Two for Dancer, Two for Elly
Sunday, December 30th, 2007 Posted in trials | Comments OffI had a lovely time with Dancer and Elly at the Rainier Agility Team's CPE trial this weekend. It was our first experience at CPE, and I found it a great venue in which to get Dancer a bit more ...
Elly finally catches a rodent
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 Posted in Photos, dog park days, poodles | Comments OffI took Elly and Dancer to the puppy park today. Elly loves to dig holes, trying desperately to catch the rodents that live in them. I'm pretty sure they're voles, but it's hard to tell. Today she got especially involved ...
The Solstice
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 Posted in not poodles | Comments OffThankfully, the winter solstice is past for another year. I hate the weeks just before the winter solstice, as the daylight hours get shorter and shorter and the nights go on and on. You wake up at 6 AM and it's ...
Poodle Necks
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 Posted in knitting, poodles | Comments OffI made these neck warmers for Guy (Dancer's brother) and Sophie, who live in Denver.
Me and My Big Mouth
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 Posted in dog park days, not poodles | Comments OffI've got to learn NOT to tell people when their dogs are fat. I really couldn't stand it, though. She was talking about how she needed to put a little more weight on her already overweight lab. So I told her ...
Dogs and Their Choices
Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in poodles | Comments OffI think dogs definitely have strong feelings about what they do. My Elly is never happier than when she is tracking a rabbit or squirrel, even though she's never caught one. You can see it in her whole body for hours ...
The joy of agility…
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in poodles, training, trials | Comments OffCheryl asked me to write a brief bio for her web site, since I'll be teaching the fundamentals course again starting in January. It wasn't particularly brief, I'm afraid, but oh well. Anyway, it got me thinking about why I do ...
Where you’re looking matters….
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in training | Comments OffI've been working with both dogs on their contacts. (I'm always working on contacts.) I've made this observation: if I look at the end of the contact--stare at it while running--the dog hits it, every time. If I look up at ...
Predator!
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in chondrosarcoma | Comments OffI've had an interesting experience the last few days. I was rejected by an online (Yahoo) chondrosarcoma survivors support group.Why? Well, I didn't want to provide my phone number. To an online support group. Apparently, the moderator feels the need to protect ...
Contact Training
Monday, December 10th, 2007 Posted in training | Comments OffI started serious training of contacts with Dancer today, finally. It took me forever to decide what kind of contacts I wanted. I'd hoped for a running contact but wasn't getting one once she got excited about the contacts. I ...