December 2009
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Private Lesson
We had a private lesson today with Claudia. Finally they got to have some activity — we’ve been out of classes for 2 weeks and it’s been too snowy outside to get any training in.
We ran one course. It wasn’t terribly difficult, but it was quite technical.
We actually did a lot of work on technical skills — discriminations, queuing deceleration and turns, extension...
Happy 18 Months!
The puppy is 18 months today! Hard to believe how fast he’s growing up!
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Riot's First Agility Trial
Riot, Cisco, and I are up in Cleveland, Ohio for the Crown Classic Dog show. I decided to enter him no realizing exactly how chaotic it was going to be — big noisy building with lots of dogs and people and noise.
Day 1
Riot seemed to have a few ring nerves this morning in JWW. He was looking all around and sniffing the ground and I had a hard time getting his attention. Because of this,...
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Rock star Riot (aka last week of Handling 2)
I love running this dog! He’s just so much fun to run and running him feels good — I don’t feel frantic, I’m getting more confidence with him, and he always seems like he’s having fun.
Our last class consisted of a course that had 13 jumps — no tunnels, no contacts. It was a mixture of winged and wingless with a double, I handled it with two front crosses and a...