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.<\/p>\n
Yesterday he found the cone-pile<\/a>. 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.)<\/p>\n So yesterday I got the mini-dogwalk out, thinking we could maybe work on fixing that creepy<\/a> contact<\/a> 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!<\/p>\n 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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/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":[4,12,19,20],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-dylan","category-kim","category-mollie","tag-contacts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-4M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![cone-pile<\/a>. 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.)<\/p>\nSo yesterday I got the mini-dogwalk out, thinking we could maybe work on fixing that creepy<\/a> contact<\/a> 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!<\/p>\nWe 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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 […]<\/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":[4,12,19,20],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-dylan","category-kim","category-mollie","tag-contacts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-4M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.allproducts.com\/sports\/unique\/03-s.jpg\"){kind=link}