{"id":20,"date":"2007-04-17T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T13:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/archives\/20"},"modified":"2007-04-17T15:40:55","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T13:40:55","slug":"dylans-blog-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Dylan&#039;s Blog &#8211; April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather has cooled down a bit so Dylan and I have been topping up on our training outdoors. We&#8217;ve cracked target training &#8212; he runs to the target and downs on it whilst touching it with his nose, which is exactly what I was looking for! After a long discussion with various people (part of which I alluded to way back in September, but never went into much detail over) I decided to go with the 4-off position for the dogwalk and A-Frame, as found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agilityaddicts.freeuk.com\/aatrainingtips.htm\">Agility Addicts<\/a> website. I&#8217;m going to start asking him to do it on staircases at home over the next month or so, and then I&#8217;ll see if I can find an A-Frame\/dogwalk, somewhere!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also sacrificed some of my stick-in weaves to Dylan, and have bent them at the base so that they&#8217;re V-Weaves. Kim learnt to weave with v-weaves, and I&#8217;d like to do the same with Dylan, although I&#8217;m probably going to use the channel-weaves as well. At the moment the weaves are bent almost flat, and there are only four of them, and so far I&#8217;ve just let Dylan have a sniff and walked him through a few times. He&#8217;s certainly not going to have the same problems as Kim (whose legs are too short for the left-right pattern!) and he enjoyed himself.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <strong>Dylan&#8217;s 1st Birthday<\/strong> this Saturday. I can&#8217;t believe he&#8217;s a year old now! I&#8217;m still in no particular rush to get him out on the circuit for his 18 month birthday. I think I&#8217;ll aim to have him running at the Northern Winter Series over the winter season, with his first show this time next year at the first EMDAC Summer Series show &#8212; April 19th\/20th, so it&#8217;ll be the day before his 2nd birthday, but it&#8217;s all a bit provisional depending on how his training goes and how Kim is doing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather has cooled down a bit so Dylan and I have been topping up on our training outdoors. We&#8217;ve cracked target training &#8212; he runs to the target and downs on it whilst touching it with his nose, which is exactly what I was looking for! After a long discussion with various people (part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-dylan","category-training"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}