One fine day Review 37: Skills: Heeling - Figure 8's, running away from him and calling in to heel, tiny bit of backups to straighten him out, heads up heeling, sit/stand at heel. All the little bits and pieces, practicing to make better and better.Durations - 35 sec sit. Crate - oh Fudge/Duck/expletive of your …
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Gardener, writer, and crocheter. Pagan, a husband, two kids and a dog
Midweek 37
Mat, 60 seconds Skills: Week 37MonTueWedThuFriWeek-endHeeling and obedienceCone-to-ConeDistanceDistanceCone-to-ConeDistanceDurationsMat - okSettleCrateSitDownSettleLazy LeashStep 1 - ok1111ComeStep 3: up to 15 m familyStep 4:leashStep 4: leashStep 4 familyStep 4familyvarious proofing Heeling - practicing around the cones, and figure 8's. It's just about building up reinforcement history. Using a hand touch to get him into position while I was …
Garden games and hamburger feelings
https://youtu.be/vSe6CYJYtZw The good stuff (with thanks to husband behind the camera)! Particularly the move into heel at the third point is beautiful. Review 36: The agility event this weekend got cancelled - understandably, but sadly - due to an outbreak of some sort of (possibly) contagious gut disease virus among dogs in Norway. Mostly in …
Folks on Friday week 36
His resource guarding is a bit at a standstill. Started working Leave It on items on the floor. There was no real improvement regarding visitors. Some of that was on us; not taking the time and effort to do more than a couple of training sessions, but just putting him 'away' on the balcony or …
Thursday Topic – rally revisited (part 1)
It's two months since I finished my rally topic series. Fenris has grown since then (at least mentally!), we have done major work on his heeling and synchronisation since then, and personally, I think it would be fun to see how things are going. If part of the practice before an actual event, is to …
Minor progress report midweek 36
Pwomise. Topic coming tomorrow Thursday. We are revisiting rally-skills. Plan Week 36: Heeling, start right turnDurations up to 45 secSettle/excite up to 10 secFocus and Zen 2Come 2 MonTueWedThuFriWeek-endHeelingCone-to-ConeRight turnsRight turnsCone-to-ConeRight turnsDurationsMatSettleCrateSitDownSettleFocus and ZenFocus outsideZenFocus outsideZenFocus outsideComeStep 1 advanced: 3 m outsideStep 2: 3 m for leashStep 2 advanced: Family 3 mStep 3: working up …
September overview! (And the weekly stuff)
This is kinda long, but I haz thoughts, and some thoughts need a bigger picture. My favourite tin can. Review August: Muzzle - done one fairly successful session, in addition to using it at the vet. People - well. He stacks easily, and some things are worse than others, but he can also come to …
Known and unknown issues
Folks on Friday week 35 Things we never knew we never knew... Umbrellas! Apparantly I have never before opened one in Fenris' presence! Where we live rain usually comes sideways, so raincoats are the default equipment, but Wednesday night was warm, the rain poured buckets and kittens and dogs, and we were just going out …
Durations and downstays
Midweek 35 New monthly doggie-box arrived this week. It included a portable water-bowl (silicon, can be pushed flat), several new and interesting treats, and a Kong 'kazoo' toy. Sturdy plastic, low noise, good to chew, isn't going to break just by looking at it (unlike the Dogman brand which I'm quickly learning to dislike). Using …
Agility – learn with me!
Tuesday Topic, week 35 The subheading here is 'learn with me' - because I am a complete novice at this! I have done some reading (of course), including Agility Right From the Start, by Bertilsson and Johnson Vegh, practiced some foundational groundwork like wrapping around cones, cavalletti, and moving under and over stuff in the …
Tales from the Apupcalypse aka My First Dog aka Fenris 