Tags: obedience

• Twist’s Obedience Pictures

  So, there was a photographer at the Obedience trial in Idaho Falls, (which is really rare), and he got some cute pictures of Twist. I thought that I’d share them with everybody. Here’s Twist actually paying attention. Glad this was caught on film. LOL And the dumbell throw. I just love the expression on Twist’s face, and here’s the tricky part…see if you can find the dumbell in the picture. It’s there, somewhere…LOL And the final one. The broadjump. Maybe [...]

• USRVDTC Obedience Trial Day one

  Well, the conflicts between the rings for regular obedience and Rally worked out just fine. We were able to finish with Twist’s Open A obedience just in time for them to start the walk-throughs for Dare’s Rally class. Then, she was able to finish in time for us to be ready to go back in the ring for stays with Twist. Twist was qualifying today when we went in for stays. He was very distracted though so it wasn’t one [...]

• Training Challenge: On the Road

  My cold seems to be giving me a little break during the days now. Just recurring at night to keep me awake coughing, but I’m grateful for the improvement! In the meantime, I’ve had time to do some thinking. I know that one of the areas my training can use improvement is in taking the dogs to places away from home (other than classes), to help them generalize behaviors. For some of the dogs, it isn’t a huge problem, but [...]

• Too Many Options?

  So, there is discussion on one of the lists that I’m on about how entries/support in some of the various Obedience venues in Utah seems to be dwindling lately. Specifically in regards to ASCA and UKC obedience. The discussion seems to branching out into the other dog sports too though, including agility, and field trials. When Zoe and I first got involved in Agility we competed in NADAC/ASCA. It was a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere and we had enough trials within [...]

• Video from Obedience Trial

  Here are Twist’s videos. As usual it seems to take me a couple days to catch up once I get home. Anyway, this is the first day at the Sheltie Specialty. And here is day two.

• Twist on TV

  Ok, this is just really Twist’s week! He qualified again today, with a 190 and a 3rd place. I was really pleased that he was able to concentrate and work with all the distractions in there today. Just one more leg to go…might be a few months before we do another obedience trial though. Anyway, I got home and my husband and I were watching tv and a commercial comes on. My husband says, “that’s the boy”. Meaning, Twist was [...]

• Utah Sheltie Specialty

  I have such good news! Twist earned his first CDX leg today! Not only that, but he also took High in Trial today! I am so proud of my boy. He has come so far from the dog that we first brought home from the shelter 6 1/2 years ago. I would have thought you were crazy at that point if you had told me that he would be doing Obedience, and that he would have TWO High in Trials. [...]

• I Need Another 24 Hours

  It’s nearly 11 pm and I still don’t have everything ready that I need to get done before I leave in the morning for the Sheltie Specialty. Bleh. It wasn’t like I sat around all day reading noxycut review. Things just didn’t go smoothly today. On a good note though, I did get the dogs nails done and they are all clean and ready to go. We did get to the park and did some training with Raven and Twist. [...]

• Off and Running

  This week is off to a running start. I think I got lulled into a nice zone of relaxation after the stretching seminar this last weekend. Now it’s hit me…I only have today and tomorrow to get everything together to leave again for the Sheltie Specialty on Wednesday. LOL I have to finish getting the two prize baskets done that I agreed to make up for the Obedience trial. I can’t even remember what prizes they are for. High Scoring [...]

• Layla Update

  So, we went back up to my friend’s house to train today. I was hoping to see if we would have a repeat of last week, or if she’d be back to her normal self. So, same building, same people as last week, and just as I was hoping…the same little girl stopped by after school to visit with the dogs. The good news is that today, Layla was much more focused. She was still very, very noise sensitive today, [...]