In our spare time, I would take Canon out in the field near the trial building and play with her. They had the most beautiful field of blooming clover so I shot some pictures of her out in the field.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Back from Decatur Trial
We don't have to worry about making room for the awards on the shelf! But we did learn a lot about our running at this level. Cheddar and I are very new at running the excellent courses and we are always pretty close on out qualifying, but we have not Q'd yet. We are making course time and that is a huge improvement.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
In the Swim
Canon is having a blast swimming! I am going to post this video, but I am working on making it fabulous to put on YouTube.
April 30th - Retrieving!!!!
Today we met with a group at the big park that does Hunt testing and we are going to practice with them more regularly. There is a hunt test trial here this weekend so they were out in full force.
Canon will do this in trials and while Cheddar would love to do it, she has never preferred to go in the water over her knees, so she could not do it.
Canon picked up this thing after she runs to get a bumper that she will hold the bumper in her mouth really high with her nose in the air and run circles around me or run back and forth in front of me with it and she won't give it to me. This is no doubt a bad thing. I am working with her on a long line where I throw her a bumper and send her to get it and then pull her to me on the long line. It is helping a lot.
We met with the group and it was led by a really nice man, we were at a small pond and I got Canon out of the van and she ran and jumped into the water. They all saw she was not afraid to get in. I then held her on the shore and the man tossed a series of bumpers into the water and Canon swam very fast and with lots of spirit out to get the bumpers and I danced on the shore with a bumper and she returned to me. She did a great job. She is learning!
this morning when she brought me her usual items she retrieves while I read my email, the TV remote, my house phone, and my cell phone, I asked her to sit and she sat very nicely and then I asked for a drop and she dropped each one in my hand! I think she is putting it together.
At one time, one of the other ladies brought out a real duck for the dogs to fetch. We threw it about 15 feet for Canon to go get and I wish i had my camera for the return. She brought that duck back in her mouth like she knew what she was doing. After that, she was a little mouthy with the duck. It was great.
We missed our agility practice because we were late getting out to the field and everyone had gone by then.
We are off to an agility trial today as soon as I can get packed and go on my way.
Canon will do this in trials and while Cheddar would love to do it, she has never preferred to go in the water over her knees, so she could not do it.
Canon picked up this thing after she runs to get a bumper that she will hold the bumper in her mouth really high with her nose in the air and run circles around me or run back and forth in front of me with it and she won't give it to me. This is no doubt a bad thing. I am working with her on a long line where I throw her a bumper and send her to get it and then pull her to me on the long line. It is helping a lot.
We met with the group and it was led by a really nice man, we were at a small pond and I got Canon out of the van and she ran and jumped into the water. They all saw she was not afraid to get in. I then held her on the shore and the man tossed a series of bumpers into the water and Canon swam very fast and with lots of spirit out to get the bumpers and I danced on the shore with a bumper and she returned to me. She did a great job. She is learning!
this morning when she brought me her usual items she retrieves while I read my email, the TV remote, my house phone, and my cell phone, I asked her to sit and she sat very nicely and then I asked for a drop and she dropped each one in my hand! I think she is putting it together.
At one time, one of the other ladies brought out a real duck for the dogs to fetch. We threw it about 15 feet for Canon to go get and I wish i had my camera for the return. She brought that duck back in her mouth like she knew what she was doing. After that, she was a little mouthy with the duck. It was great.
We missed our agility practice because we were late getting out to the field and everyone had gone by then.
We are off to an agility trial today as soon as I can get packed and go on my way.
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