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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 [...]

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’ve been doing lots of training with Jet… I guess I should post more about it. I’ve been posting up little video clips on my YouTube account.
Here is one thing we are working on. I call it the Feetz Box. I am not calling it a perch box because I have two other [...]

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, [...]

I am so proud of Chase! He did awesome last weekend at the AKC obedience trial. He got his CD in three days! They had three different judges and he qualified all three days! His score was good, too. He had some no-sits which is 3 points off for each. So had he sat every [...]

First off, this picture is of me sleeping on the dog shelf! LOL my husband made a nice comfy bed for the top of it, so me, Muffit and Chase piled on, while Lucy and Levi got the main part of the couch.
And now… Yeah, it’s hard to retire a dog isn’t it? It [...]

Too many dogs have been trained in the old-school way for obedience. Well, mine are not! They are trained in the new-school way of fun and play and having a good time. And I think it shows.This is Levi in Open A last Saturday. He did so great! I did have to work to [...]

I am so thrilled with Chase’s first obedience trial! Levi, Chase and I went to an ASCA obedience trial today. I was nervous… I always get more nervous in obedience than in agility. But the boys did great. Levi got his first open Q… his first leg towards his CDX! I was happy, though [...]

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 [...]