Under the Fence AGAIN
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted in poodles | Comments OffRemember what I said about not letting Elly off-leash ever again? Miss Elinor Grubby Paws managed to unsnap her collar in her frenzy to track something out there in the dark! Fortunately, she had TWO collars on, the one I ...
Lighted Collars!
Sunday, October 21st, 2007 Posted in poodles | Comments OffI was so terrified by Thursday night's dog chase through the darkness that I have two new collars and a single new rule: don't take the dogs out without their lighted collars. They can even be set to flash, which ...
OFA Hips–A Comparison of Dancer and Elly
Sunday, October 21st, 2007 Posted in poodles, training, trials | Comments OffOFA stands for the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals, which is dedicated to improving the skeletal structure of companion animals. (This is their web site: http://www.offa.org/) They provide, for a fee, an evaluation of hip xrays. They recommend to breeders that ...
More About Physical Therapy
Friday, October 19th, 2007 Posted in chondrosarcoma, knee rehab | 1 Comment »I have a love-hate relationship with the process of physical therapy. While I acknowledge that it is helpful, I hate the time I spend doing it. It's HOURS, twice a week. It takes almost two hours from when I arrive ...
In Which Miss Elinor Makes Sure I NEVER Let Her Off-Leash Again
Friday, October 19th, 2007 Posted in poodles | 1 Comment »We had a windstorm last night. The first of the 2007-2008 rainy season. Wind and rain and all that good stuff. A few very brief power failures, although I gather that some areas are still out. Not us, thankfully. I ...
Motion… Redux
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 Posted in poodles, training | 1 Comment »Well, yesterday we worked Dancer some more with the rocker board. She got pretty comfortable with it, and was even offering to get on it, rather than having to be lured. But I can see it's going to be a ...
Motion
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 Posted in dog park days, poodles, training | Comments OffFour days of agility training might actually be too much. It's Wednesday morning and I can still feel the soreness in some of the muscles I overworked over the weekend. Yesterday Dancer stepped on one side of a piece of ...
It’s 2 AM
Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in poodles, training | Comments OffIt's 2 AM and I am exhausted after four days of agility seminar--the C-Spot-Win Camp--but the curly girlies had to go out--I think Dancer had too many treats over the four days of camp--and so I'm up. Dancer did very ...
Training Movement with the Rocker Board
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in training | Comments OffWe went back to the beginning with Dancer today and started with a rocker board. I did some clicker shaping until she was willing to put one paw on it; she was so careful, she'd lift her paw and gently ...
John Q. Public and Poodles
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in poodles | Comments OffBefore I got poodles, I had a nice dog, Lily, whom I adopted from the Humane Society. She was black and looked like a black lab/golden retriever mix, or maybe she was a flatcoat. She had her idiosyncrasies, and it ...