Tip Tail

So I’m working Sits and Downs with Jet and Tatum. As well as signals with Chase… which is similar, for utility obedience, but it’s all hand signals and no verbals. I want them all to have good verbals as well as hand signals. Their sits and downs are great on their own, but when [...]

Here is Chase’s Jumpers with Weaves run from last weekend. He did good, a couple of mistakes… I think I need to invest in buying a good quality triple jump. He takes it out. And we don’t have one so we need to work it.

It’s a good run. I wish Saturday would have gone [...]

Yup, he finally got a Q in AKC! Hehe… he’s been in Excellent for a while now, maybe even a year… I forget, it’s too depressing to keep close track. We have a hard time in excellent in AKC with the twisty courses. But we got a Q, so maybe we actually [...]

So, there’s an AKC agility trial this weekend that I’ve entered Chase in.  We’ll see if all our work with Stacey has paid off!  One thing I learned was… you do not have to be in perfect position to start signaling a front cross. But we need front cross work because I’m always behind Chase, [...]

Unfortunately, Chase is unhappy with our foster dog Titus. Chase doesn’t like other dogs very much… he has space issues and doesn’t like dogs getting into his space. He gives off the weirdest signals. And Titus doesn’t know how to interpret them so he just stares at Chase. And no matter how [...]

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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Well Chase didn’t qualify, though we kinda thought he should…. the judge NQd him because he whined for a minute on his five minute out of sight down stay. Which really isn’t failing half the exercise. But oh well. He did really well anyway. And it was a hard place for him because [...]

So this weekend is it, Chase’s first try at Open Obedience. I have him entered in ASCA Obedience, Open A, and I sure hope it goes well. I’m pretty darn nervous. But in lessons he’s been doing great. So as long as all the training holds, and he remembers what he’s doing, [...]

Chase and Levi love to go jogging. I still wish that I loved to just run and run like my dogs to. But I don’t. It’s more of a chore than anything… LOL. But this weekend I decided to start jogging again and pulled out their harnesses and off we went.

I went on [...]

I have to admit… as much as I love the dog sports, it’s nice to have some snow outside on the ground… it’s a good excuse to stay home and not compete or train quite as much as I have been. Summer just gets too full of dog sports sometimes and I need a break.  [...]