Documenting the life and times of a Border Collie mutt
Late with this one - probably means there won't be a blog this weekend, but a longer at the end of the month instead. Helping daddy cook at the cottage. Agility So the course is over now. We have a half-decent foundation - what Susan Garrett calls consciousness (1. of 5 layers) - but there's …
We have been on holiday for a week, while Fenris was at the doggy hotel. He was fairly anxious at being placed there this time - apparantly he'd forgotten he liked it six months ago. The review is from the week before. https://youtu.be/PNbPG81pg4I Agility Video response: I did end up sending in a video question …
Since I get the new homework on Monday afternoons, I guess I might as well have that as the new posting schedule for a little while. There are a fair amount of failures in these videos. This is hard work for both of us - getting the cues and body language correct for me, and …
Agility Collecting to side/heel (R/L slowing down). We have expanded from on the flat, to over an 8 or 10” jump, and added a distance of up to 4 meters between dog and jump. We have also started on angling my position. Fenris is great with both the stay and the coming, he no longer …
So - the first week of agility work! This seems to be something Fenris is willing to put his heart into. He is smiling, eager, having a working focus. On the other hand, he is also genuinely tired out by it! Solid, repeating jumping is exhausting, if you're just used to bounding around on a …
Signal boosting.
General - he seems moody. Tuesday he utterly refused to go on walks with the teenage son, and had several bouts of resource guarding me from the pre-teen daughter. (He also did number two several times, so it might be a physical discomfort thing that made him less amenable to other stuff.) Today he was …
Review week 4, plan week 5, 2020. First a long walk, then snuggles and chewbone. Awesome obedience: Distance work - I set up a target stick in a box. (Punched a hole in the lid, and added a jar inside for extra stability.) Our first small session I held the whole thing, to make it …
Review week 3, plan week 4, 2020. Toy, treats and daddy Awesome obedience: Coming to heel in front of the mirror, to check for posture and straightness. Discovered that if he's on my right side, and I'm standing very close to the mirror, he gets really confused, because he's used to moving across my front …
Social obedience class: I am very impressed with Fenris' behaviour at the obedience course. We focused on heeling figure eights around cones, to work on his position in left and right turns, as well as my own posture and body language. He succeeded in keeping his nose up for almost a complete '8', which is …
Tales from the Apupcalypse aka My First Dog aka Fenris 