Archives: June2008

• Weekend in Review

  Well, we survived! I think I tried to cram too much into the last three days, but we managed it somehow. Thank goodness for a really patient husband! Friday we went down to Marysvale to meet with our obedience instructor and our friend for an afternoon of training. It was so much fun! The day flew by. I didn’t even really how quickly time was getting away from us till we looked at the clock and realized it was already [...]

• Agility Class

  Last night was the first night in a month or maybe longer that we’ve been to an agility class. It was a nice evening here, and the dogs were happy for the chance to go somewhere and do something since I’d been busy with other things all day. Zoe loved the course that was set up last night, she ran it clean and fast and well…she’s just so much fun for me to run. She’s my girl! It’s so nice [...]

• Hectic Week!

  This week is really getting away from me quickly! It’s already Thurs. and I can’t even tell you how we got here. LOL I’ve got a boarder coming in to stay for a couple of nights today. He should be here this afternoon. I just love this dog. He a Rhodesian Ridgeback named Punjab. He is such a laidback mellow guy! He’s definitely one of my favorite boarders! Oh, but that reminds me….I’ve got to get to town and buy [...]

• Rogue’s Progress Report #3

  Well, Rogue is doing her dogwalk with my husband loading the target at the end nicely, even when he’s standing directly facing her. So last night we moved on to the teeter and repeated the same thing. I had him stand sideways again, not looking at her while she “hit” her target. She did pretty good. She had one bailoff, but when I turned and looked at Randy, he had moved to face her straight on again. No wonder she [...]

• This Should Prove Interesting

  Well, it’s possible that I’ve lost my mind completely, but it’s just too early to tell yet. One of my friends that I work with in the all-breed rescue here in town has asked me to come and attempt to teach her three dogs and her three girls some basic behaviors. That would call into question my sanity already, seeing that I’ve only ever trained my own dogs up to this point, but add to that fact, all the girls [...]

• Home From the Funmatch

  Well, it was a really nice day at the funmatch. The morning even started off really pretty with a beautiful sunrise.   The drive down was nice too, but I get tired when I drive by myself. We got there a little after 8:00 and got everything set up. We did agility first and Zoe did well. Here she is sitting in chair after her run…waiting for her treat and watching the dog behind her run the course. LOL She’s [...]

• Funmatch Tomorrow

  Well, we’re packing up the car tonight for the funmatch tomorrow. We’ll have to leave here about 6:30 in the morning to drive to Parowan, but it should be a fun day anyway. We’ll be doing agility for sure and they were talking about the possibility of offering some herding too, so I’m looking forward to it. Course, it’s supposed to be in the 90’s again tomorrow, so it’ll be hot, but still fun! I’ll take the camera and see [...]

• Training Went Well

  Well, tonight was a good night for training with Rogue. We worked on her doing a few obstacles ending the sequence with the dogwalk. Randy was standing at the bottom of the dogwalk to put a treat on the target after she “hit it” with her paw. Last night was the first time that we had both had time to work with her together in more than a week and when we tried this exercise, she was having difficulty staying [...]

• Teaching a Paw Target

  Well, the dogs and I have been working on some new targeting skills. I, like most people have taught the dogs a “touch” skill. Until Rogue, all my younger dogs did a typical nose bump of whatever the target was. LOL Leave it to Rogue to make me do a little more thinking! What a girl! When I asked for a “touch” with Rogue she would try to use her paws along with her nose. If she could get away [...]

• Rogue’s Progress Report #2

  I haven’t updated on Rogue’s progress for a while. My husband has been stuck at work a quite a bit lately, and with me being up at my parents for the last several days, and everything else…the training routine hasn’t been as steady as I’d like. We are still doing her mat work in the mornings, and she’s working on “Day 10? of the 15 days of Relaxation Protocols that we’re using. I’m obviously not just doing them for one [...]