Tag: weaves

  • Weaves, weaves, weaves

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    Weaves! I hate starting weave training because it’s such a hassle, getting weaves and taking them round everywhere. However, I do like weave training and I like my method, it’s nothing revolutionary but it works, and it’s been adapted through a whole host of dogs so I feel reasonably confident about it now. Requires only…

  • We Can/We Can't

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    Rio did her first set of 12 weaves last week. I can confidentally say that even if I can’t train anything else, I can train awesome weaves. All my dogs have great weaves, and Rio is no exception. Her drive and action through the weaves is fantastic, she loves weaving, and she’s weaving in sequences…

  • A Plan Comes Together

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    I love teaching weaves. There’s always a part where I hate it, right around the bit where it seems like we’ve been working on them forever and nothing is happening. But then it all comes together and I remember why I love it. As you may have guessed, Rio’s weaves have clicked. She has beautiful…

  • A Long Wait

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    I don’t think I’ve ever gone a whole month without blogging before. Technically, I still haven’t, since I blog for The Phantoms and for North K9 as well, but I haven’t blogged here. My thoughts, my dogs, my blog. I spent 12 days dog- and house-sitting in Cambridge for some flyballing friends whilst they were…

  • A Mini Break

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    A mini break for Dylan, anyway. Since he’s retiring in a few months — just two shows left! — Dylan isn’t really training any more. He has all the skills he needs, and none of his behaviours are going to dramatically change over the next six weeks in time for Wilmslow. It does give me…

  • Forwards and backwards all at once

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    Not even sure that’s possible, but it feels like what’s happening! Ri is definitely back to her super-sassy self. She got some extra training today as well as her usual session. She’s working really well, her forward drive is great, she’s picking up obstacles really nicely, we need to do a bit of homework on…

  • Learning to Weave

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    I want to try and video all our sessions, mostly so I can criticize my timing, which is generally awful.

  • Things to Do at Christmas

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    Rio did her first half-course this week and I was very happy. It wasn’t pretty and it wasn’t clean, but it was awesome. I love it when things start to come together. It was also her first time out in the big-dog classes, and she was very very excited to be there. We lost a…

  • Same Training

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    I am determined to keep a record of how Rio does each week at training until she’s 12months at least, but I can’t honestly think of much to say about this week. She was very well behaved, very very tuggy focused, and generally a superstar. We did some tunnel sends and some kips at 8″.…

  • 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!…