Tip Tail

Well I am very happy with Jet’s Feetz box!  He’s doing so well. I’m teaching him this so that he’ll get a good ‘In’ for obedience. Where he swings his rear end into heel position on a verbal cue. And his body will stick to mine for a really nice heel while we are heeling.

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When training the dogs I use a heck of a lot of treats. I try to use toys too, and Chase is my only dog that really is good at loving the toys to the point that they are a good reward for him. And he can switch back and forth between treats [...]

Winter is for obedience… or so it has been for the last year or so. It’s hard to get out and do agility or flyball so we work inside and work on obedience. Chase breezed through his CD in both AKC and ASCA and so we are training him up for Open and Utility.
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I try never to take things from my dogs. It can really make them play keep-away and hide-the-bones and other things that we don’t really want with the dogs. Instead of taking anything from my dogs I will trade them. For another toy, or a treat, or a game of tug or play [...]

One of the things I don’t have any faith in whatsoever in agility is retraining contacts.
I realize that sometimes you start training them one way and it doesn’t really work out for that dog, so you think maybe it’d be better to train another way. Or else maybe you start out with a Four on [...]

Oh boy, I have not been training as much as I should… as much as I want to. I’ve been too busy trialing and then being too tired to do much of anything. Flyball was great last weekend. I have this coming weekend off… well, if you can consider a flyball demo, agility and [...]

More pictures from the flyball tournament! LOL but this one is not of flyball, but of Tatum and Chase playing. After the tournament was over we got to relax and the dogs got to run and play. I love to let them run and play as I think they need to relax and burn off [...]

Teaching the Heel has always been difficult for me. Plus, it is what Novice Obedience is all about!  Ugh.
So it’s time to teach Tatum to heel. And I want her to have a nice solid fun heeling that she will do even without treats. Ha! It’s a challenge with this girl, because she [...]

I am so thrilled! I took Tatum and Muffit out to the local agility barn today and Tatum did so great!
She is a maniac on the A-Frame! Well, no, not a maniac, LOL, but she’s fast and not afraid at all. I thought she might be afraid of the contacts and I’m so glad [...]

Do you track your training… or your competition? I don’t, really. I know I know, I should.  But I don’t.  I used to write down every run in competition, good or bad, Q or NQ.  But I gave that up because it was one of those things I was obsessive about and then burned myself [...]