Tuesday 18 March 2008
Sunday 2 March 2008
Contact problems
Dad's been having a bit of a problem with Bex' contacts at the moment. Bex has no trouble still doing a nose touch when she's in 2o2o, but she does not recognise that she's meant to stop if she does a full contact with no target. So going up the field later to backtrain with no target.
For some reason the blog won't let me paste the video embed code from youtube, so this is Bex at 17mths.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leRVmnDwHhA
I'll try and get another update of her doing seesaws in a couple of weeks when hopefully she's made some progress!
For some reason the blog won't let me paste the video embed code from youtube, so this is Bex at 17mths.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leRVmnDwHhA
I'll try and get another update of her doing seesaws in a couple of weeks when hopefully she's made some progress!
Thursday 14 February 2008
5 weeks to go!
OOps forgot about this blog!
Only 5 weeks until Bex's first show...
she's doing fab and has been on upright weaves for the last 2 weeks, and is getting brilliant entries. Dad is able to recall her through them, and send her in from way back, and cross behind etc, and front cross after them, so really pleased with how she's doing.
Seesaw still needs a bit of work but that'll come.
Contacts are good, fading the target away and occasionally do it with no target and she still nose touches which is great.
She's doing good pull throughs, box work and gorgeous snakes, and still nice go-ons. Dad had a training day a few weeks ago with Dave Munnings and it was fab (although I preferred it mainly coz I got to watch 3 of the Gunran pups training!)
Here's a vid of her weaving the last time on V weaves before we switched to uprights.
Only 5 weeks until Bex's first show...
she's doing fab and has been on upright weaves for the last 2 weeks, and is getting brilliant entries. Dad is able to recall her through them, and send her in from way back, and cross behind etc, and front cross after them, so really pleased with how she's doing.
Seesaw still needs a bit of work but that'll come.
Contacts are good, fading the target away and occasionally do it with no target and she still nose touches which is great.
She's doing good pull throughs, box work and gorgeous snakes, and still nice go-ons. Dad had a training day a few weeks ago with Dave Munnings and it was fab (although I preferred it mainly coz I got to watch 3 of the Gunran pups training!)
Here's a vid of her weaving the last time on V weaves before we switched to uprights.
Thursday 22 November 2007
Training 22nd November
No lesson for me today as the field is too wet :-( we did the V weaves twice yesterday and twice today which apparently I was very good at - they are getting very closed up now, I reckons I'll be doing them almost straight by the time I'm 15 months! Missed my lesson today tho, its such fun, all we do is playyy playyy playyy, and I get to chase Lucy the collie around too, which is even more fun!!
Training with Ian Smith 18th November
We had a training day with Ian Smith today, I wuz really good! Dad wouldn’t let me do the weavies as he says I can’t do the proper ones yet, I am still learning on the V-ones. I am glad about this, as they look difficult!
I did my aframe and dog walk really fast although dad is a bit annoying as he wont clicker me straight away and makes me hold my nose touch for longer rather than doing lots of fast pecks! I did the seesaw as well, it is only the 4th time I have done it. I love the seesaw, it’s one of my favourite obstacles! Dad gets someone to hold the end and then they call me holding the end up waving some treats and I dash up the seesaw, I eat all the treats and then try and dangle my paws over the edge to make them tip it faster! Honestly, all this fuss about the seesaw tipping, not even a big deal!
We also did some box work which I haven’t done before and dad kept saying ‘through’ to pull me through this little gap, I don’t know this command so kept ignoring him as there was a tunnel next to it which was much more fun! He gave up in the end and used my name – at last I realised where we wuz meant to be going!
Oh and we did some V-weavies yesterday and Char says we need to practise more as apparently we've been slacking a bit recently, her and Dad keep talking about these 'competitions' that apparently I am going to be doing next year. They sound like great fun, although dads getting a bit nervous about everyone saying 'you're gonna enjoy running her next year'! HA, thats what they think, more like, I am gonna have fun running him!!!
I did my aframe and dog walk really fast although dad is a bit annoying as he wont clicker me straight away and makes me hold my nose touch for longer rather than doing lots of fast pecks! I did the seesaw as well, it is only the 4th time I have done it. I love the seesaw, it’s one of my favourite obstacles! Dad gets someone to hold the end and then they call me holding the end up waving some treats and I dash up the seesaw, I eat all the treats and then try and dangle my paws over the edge to make them tip it faster! Honestly, all this fuss about the seesaw tipping, not even a big deal!
We also did some box work which I haven’t done before and dad kept saying ‘through’ to pull me through this little gap, I don’t know this command so kept ignoring him as there was a tunnel next to it which was much more fun! He gave up in the end and used my name – at last I realised where we wuz meant to be going!
Oh and we did some V-weavies yesterday and Char says we need to practise more as apparently we've been slacking a bit recently, her and Dad keep talking about these 'competitions' that apparently I am going to be doing next year. They sound like great fun, although dads getting a bit nervous about everyone saying 'you're gonna enjoy running her next year'! HA, thats what they think, more like, I am gonna have fun running him!!!
Training 14th November
This is my (Bex) blog, all about me (great eh!) and my training that I am having to teach daddy.
We had a lesson today and did lots of work on my directional commands and dad had to use his aeroplane arms to flick me over some jumps (I tried very hard and think dad was impressed!). We also did a dogwalk next to the tunnel and I had to pick which one depending on what command dad was saying. I kept going in the tunnel to start with until dad realised he was using the aframe command, duhhh!! Once he used the ‘walk walk walk’ command I went up it straight away!
Dad found the directional stuff very hard as everything comes in threes with him, left-left-left, right-right-right or go-go-go so things get very confusing! He got very excited when I went over the last jump having done the right course for a change (HA!) and rather than throw my ball for me decided to drop kick it into the next field! When will he learn!
We had a lesson today and did lots of work on my directional commands and dad had to use his aeroplane arms to flick me over some jumps (I tried very hard and think dad was impressed!). We also did a dogwalk next to the tunnel and I had to pick which one depending on what command dad was saying. I kept going in the tunnel to start with until dad realised he was using the aframe command, duhhh!! Once he used the ‘walk walk walk’ command I went up it straight away!
Dad found the directional stuff very hard as everything comes in threes with him, left-left-left, right-right-right or go-go-go so things get very confusing! He got very excited when I went over the last jump having done the right course for a change (HA!) and rather than throw my ball for me decided to drop kick it into the next field! When will he learn!
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