Tags: Layla

• Walking With Friends

  As usual, I’m about 4 or 5 days behind in posting pictures or video. We had friends here visiting last week, and we went on a really fun walk on Sat., but I’m just getting around to posting now. We didn’t go as far across the country or anything, just up the mountains nearby. That’s probably good though, because we didn’t find ourselves needing any Chicago auto repair for this trip. Here is a picture of Layla, Dare and Maizey [...]

• Distance Drills With Motion

  So, today’s drills proved to be quite a bit more difficult than the previous ones. Isn’t that always the way it works when you start adding motion and a little speed to things? What was once so clear and simple can turn into a real mess. All in all though, the girls did really well. On her first run through, Raven apparently thought that my hand signal for the “out jump” looked enough like the obedience hand signal to drop [...]

• More Distance Drill Stuff

  Today I thought I’d set up a different obstacle to work on the second drill some more with the girls. I was lazy as usual, and I thought that I’d cheat a bit. Instead of hauling out two different obstacles, I thought I’d make use of one with two ends. LOL Actually, I thought it would be a good idea anyway, since a lot of times you have to discriminate between ends of a tunnel on course, even when it’s [...]

• Distance Drill 2

  The part of the distance drills that we worked on today is adding a second obstacle into the picture. You start out with a second obstacle, they don’t have to be identical, but that was easiest for me today because I had the pvc jumps out of the lawn already. I didn’t do the greatest job of filming today but my options for setting up the tripod and not having it blow over in the aweful wind were a bit [...]

• Distance Drill 1

  So, if my memory and notes serve me correctly…the first distance drill only involved one obstacle. In this case I used a jump, but I also remember him having several stations set up and one would be with a tunnel, one with a tire, etc. So, I should probably make a point of switching obstacles out so that the dogs generalize what we’re doing to any obstacle. Anyway, back to the drill. It just involves setting the dog almost in [...]

• Improving Distance Skills

  After Zoe managed to complete her Elite Gamblers title this last weekend I got to thinking…maybe improving her distance skills wouldn’t be impossible after all. I keep putting it off with her because she’s older and I just know that teaching her new skills turns into such a fight sometimes. Especially since she’s an opinionated girl that thinks that she knows how everything is done already. LOL But the way she’s running, she’s not ready for the retirement home, checker [...]

• Sheltie Ears

  Everyone knows that if you’re looking for those appropriately tipped, beautifully groomed sheltie ears, you won’t find it here. Twist and Layla both have prick ears, Raven has these really heavy, almost Aussie looking ears and Zoe has one tipping and one not most of the time. The only thing I can say in my defense is that they are all brushed and you won’t find any mats in those ears. You can see what I mean in this picture [...]

• More of Layla Jump Training

  Ok, so here is the promised video of the jump training Layla and I were working on today. It’s serpentines and threadles. She’s doing really well. I can see in the video that I probably need to improve my timing and make my cues a little bit better, but she’s doing a good job responding to me regardless. LOL Now we’re loading up the car to take Twist and Raven over to my friends house. I’m going to set up [...]

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  So, I’ll start off with “the good”. We got to spend yesterday at another Stacy Peardot-Goudy workshop. The weather was pretty nice in the morning…while I was auditing. That all changed though as soon as the afternoon session was about to begin. A rain and hailstorm rolled in and stayed the rest of the afternoon. Thankfully, they had the workshop at a location with the option of moving inside a barn if needed. I was so grateful for that! Regardless [...]

• We’ve Had Company!

  So, it’s been a busy week so far. We had a friend come visit and she brought her adorable girl Maizey along with her. We spent the week taking walks, doing a little bit of training, taking pictures in the mountains, visiting my parents farm and just relaxing in the evenings! I think we talked about every topic pertaining to pets that you can possibly think of. Maizey and Layla hit it off like they’d known each other forever. Here’s [...]