tendency to get a little creepy on the way down. Must work on this!
5 Comments
Lora
Oh goodness… if it isnt til next weekend, I wouldnt even worry about it! I thought it was tomorrow and that would have been questionable. Have fun and I know they are going to do great!
Emily
LOL @ the cone – we so need a video of this :-p
Hope the KC is gone *crosses fingers*
Vicki aka Giruff
fingers crossed everyone is through the worst now!
do they not have a 21 day ‘rule’ in flyball like they do agility & obedience?
Katie
Vicki, the general concensus is that dogs need to be KC free for 7-10days and not have been in contact with any dogs that have KC.
The big problem with flyball rather than agility or obedience is that the dogs share balls, a box and run very closely to each other when changing over. If they are at all contagious, it’s more than likely to spread to other team members :(.
It’s a bit of a predicament.
Leanne
But as KC is airborne none of that means it’s more or less likely to be caught by the other dogs. If they’re going to catch it, they’re just as likely to by standing in the same room or the same field.