Just a short note. I finally updated Jet’s Page here on my blog. It tells about how I found him, brought him here, and has some fun pictures too! I have pages about all the dogs. Though of course I don’t update them quite as much as I should. Anyway, have fun with Jet’s Page!
Well we finally got that big snow storm. It was not ‘that’ big snow storm that was predicted.. this one came almost a week later. LOL. Utah is so hard to predict. They usually get things wrong. This one happened on the weekend, which was nice. Less traffic. Most of it came down last Sunday. I went to Levi’s K9 Nose Work Class, then flyball practice. I took the Subaru Outback though, not the minivan. The Outback has AWD and… Continue reading
Our Lucy will be 12 years old in February. Last night when I was at flyball practice, I guess she had an episode of some kind. I wasn’t home but my husband was. And he was pretty upset I didn’t answer my phone. I’m so bad… I carry my phone, but I hardly ever check it. And I miss a lot of calls and texts. I didn’t know about it until I got home. He said that she seemed really… Continue reading
Well to all you’s folk out there that celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you have a happy day. We just go over to the parental unit’s house and eat and hang out and chat. I wish we could take the dogs with, but it’s really a human holiday and they would probably just be bored anyway. They have other ways of having a good time and celebrating things. And they usually involve pizza’s from Ma and Paws dog bakery. I may… Continue reading
I’m very proud of my 11 year old boy, Levi. When I ran him through this Rally course, I thought he was being goofy. But as usual, the video always looks better to me than it feels. I think he really was watching me a lot! I’m so proud of him. He got 3 Rally Novice Legs in ASCA for his ASCA-RN. He’s a good old boy. He had fun going out with his mom and working again. And he’s… Continue reading
I am just curious. I’ve heard it time and time again. When teaching a new dog agility, don’t teach sequencing. Start on short sequences not more than about six jumps (or obstacles) in a row. I don’t understand this and I’ll tell you why. Chase, my BC, is great at short sequences of about six to eight jumps. After that, I lose him. I can’t keep up with him and my brain starts getting fried. So all the time I… Continue reading
Tatum is such a goof. This is a picture of her squeezing her body into the Jet sized bed. We have this bed right by the heater vent. Jet loves it in the winter. And, apparently, so does Tatum. Levi and Tatum are always trying to squish themselves into small beds. Anyway Tatum did ASCA Rally last Saturday. She did good! I’ll get some video up soon. I don’t have the time at the moment… I just wanted to say… Continue reading
`Jet and Levi at the Park
So Levi and I went to our first K9 Nose Work class. It was fun! Levi was a dork. He thinks that barking at people gets him the most treats, so that’s what he spend most of his time doing. LOL. So I might modify the technique just a bit for him. 
Set him up for a bit more success so he understands the value of the boxes. Basically in the first class the teacher scattered a bunch of empty boxes around. And the dogs are supposed to find the value of the boxes themselves… well I like to give the dogs a bit more information at first. So I just used three boxes at home. And all of my dogs picked up that there are treats in a box pretty fast. Levi just needs to learn the value of the boxes, and he’ll do that pretty fast. Once he understands the idea.
I even did it with Lucy at home, our megaesophagus dog. She can eat treats once in a while as long as we feed her afterward and put her in her chair so the treats go down. She was the best at it. LOL but she is a treat maniac and any time she can find food, she will.
Chase was silly. He tried picking up a box in his mouth, like it was a dumbbell. 
Yup he’s too trained. LOL. So I had to jiggle the boxes more for him. He was finding the treats quickly though, so he’ll understand you just have to find the treats in the box. That’s it for now. He has a problem in Rally-Obedience too. He thinks he should interact with the signs. =P
Jet and Tatum also did good. Tatum wasn’t quite sure the boxes had any value at all. But she caught on. Jet was good from the get go, checking out those silly boxes on the floor.
I’ll work with them all more. Why not. Good thing to do in the winter and who knows who’ll be able to pass the test? Maybe even Lucy can! I should keep track of their progress in my Samsung phone to see how they are doing. But I usually get too lazy, and just have fun with it.
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