Wednesday
30 April 2008
Casey goes over a stile on our morning walk. There is a gap underneath which Ruby uses but Casey prefers to go over the top.
Tuesday
29 April 2008
Casey and Ruby hunting rabbits. They are convinced that if they wait long enough the rabbit will come back out of the hole into their waiting jaws. I hasn't happened so far but one day it might......
Sunday
27 April 2008
I went for a walk to Lawton Woods this morning. I didn't take my camera as it was raining. I will need to take it in a few days as the bluebells are almost out so want to get some pictures.
Did quite a lot of painting this afternoon. the dogs all kept really close by to supervise. Casey leaned against a wall and ended up with a pale green rear end. Good job there aren't any shows for a few days.
Did quite a lot of painting this afternoon. the dogs all kept really close by to supervise. Casey leaned against a wall and ended up with a pale green rear end. Good job there aren't any shows for a few days.
Saturday
26 April 2008
We went for a long walk this morning exploring new footpaths looking for new walks which aren't as muddy as our normal walk. I found a very nice route which went across some fields with plenty of rabbits to chase and then back along the canal. about 5 miles in total. I much prefer walks which go round in a circle rather than having to come back the same way I went so I will do this one again. And the dogs were pretty clean at the end of it.
I spent most of the afternoon in the garden tidying up. Saffy and Ruby were very interested in what I was doing especially the digging. I had to be very careful what I did with the spade as I usually had at least one and usually both with their noses right down by the spade checking what I was doing. I threw the weeds into the wheel barrow as I pulled them up and then the dogs would take them out and run off with them! I am sure they thought they were helping but I could have done without it.
After a while I noticed Saffy carrying something and putting it down and picking it up again and chewing at it. I thought I better check what it was as I didn't want her getting poisoned by eating anything poisonous. It wasn't poisonous but it was very revolting as it was a large wriggly worm! Eeughh!
I spent most of the afternoon in the garden tidying up. Saffy and Ruby were very interested in what I was doing especially the digging. I had to be very careful what I did with the spade as I usually had at least one and usually both with their noses right down by the spade checking what I was doing. I threw the weeds into the wheel barrow as I pulled them up and then the dogs would take them out and run off with them! I am sure they thought they were helping but I could have done without it.
After a while I noticed Saffy carrying something and putting it down and picking it up again and chewing at it. I thought I better check what it was as I didn't want her getting poisoned by eating anything poisonous. It wasn't poisonous but it was very revolting as it was a large wriggly worm! Eeughh!
Friday
25 April 2008
this morning on our walk I decided to concentrate on Saffy's movement for showing. She tends to put her head down and charge along a bit like a bull terrier, where she should move with a bit of grace and elegance. she will never be as light on her feet as Ruby as she is a completely different build but I decided that I ought to be able to improve it a bit so I clicked her for looking at a titbit and then started trotting and clicking for trotting with her head up. this did improve it quite a lot. I also need to work on left turns while doing this. She does come to a stop in quite a nice stand but then often swings her bum round so she is not straight, but has her bum to the judge so I am also practicing standing in one position.
Thursday
24 April 2008
no agility again this morning due to the fact that it poured down with rain but I did get some training done on our walk this morning. As I started this blog as a training diary maybe I better put some details of what I an training in it.
With all three girls i am concentrating on their drive for heelwork by having a titbit in my hand and moving forward at a speed where they have to really drive to catch up. I click as they catch up and treat and then off again and click as they catch me. It is quite hard work but we do a couple of times up and down the carpark. Each dog only gets a couple of goes but I have to do it three times so I tire before they do.
Saffy and Saffy are definitely driving forward more now. Dora doesn't need it as much but she likes it so we do it.
I am also working on getting them to keep their position near my leg consistently. Ruby is very sensitive to my movement and tends to move away from me just in case she gets trodden on. I am playing a game where I have her in the heel position and push her shoulder a little away from me and then click her for pushing back towards me. I am finding that she is really starting to like this and she is having fun with heelwork.
With all three girls i am concentrating on their drive for heelwork by having a titbit in my hand and moving forward at a speed where they have to really drive to catch up. I click as they catch up and treat and then off again and click as they catch me. It is quite hard work but we do a couple of times up and down the carpark. Each dog only gets a couple of goes but I have to do it three times so I tire before they do.
Saffy and Saffy are definitely driving forward more now. Dora doesn't need it as much but she likes it so we do it.
I am also working on getting them to keep their position near my leg consistently. Ruby is very sensitive to my movement and tends to move away from me just in case she gets trodden on. I am playing a game where I have her in the heel position and push her shoulder a little away from me and then click her for pushing back towards me. I am finding that she is really starting to like this and she is having fun with heelwork.
Wednesday
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