October 2009
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Contacts Practice
Our contacts are coming along. I took the boys over to ACA to work contacts for a little while this afternoon. Riot nailed all of his contacts in his first working session.
After I worked Cisco, and brought Riot out for his second session, he was a bit more amped. I wrapped him around a jump and he took the dog walk without me giving him a command. He completely blew off the contact. I’m...
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Last Night of Classes
Last night was Riot’s last Contacts & Weaves and Handling 2 Classes.
Contacts and Weaves
In contacts and weaves we practiced measuring since I (along with a few others) requested practice. Fortunately Riot should probably measure under 22 inches. We were getting between 21.5” and 22.25” depending on how wiggly and relaxed he was. He is taller than I thought he was going to...
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Class Week 5
In Contacts and Weaves we spent a lot of time dissecting his contacts problem. He’s got a great dog walk and teeter when he’s on the left, but on the right, he’s stopping a few feet short of the bottom. Eventually we got him driving to the bottom. The a-frame he was more hesitant on than usual. He was pausing at the top and driving towards the edges on his way down. Overall I was...
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Our Weekend Off
We had no dog events this weekend and nothing planned.
It was mostly a low key weekend, but we worked the teeter and did some board work on Saturday and today we threw some bumpers. For a dog that doesn’t always want to bring them back, he sure does have a love for the game.
Up until now I’ve thrown only three bumpers and quit with Riot as not to overdo it. Tonight, since he was so...
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Week 4
Highlights of contacts and weaves: rockin’ 12 weave poles, fabulous grid work, and awesome table, decent dog walk. Low lights: we still need lots of work on contacts. tunnel under dog walk == scary. Introduction to the broad jump — needs some work.
Handling 2 I thought was going to be easy in comparison to past weeks. All the exercises were box exercises, but we had our fair share of...
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Making a Liar Out of Me
I’ve mentioned before that a lot of times if we have trouble with something, we go back to it another day and Riot has it figured out. Well we had trouble with serpentines in handling 1, we had trouble with them when I tried to fix them in our backyard, and we had trouble with them when we saw them in handling 2. If you had seen us today, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you we were...
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Field Training
Today was the PVGRC’s field training. Riot actually brought back a bumper on land!!!! This is the first time he’s brought back a bumper at a field training day.
He brought the first bumper back on a short mark which we made shorter. The second mark was longer. I probably should have shortened it up more, but I didn’t. He ran out to the bumpers multiple times, but failed to bring...
